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Saturday, December 12, 2009

Search 7

Microsoft's Internet portal. Offers personalized content, with search, news, stocks, email, weather and access to other Microsoft content channels including MSNBC, Carpoint, Expedia (travel) and more.

MSN

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Delivers premiere content, enhanced security features, innovative communication tools, intuitive search and benefits to suit any type of user, whether on a high speed or dial-up connection.

AOL

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Crawler is a leading innovator of search technology and software applications focusing on rich, interactive experiences and safety for consumers and businesses. Crawler products are meticulously developed and are highly ranked by industry experts and users alike. Crawler is dedicated to the idea that everyone worldwide should have access to free software.

Crawler

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Offers a variety of travel services, including fare finder, hotel and car rental information, reservations, and destination information.

Travelocity

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Find in-depth local information for major cities around the world.

CitySearch

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Unbiased reviews of hotels, resorts and vacations

TripAdvisor

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Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Search 6

88 Miles
Ready To track Your Time? Set up projects and time, how long it
will take you to finish all tasks. Lots of great features on this
website!

88 Miles

iRex Iliad
This portable device that lets you read and write as you do on
paper everywhere you go!

iRex Iliad

ZAP Reader
Web based speed reading application that can train you to read
faster. There is nothing to install or download, simply copy &
paste text into the reader and choose your reading speed.

ZAP Reader

Waker Upper
Schedule wake-up phone calls. Lots of useful features

Waker Upper

Essential Pim
Need an Personal Information Manager? Make sure to use this
tool and you will save yourself hundreds of headaches.

Essential Pim

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Friday, December 4, 2009

Search 5

Add Imified to your friends/buddy list, and you can set yourself
reminders, add diary appointments, and post to your blogs and
all manner of other things.

Imified

Mind Meister
Are you familiar with mind mapping? If you are, you’ll love this
tool. This is a collaborative online mind mapping tool. Very
useful to work in projects. The only disadvantage is that the
format is not really "organic" that's why I prefer,

Imindmap

Mindmeister

You will thank me dearly for this resource. By far the coolest
service for private file collaboration and transfers. Add files by
email, send voice messages from phone, etc.

Drop.io

Spinvox's technology converts voicemails and memos into text
messages or emails, with surprising accuracy. Set up your
mobile to receive voicemails as texts, and, if you hate texting,
you can let Spinvox send spoken messages out as SMS or email
memos.

SpinVox

And talking of creative thinking, this site houses a funky little
tool to help you brainstorm and collaborate.

Bubbl.us

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Thursday, December 3, 2009

Search 4

Blogger.com
Free, automated web log publishing tool that sends updates to a site via
FTP (file transfer protocol).

Blogger

Map Quest
Find directions and explore towns and cities worldwide. Display
addresses on a map, view nearby businesses, get driving directions and
maps, and plan a trip with city information.

Map Quest

Ebay
The Best known and most respected Auction site on the Internet. Also it
is the biggest search engine online despite the fact that most people
think is Google.

Ebay

Answers.com
An ad-supported reference search service, which displays concise
answers drawn from over 100 encyclopedias, dictionaries, glossaries
and atlases.

Answer

Mega upload
Megaupload.com is the "leading website of the world" for transferring
files easily, with complete security and free of charge.

Megaupload

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Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Search 3

Meta Search Engines

What are "meta search engines"?

A meta search engine looks a lot like a regular search engine when you arrive at the main search page.

But there is a BIG difference below the surface.

A meta engine typically does not have its own database of indexed web sites. It takes your search query, runs off to a number of "real" search engines and displays a list of results from all of them. That could be great - more search results from more sources - great for finding obscure information, right?

Wrong.

The problem with meta search engines

They are a commendable effort, but very seldom does a search on a meta engine provide better results.

Apart from major limitations like the absence of advanced search and the real possibility of timeouts, they often retrieve only to top 10, top 50 or top 100 results from each search engine. You end up with fewer results than you would if you searched directly at one of the engines it queries.

Phrase and Boolean searching are rarely processed correctly, because the search engines being queried implement it differently.

Some of the more popular meta search engines

Dogpile searches an impressive list of sources:

LookSmart, Overture, Thunderstone, Yahoo, Open Directory, About.com, Lycos' Top 5%, Direct Hit, and AltaVista. It offers other searches for Usenet, FTP, News Wires, Business News, Stock Quotes, Weather, Yellow Pages, White Pages, and maps.

The wide reach and ability to customize results makes Dogpile one of the most popular meta search engines.