New search tools grab bag
1. SearchShots
2. Searchwho
3. Researchville
4. FindArticles
5. SearchBar v.1.1
6. Inquiremail
7. Surfwax
8. Teoma
9. Cogitum Co-Citer
10. First Stop Web Search
I am reporting here a short set of links to new or updated search tools and engines worth of your attention.
You can give them a try too, as they are just a link away.
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SearchShots
SearchShots Web Archive
Searchshots is a search engine serving screenshots of web page results. It utilizes the ODP directory as its main source (http://www.dmoz.org). It sports an effective user interface with an innovative usability design of its navigation depth facility (through clickable tabs).
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Searchwho
http://www.searchwho.com
Searchwho provides integrated access to over 80 quality and specialized search engines in 12 different categories including: Computing, Books, Music, Health, Sports, News, Jobs, Business.
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Researchville
http://www.researchville.com
Launched in February 2001 this search engines taps the so-called invisible web by accessing 133 general and specialized search engines and databases, 602 archives of U.S. daily newspapers. That makes for 735 databases in total, in 21 categories, 50 states, plus D.C.
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FindArticles
http://www.findarticles.com
A content-distribution partnership between LookSmart, and the Gale Group, which provides the published editorial content, FindArticles.com is a vast archive of published articles that you can search for free. Constantly updated, it contains articles dating back to 1998 from more than 300 magazines and journals. You will find articles on a range of topics, including business, health, society, entertainment, sports and more. Unlike other online collections, each of the hundreds of thousands of articles in FindArticles can be read in its entirety and printed at no cost.
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SearchBar v.1.1
http://www.pommsoft.com/searchbar/
A downloadable personal search tool. Searchbar cann access Lycos, Excite, Altavista, Hotbot, Google and Yahoo. This tool can be minimized in your system tray and called up with one click just when you need it.
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Inquiremail
http://www.inquiremail.com
Inquiremail is a special kind of search engine which allows users to search the web through their e-mail. This facilitates people who do not have an easily accessible web connection, but full access to e-mail services. Inquiremail searches Alltheweb, Hotbot and Altavista. Its e-mail- based nature may prove to be a valuable bonus for internet marketing specialists needing to monitor specific keyphrases on the above search engines, while automatically keeping a good history track of them in their Inbox. To make it work simply send an email to search@inquiremail.com and type in the Subject the search term or phrase you are looking for.
To retrieve a complete web page send instead an email to URL@inquiremail.com with the URL to download in the Subject line. Pretty powerful!
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Surfwax
http://www.surfwax.com
Surfwax is a meta-search engine bringing together results from all of the best and major search engines. To this date this is the engine that provides the most comprehensive set of results for any search I have tried. Try my name on it and you can find almost everything I have been directly or indirectly involved with on the Internet (make sure you type "Luigi Canali De Rossi" or whatever else multiple word phrase within quotes). Among unique features offered by Surfwax are the SiteSnaps. This facility offers a handy and useful quick abstract of a web page. Surfwax is capable of extracting summative sentence portions from web pages as well as Key Points -- key issues or relations extracted from web pages. Last but not least it can provide Site's FocusWords - which are up to 40 filtered Focuswords extracted directly from the page to represent the page's content.
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Teoma
http://www.teoma.com
This is a new breed of search engine providing three types of search results at once. In addition to returning web sites ranked by relevance Teoma also returns topic groupings and directory pages to support and complement researchers' needs. Developed at Rutgers University in the US, Teoma has made its debut at the end of May this year. Teoma calculates the relevance of web pages by utilizing link analysis and identifying "communities" on the web. Then it determines which sires are the authorities within those communities to find the best pages.
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Cogitum Co-Citer
http://www.cogitum.com/co-tracker-text/ more.shtml
Cogitum Co-Citer is a tool for creating collections of texts from the Internet. It automatically captures the selected text, its Internet address, its title and date of adding to the database. The program even allows you to assign your own comments and place it to a specified folder. Once a text has been grabbed, you can:
a) publish the collection as a Web page;
b) send the collection by e-mail;
c) control how the grabbed texts and information are displayed;
d) search the collection;
e) print and delete grabbed texts from the collection.
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First Stop Web Search
http://www.brushgroup.com/ws/wssetup.exe
First Stop Web Search is a powerful personal search tool utilizing 12 different search engines simultaneously. It can save results for future sessions and it provides a handful of advanced features every serious researcher would want. It's free.
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