Here is a small present to all of you serious information seekers.

Not sufficiently happy of the launch of my new Mini-Guide called "NewsGod: How to know everything about anything (you want)" I have gone out and done some extra work to prize all of those that will not have the opportunity to read all that it is inside this invaluable search guide.

Over the ark of two days I have grouped and selected the very best search toolbars that you can find around today. While these tools do not cover many search-related tasks, like monitoring, tracking, organizing and filtering, they are all extremely good at tapping into the existing Internet search engines by exploiting their key features, by simplifying searches across multiple engines and by facilitating access to a search box when you really need it.
I have here listed tools that work with all computers and across all operating systems. Each one of you should find something of value here.
Most of the tools are also completely free, though some of the best may require a small price to be paid for thier full unlimited use.

If they are here, they are all recommended.

Have a great search!

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GG Search
http://www.frysianfools.com/ggsearch/
FREE
Google search junkies should try this one. This floating toolbar is a very effective desktop interface to Google. You don't even need to open your browser. If you use Google and want to tap all of its best features GGSearch will make you smile. All of Google facilities and options are easily accessible from your desktop.
Use it to translate a Web page or to try out many other Google goodies like: "are you lucky". It uses your windows default browser for showing the final search results.

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Gophoria
http://www.gophoria.com/
FREE
Gophoria makes ANY text, url, or image in your Internet browser instantly searchable. With gophoria, you have the ability to return a new window with search results from any web page.
Gophoria is free for general use and distribution
Download Gophoria free at: http://www.gophoria.com/download.html

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Macintosh SearchGoogle.service
http://gu.st/proj/SearchGoogle.service/
FREE

This is a very handy utility for all Mac users on Mac OS X. A simple background service allows you to select text in (nearly) any application and press "Shift-Apple->" to launch a Google search for that text. This release is context aware. When you select text from Project Builder, a browser opens up searching http://developer.apple.com/ instead of Google. You can define your own contexts (application-grain) and choose what URLs they apply to. This so called "liftware" is in the Public Domain.

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Rocketinfo Desktop (Win, Mac, Linux, Sun)
http://www.rocketdesktop.com/
Free to try - $ 29.95

Rocketinfo Desktop is search software for finding and sharing current news, blogs, rss feeds, books, market research, white papers and company information. Rocketinfo Dekstop allows you to search over 10,000 current news and business information sources including:
Newspapers
Web-Only News sites
Newswires
Traditional Media Websites
Corporate Websites
Government Institutions
RSS & Weblogs
Top Market Research Sites
Leading White Paper Sites
Book Sites
Corporate Information
Rocketinfo Desktop is available both in Win and Mac versions.
A free 30-day trial is available at:
http://www.rocketdesktop.com/downloads.html

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Google Toolbar
http://toolbar.google.com
FREE
Special toolbar for Internet Explorer users that puts a Google search box right into your browser. The Google Toolbar allows you to see the "PageRank" popularity score of any page you are viewing. You can also search within any particular site rather than searching across the whole Internet. Extra features allow you to see a previous "cached" copy of any dead pages, find pages similar to the one you are viewing, and all the sites that are linking to anyone of your Web pages. The Google Toolbar provides features to highlight your searched keywords on the pages found as well as the Word Find option that allows you to highlight each and every instance of a specified keywords on the page you are viewing. Something that not many people know is that in addition to basic searching, you can add buttons to your toolbar for quick access to all the searches you use regularly: Google Groups or Google Images, for example. Or you can add the Combined Search Button, which gives you one click access to all of the searches, from Google News to the U.S. government search.

Please Note: Using the Google Toolbar with the PageRank feature enabled does send some information back to Google. If that concerns you, choose the "Install Without Advanced Features" option.

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Groowe Toolbar
http://www.groowe.com
FREE
Through the Groowe Toolbar you can access Google and many other search engines including Yahoo, MSN Search, AllTheWeb, Teoma, AltaVista, and others. The toolbar can also perform complex and pecialized searches taking advantage of the specific features of each one.

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UltraBar
http://www.ultrabar.com/
FREE
UltraBar is a meta-searching toolbar while adding the option for you to add additional ones of your choice. The UltraBar sports many features introduced with the original Google Toolbar, such as term highlighting and jumping to keyword buttons.

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Googlebar
http://googlebar.mozdev.org/
FREE
A Google Toolbar for Netscape users. This volunteer-created Googlebar for Netscape is a must try solution if you are a Netscape-aficionado.

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Teoma Search Bar
http://sp.ask.com/docs/teoma/toolbar/
FREE
Search directly Teoma's with effective search term highlighting on the pages you visit. It also allows you to access an online dictionary. One unique feature of the Teoma Search Bar is its ability to allow you to easily send via email any Web page you view.

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Girafa
http://www.girafa.com/
FREE
This is a browser plug-in for Internet Explorer that searches multiple search engines while displaying thumbnails of the Web search results in a sidebar.

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Ask Jeeves Toolbar
http://sp.ask.com/docs/toolbar/
FREE
Direct access to Ask Jeeves' search results plus a set of unique features including search only kid-friendly Web sites, searching for the most relevant news headlines and looking up word definitions online. It is also possible to change the page view of the current Web page through a Zoom facility and to email any page to a friend.

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Yahoo Companion
http://companion.yahoo.com/
FREE
Search Yahoo, access Yahoo Mail, check stocks and other Yahoo services directly from this browser toolbar.

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Nutshell Toolbar
http://www.torrez.org/projects/nutshell/
FREE

Direct access to the search engines of Google, Amazon, Dictionary.com, the Internet Movie Database, and Daypop..

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Surfarama
http://www.surfarama.com/
FREE

IE toolbar for surfers and media junkies searches Daypop (http://www.daypop.com/) and links to Daypop News Bursts and Words Bursts.

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Trellian Seo Toolbar
http://www.trellian.com/toolbar/
Free to download
Trellian Toolbar is the most *feature packed* toolbar available online. While offering an endless array of functionality, tools and services, Trellian Toolbars unique intuitive tab menu and search functions are a pleasure to use. It incorporates search functions for many of the top search engines and it can search multiple search engines from one toolbar. It also integrates a pop-up killer, and a more direct way to access your links. The Trellian Toolbar via the PPC search tab, provides easy search of the major PPC engines. Includes: Overture, Kanoodle, FindWhat, Ah-Ha, Sprinks, 7search, xuppa, plus more. A great way to search the PPC Engines via a single interface.
Finally, the Trellian SEO Toolbar provides a treasure-kit of SEO tools, supporting the task that online marketers and entrepreneurs needing to optimize their pages for better ranking inside the search engines crave to have at their fingertips all the time. To do so Trellian integrates the full SEO Toolkit
(http://www.trellian.com/seotoolkit/index.html)
which is by itself an application suite in its own right.
The toolkit includes:
Server Header Check
Search Term Suggestion tool
Keyword Density
Pay Per Click Bid Tracker
Link Popularity
Meta Tag Editor
Ranking Advisor
Ranking Analyzer
PrioritySubmit Desktop
SubmitWolf PRO v6.0
3 ROI Calculators
Traffic Stats and other services.

Trellian also integrates the whole set of InternetStudio authoring tools
(http://www.trellian.com/internetstudio/index.html) such as a
spell checker, HTML validator and a HTML tidy tool.

Download a free copy at:
http://www.trellian.com/toolbar/index.html

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HotBot QuickSearck Deskbar
http://www.hotbot.com/tools/
FREE
The HotBot Quick Search Deskbar allows you to search over 200 search sites, including HotBot, from one searchbox. You can also access a number of useful tools from the same input. Free up browser and folder windows with the HotBot Quick Search Deskbar as it is installed directly into your Windows Explorer Taskbar.

N.B.: HotBot Quick Search Deskbar is based on Dave's Quick Search Deskbar.

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Cnet Search Bar
http://www.search.com/guides/sb/main.html
FREE

The CNET SearchBar is a very useful Internet Explorer toolbar if you like to search across technical information, reviews, and articles available on the CNET family of sites.

If you want to stay up-to-date with the latest info in any area, you owe it to yourself to read NewsGod, my new mini-guide about knowing everything about anything without ever moving a finger.

Find out more at:
http://www.masternewmedia.org/reports/newsgod/index.htm