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Annotated Reference Guide to Personal Search Tools, Agents, Bots, Browser Search Add-Ons

In this article:
1. Active Caption
2. BookMarkeLets
3. Bullseye
4. CliqueMe
5. CMore Advanced
6. CyBot Stand
7. DejaSearch Usenet
8. eXcentrix
9. Express Infoseek
10. FerretSoft
11. Hurricane WebSearch Download
12. iMarkup
13. InfoCaesar
14. Internet Research Assistant
15. i-retrieve
16. Jotter Browser
17. Katiesoft
18. Kenjin Software
19. KnowAll Natural
20. Latest Changes Web Agent
21. Mata Hari Download
22. MantaDB Utilities
23. MicroSurfer
24. MisterPix Search
25. MP3 Wolf
26. NetSanity SmartBar Browser
27. SAB Bookmarks Converter
28. SearchWolf Meta
29. Simplefind
30. TurboStart
31. UltiMark
32. WebBandit

Active Caption
This puts a search engine, a powerful browser-independent bookmark utility, and other tools on your browser's caption/title bar.
http://oneseek.com/activecaption.htm

BookMarkeLets 150
This software is available to help you search faster, and modify the way you view pages and extract data. PC and Mac compatible.
http://www.bookmarklets.com/

Bullseye
This browser tool lets you browse and search at the same time, while it searches over 900 web sources simultaneously.
http://www.intelliseek.com/

CliqueMe Software
A program that lets you see who else is browsing a site and converse with them.
http://www.cliqueme.com/

CMore Advanced
This is a search and file storage tool that can be used in conjunction with your browser.
http://www.cmoreweb.com/

CyBot Stand
This software does all your searches and browsing for you, bringing back the information that you have requested.
http://www.theartmachine.com/cybot.htm

DejaSearch Usenet
This is another search assistant software. It will submit a search for you to Deja.com, then retrieve and consolidate all search results into one single HTML file, having sorted them by date, subject, and newsgroup.
http://homemade.hypermart.net/dejasearch/

eXcentrix
You can search the Internet from a document just by highlighting a word within an active document.
http://www.excentrix.com/

ExpressInfoseek
This is Go's desktop version of a meta search utility, it searches dozens of SEs and web sites simultaneously.
http://www.express.infoseek.com/

FerretSoft
This consists of a family of search utilities with many features that include everything from meta, searching the net, finding an email address, searching newsgroups, and much more.
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/ index.html

Hurricane WebSearch Download
This is a meta-search tool for searching up to 12 search engines from your browser.
http://www.gatecomm.com/websearch/

iMarkup
A text highlighter that makes web searches easier, and organizes your bookmarks and links for you.
http://www.imarkup.com/

InfoCaesar
A web page capture system designed to replace your browser.
InfoCaesar Web Archive

Internet Research Assistant
This provides direct access to special "JavaScript" search engines that remain an active utility when launched.
They become three (3) separate remote windows you can keep open, enabling instant access to over twenty (20) different search engines that are always at your fingertips. This program includes an autoscrolling feature.
http://members.aol.com/starfirert/ira/

i-retrieve
This is a Java applet that opens into a small window in your browser and provides you with a search query box linked to the more popular search engines. Pick from many general search resources organized by country, or from topic specific search engines.
Mac and PC compatible.
http://www.home.gelrevision.nl/~h.wolter/

Jotter Browser
This customized toolbar is designed to help you organize essential information and search the web.
http://www.jotter.com/

Katiesoft
This is a browser manager that works with Windows based machines to let you arrange multiple browser windows on your screen.
http://www.katiesoft.com/

Kenjin Software
This is software that works with windows to show you pertinent web links to any of the highlighted text in your windows documents.
http://www.kenjin.com/

KnowAll Natural
This is a reference search tool that provides almost immediate answers to reference questions.
http://www.knowall.com/

Latest Changes Web Agent
This program does full text searches on URLs to identify updated documents.
http://www.engelschall.com/sw/lcwa/

Mata Hari Download
This desktop search agent is designed for meta searching the web. It can search up to 600 sources at once with full control.
http://www.thewebtools.com/

MantaDB Utilities
This software scans the web pages viewed and saves them as a searchable database for future access.
http://www.skali.com/mantadb/

MicroSurfer
You can use this software to view web pages quickly, visit several links on a page, and download pages in the background.
http://www.microsurfer.com/

MisterPix Search
This is a tool that helps you find pictures on the internet and in Newsgroups.
http://www.mister-pix.com/

MP3 Wolf
This is a "search robot" that scans the Internet for MP3, MIDI and WAV and other music files directly from your PC. MP3-Wolf can locate, sort and verify thousands of music files and links per hour. Then it can deliver all of them to your browser for download.
http://www.trellian.net/mwolf/index.html

NetSanity SmartBar Browser
This is another toolbar search utility that takes up minimal real estate space.
http://www.netsanity.com/

SAB Bookmarks Converter
This lets you convert Internet Explorer bookmarks to Netscape bookmarks and Netscape bookmarks to IE bookmarks.
http://www.saberman.com/SABBC/

SearchWolf Meta
This is another search tool for your browser.
http://www.trellian.com/search/index.html

Simplefind
This is a free program for Windows to help you meta search the internet.
http://www.adcsoft.com/simplefind.html

Talash
Use this search assistant to search for documents on your hard disk, Internet or LAN.
http://www.italash.com/

TurboStart
A Desktop search utility that lets you tap 270 of the web's most popular search engines when you are using your browser.
http://www.turbostart.net/

UltiMark
A Bookmark organizer that offers neat tools like PopUp killer and enhanced navigation features.
http://www.ultimark.com/

WebBandit
This search utility allows you to skip search engine's graphics and cookies.
http://www.1billionsites.com/webbandit.html

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