The homepage resembles that of Google’s in so far as the employment of minimalism. The search results are also very plain yet neatly organized – free of advertisements except for a banner towards the end of the screen.

I didn’t find the download speed had increased much in comparison to other torrents but the fact that it weeds out the bad torrents did save me some time and disappointment, I suppose.

Features:

• Good Torrent Search Function.
• Plain and simple – easy to understand.
• Weeds out bad torrents and duplicates.
• Similar sites: Qtorrents, YouTorrent, uSniff, LookTorrent, TorrentFly and NowTorrents.

Check  out BitSnoop @ www.bitsnoop.com (by Dean Sherwin)

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• Vertor: Stay Away From Infected & Fake Torrents
• ZabaSearch: Search People by Name, Address & Phone Number
• Yauba: Anonymous Search Engine
• Yahoo Glue: All Search Results On One Page
• WuZAM : MP3 Search Engine

And it doesn’t stop at just the images. It also fetches videos related to the image content, similar images from Flickr (there are separate filters based on image licenses for Flickr too) and news stories with images. If you want to find out where exactly the image appeared, you just need to hover your mouse above it and it pops up the information.

Demo video:

Features:

• Search images by similarity.
• Upload images or draw a rough sketch to find similar images.
• Also search similar images by giving an image url or keyword.
• Filter search results by size, color and more.
• Get videos, Flickr images and news results too.
• Similar tools: Pixolu and more in recent MakeUseOf article about alternative image search engines.

Check out GazoPa@ www.gazopa.com (via TechCrunch, by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• The Real Live Search: Search Bing Quickly
• TagBulp: Quick Tag Search Engine For Images & Videos
• Swirl: Cool Image Search From Google Labs
• Similar-Images: Similar Images Search From Google
• Pixolu: Search for Similar Images Using an Image

You can even set it up so that it is linked with your Twitter and Facebook accounts to make the search results even more personalized.

See the demo video:

Features:

• View social media (Twitter, Facebook, Amazon and YouTube) search results next to regular results.
• Works with Google, Bing or Yahoo.
• Play YouTube videos right in the search results page.
• Filter search results from Facebook and Twitter to see results from your News Feed or Tweets from users you follow.
• Easily share any of the results via email, Twitter or Facebook.
• Supports Firefox and Internet Explorer.
• Free and easy to use.

Check out kikin @ www.kikin.com (via go2web20, by Alex Ainsberg)

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• UnifiedSearch: Unified Search Engine Comparison Tool
• Search Cloudlet: Google Tag Search
• YouTube Auto Buffer: Makes YouTube Better [Greasemonkey]
• Yammer – A Twitter For Businesses and Enterprises
• wwwitter: See Twitter Discussions For Any Webpage

Tinkomatic is an all-in-one search tool for online classified ads. It combines all searches from popular classi-ad websites like Craigslist, Kijiji, Oodle, and eBay in one page so that you can find what you need quickly – be it a new job, a house, a used car, or any item for sale.

Tinkomatic uses real-time search to get the most updated results, but its killer features are the ability to save your searches in your profile for future use and the option to add RSS feeds for your search terms.

Search results from each site are displayed in separate panes, allowing you to view and compare results side by side. You can also create custom searches with advanced search filters.

Demo video:

Features:

• One-page search display from EBay, Craigslist, Kijiji, and Oodle.
• Fetch RSS feeds from Trulia and Google Base for your search terms.
• Custom searches with advanced search filters.
• Monitor and track your items with saved searches.
• Get notified with new deals using Google alerts.

Check out Tinkomatic @ www.tinkomatic.com

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• TypoBuddy: Find Misspelled Items on Ebay & Craigslist
• LetsCall.Me: Get Calls without Revealing your Phone Number
• HeyCraig: Free Craigslist Alerts for Specific Listings
• Craigsly: Set Up Craigslist Search Alerts
• Ztail : Find out How Much a Product is Worth

To put it simply, it processes each image and identifies the type of visual concepts present within the image (animal, beach, car, cloud, face etc). It allows for better filtering of image search results according to your needs.

Image search results for pictures tagged “coast” that look like “beach”

Image search results for pictures simply tagged “coast”

Features:

• Search only high quality Flickr images.
• Search inside Flickr images.
• Similar sites: LiteFlick, CoolFlick, MultiColr and FlickrBabel.

Check out Behold @ www.behold.cc

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• Wrapr: Cool Panoramic Image Viewer
• MultiColr: Find Flickr Photos with Specific Color Scheme
• LiteFlick: Nice Flickr Search Tool
• FlickrBabel: Search & Filter Flickr Photos by Location and Language
• Flickorama: Cool Flickr 3D Viewer

You could also discover how well the celebrities relate to each other and track their popularity over the past 6 months using the xRank history chart.

Bing xRank also has two categories named xRank today and xTreme movers which focus on the rising search trends, terms and the latest news.

Features:

• Track celebrities and their popolarity on Bing.
• Search for celebrities and check their popularity, bio, images and videos.
• See how the celebrities compare when it comes to search trends on Bing.
• Explore rising web trends using xRank today.
• Similar app: NextBigSound.

Check out Bing xRank @www.bing.com/xrank (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• WorldClock: Displays Interesting Real Time World Statistics
• World Freedom Atlas: Global Stats on Freedom, Democracy, Human Rights etc.
• Wa-Wd: Find Out Who Is Alive And Who Is Dead
• TuneChimp: Search And Discover Best Music From Any Artist
• The Real Live Search: Search Bing Quickly

While users can search all sources at the same time, there are also options to limit search to Wikipedia online, all online wikis, or search only on conventional online encyclopedias.

Features:

• Searche for information on online encyclopedias.
• Sources include popular online encyclopedias like Encarta, Britannica, Wikipedia and several others.
• Similar sites: Wikiwix.

Check out Wiki.com @ www.wiki.com

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• Wikiwix: The Ultimate Wikipedia Search Engine
• SmartWikiSearch: Wikipedia Similarity Search Engine
• TrendingTopics: View Hot Wikipedia Topics & Trends
• Navify: A Better Wikipedia (with Images & Videos )
• Fotopedia: Wikipedia For Images

Features:

• Find cool local activities for today or tomorrow.
• Currently works only for cities in the United States.
• Enter the activity, the location and the time to view results.
• Check out driving directions and pictures.

Check out Goby@ www.goby.com [via Webware] (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• WhatsOnWhen: Local Event Guide For Over 500 World Destinations
• GigZee: Find Local Live Music
• Corkboard: Quickly Save Things You Want to Remember and Setup Reminders
• Zvents: Find Events in Your Area
• Zapproved: Web based Decision Making Tool

Rapidshare.net provides a solution to this problem. Next time when you upload files to Rapidshare simply change the extension of your Rapidshare links from .com to .net. When a user clicks the Rapidshare.net link, they are redirected (within 15 seconds) to the official Rapidshare.com download page.

If the link is dead, the user is offered alternative download link to similar files.

There is a huge benefit for webmasters. Your users won’t get stuck with broken download links. And when you link from your website to Rapidshare.net, your site gets cached in its database and as a result you get search results traffic when someone searches on Rapidshare.net for that file.

Features:

• Index of Rapidshare hosted files.
• Search Rapidshare files in one place.
• Provides solution for broken download links and provides access to files that are similar.
• All the links are checked and updated against 10M+ links in the database.
• Offer direct download links to your users instead of simple tex.t
• Plugin available for webmasters that automatically replaces Rapidshare.com links to Rapidshare.net. Supports most popular forum and blogging platforms including Wordpress, Joomla, phpBB and vBulletin.
• Link to Rapidshare.net and get search results traffic when someone searches for your file.

Check out Rapidshare.net @ www.rapidshare.net

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• UploadGround: Upload Files to Several File Hosts at Once
• Shufs: Search Files on MegaUpload and Mediashare
• ShareMiner: Search Web for Files
• Rapidzearch: Search Top File Sharing Websites For Files
• Njouba: Search MP3s, Books, FTPs, Rapidshare & Torrents

For more info watch video below:

Features:

• Comprehensive online file search engine.
• Search for file on the web, on Usenet, FTP, eMule etc.
• Search for file types like audio, video, bittorrent, documents and more.
• Data sourced from over 167 file upload services.
• Other similar engines: ShareMiner, TotMe and FilesTube.

Check out Findthatfile @ www.findthatfile.com (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• ZabaSearch: Search People by Name, Address & Phone Number
• Yauba: Anonymous Search Engine
• Yahoo Glue: All Search Results On One Page
• WuZAM : MP3 Search Engine
• WoonzFiles: Search Rapidshare, MegaUpload, Megashares …

You can also find a website category using tags.

Features:

• Online sentiment based search engine.
• Tracks product mentions on Twitter and blogs
• Categorizes search results under good, easy, powerful, fast, secure, useful and popular.
• Gives the percentage of bloggers in favor of an app or a website.

Check out RankSpeed @ www.rankspeed.com (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• The Real Live Search: Search Bing Quickly
• Limmz: Start Page with 50+ Search Engines
• Google Squared: Organize Search Results Like Never Before
• BlindSearch: The Best ‘Which Search Engine is Better’ Test

uQuery offers helpful sorting options letting you filter apps by price, category, and the time when they were added to the store. Clicking on a particular app shows additional details along with the app’s features. Although you still need iTunes to actually buy the apps.

Features:

• Browse iPhone apps online without iTunes.
• Filter apps by price, category, and the time when they were added.
• Click on to apps to read more details about features.

Check out uQuery @ www.uquery.com (via DownloadSquad)

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• Appsto.re: Share App Store Apps With Ease
• Zoho : Feature-rich Web-based Office Software
• YTPodcaster: Turn YouTube Videos into Video Podcasts
• YouTubePodcaster: Convert YouTube Results to MP4 Podcast Feeds
• YouArchiveIt: Backup iPhone SMS Messages Online

Features

• Compare search results from different sites side by side.
• View the window in a single or divided frame.
• Not only search engines but also lets you compare results from sites in different categories.
• Share the results page easily via the generated link.
• Similar sites: CompareGoogle, Wolfram Alpha Google and BlindSearch.

Check out Panabee @ www.panabee.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• Triplify: Compare Google, Yahoo & Live Search Results
• Goofram: Search Google and Wolfram Alpha at the Same Time
• CompareGoogle: Compare Caffeine vs.Google Results
• AskBoth: Compare Google & Bing Searches on One Page
• WikiMatrix: Compare Wiki Platforms

You can also search for more then two concepts, and it will present articles where these two concepts overlap. For example, type in “Mountain, snow” and it will show Wikipedia pages like “Glacier”, “Avalanche”, “Ski resort” and so on.

Note: The concepts you search for need to have their own pages on Wikipedia, and should be “important” enough for the similarities to be found.

Features:

• Easy way to find Wikipedia pages that discuss same or similar issues.
• Presents a quick overview for any given concept.
• Search for more then two concepts.
• Free and easy to use.

Check out SmartWikiSearch @ www.smartwikisearch.com

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• Wikiwix: The Ultimate Wikipedia Search Engine
• Wiki: Search Only Encyclopedia and Wikipedia Type Websites
• TrendingTopics: View Hot Wikipedia Topics & Trends
• Navify: A Better Wikipedia (with Images & Videos )
• Fotopedia: Wikipedia For Images

Features:

• Alternative search engine for Bing.
• Shows Bing search results and querry suggestions as you enter the search term.
• Image and video results are presented as well.
• Quick and easy to use.

Check out The Real Live Search @ www.istartedsomething.com/livesearch

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• TagBulp: Quick Tag Search Engine For Images & Videos
• Swirl: Cool Image Search From Google Labs
• Similar-Images: Similar Images Search From Google
• RankSpeed: Online Sentiment Search Engine
• Pixolu: Search for Similar Images Using an Image

It was only a matter of time until someone would create a website to compare Caffeine with calssic Google Search. Now you can compare these two on CompareGoogle.com. It is a simple comparison app that allows you compare search results from both engines on a single page. Simply enter the keyword an click on the “brew” button to get results side by side.

Check out CompareGoogle @ www.comparegoogle.com

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• Goofram: Search Google and Wolfram Alpha at the Same Time
• Triplify: Compare Google, Yahoo & Live Search Results
• Panabee: Compare Search Results From Different Websites Side-by-Side
• Google Squared: Organize Search Results Like Never Before
• AskBoth: Compare Google & Bing Searches on One Page

Users may browse artists in alphabetical order or use on-site search engine. Click on a search result to see where the MP3 file is hosted. Use the mouse righ click button (’Save File As’ option) to save mp3 song on your computer.

Moreover, abMP3 provides a code to embed the song on your blog or online profile page.

Main Features:

• Search, listen and download MP3 songs.
• Get a special URL for each song and share it with others.
• Embed songs on your blog.
• Post comments on each song and see what others are saying.
• No registration required.

Check out abMP3 @ www.abMP3.com (by Tehseen from Ijaar.com)

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• Booster: Online MP3 Finder
• Yahoo! Media Player: Embedable MP3 Player
• WuZAM : MP3 Search Engine
• WorryAboutYou: Find, Listen and Download Songs you Like
• Woonz : Find, Play and Download Music Tracks

It then presents the results on a clean and user friendly interface. The results can be further filtered by relevance, model format, price, and source.

Features:

• Search all 3D websites for 3D models and textures.
• Supported sites: 3D02, 3DExport, 3Dvia, 3DXtras, Cadyou, Form Fonts Exchange, Google 3DWarehouse, Polantis and The 3DStudio.
• Sort and filter results by relevance, model format, source and price.
• Free, no registration required.

Check out 3dfilter @ www.3dfilter.com

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• WebGraficMaker : Create Backgrounds, Lines and Bulleted Points
• Urban Outfitters Bike Shop: Design Your Own Bike Online
• UnifiedSearch: Unified Search Engine Comparison Tool
• TypoGenerator: Generate Random Nonsense Posters
• Twitter Patterns: Cool Background Designs For Your Twitter Profile

Features:

• Search all Wikipedia related sites together.
• Search in 13 different languages.
• Different options for text, image and atlas search.
• Get results from all sources on one page.
• For more similar sites read our article “4 Search Engines to Search Wikipedia The Pro Way“.

Check out Wikiwix @ www.wikiwix.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• Wiki: Search Only Encyclopedia and Wikipedia Type Websites
• SmartWikiSearch: Wikipedia Similarity Search Engine
• TrendingTopics: View Hot Wikipedia Topics & Trends
• Navify: A Better Wikipedia (with Images & Videos )
• Fotopedia: Wikipedia For Images

To find tutorial, simply enter the tutorial title and click “Search”. The application will then present a list tutorials that you can preview and save onto you computer. There is no registration and you can download as many tutorials as you like.

Features:

• Find free internet tutorials in PDF format.
• Preview tutorials in your browser.
• Download tutorials onto your computer.
• For more tutorial sites see MakeUseOf  “tutorals” section.

Check Out Free-Tutorial-For.me @ www.free-tutorial-for.me

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• The-Manuals: Free Manuals Search Engine
• PDFind: PDF Document Search Engine
• GoogleGuide: Learn How To Really Use Google
• Google Document Search Utility
• DownloadAnyStuff: Find Free Books, MP3s and Software on Google

Features

• Visual search tool with a rich and intuitive interface.
• Currently offers search for Amazon, Ebay and Youtube.
• Visualize results using different view options.
• Sort the data visually or use category view to choose products.
• Similar websites: BidFlyer, PicClick, oSkope, CLHacks and Like.

Check out Vizzl @ www.vizzl.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• oSkope: Visual Search for eBay, Youtube, Flickr …
• GetItNext : Better Way to Search eBay
• Basefire : eBay Search Engine
• VisuWords: Visual Dictionary and Thesaurus
• VideoFetcher : Search 100 Popular Video Sites Simultaneously

To search, simply enter a keyword (e.g. marketing, Carpenter, Chinese ) or zip code and hit “Search”, Courseopedia will then list all available courses related to your query offered by different colleges. Clicking on a particular course listing brings more detailed information.

Additionally, if you represent a college/university or offer your own private courses, you can sign up for free online and submit your offerings on the site.

Features:

• Search college courses in one place.
• Browse results by class name, program, school and relevant career.
• Submit and publicize your own courses and classes.
• Lists a 30,000 courses available in  State of California.
• More us cities will be added soon.

Check out Courseopedia @ www.courseopedia.com

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• University Of The People: Tuition-Free Online University
• TrackClass: Track & Organize Your School Work
• The Plagiarism Checker: Check Papers For Plagiarism
• Plagium: Online Plagiarism Tracker
• MBAvid: Free MBA Video Lectures

Features:

• Search for torrents on multiple popular torrent sites.
• Results are organized by categories: Movies, Music, TV Shows, Games, Apps and Amine.
• Sort search results by popularity and freshness.
• No sign up needed.
• Similar websites: YouTorrent, uSniff, LookTorrent, TorrentFly and NowTorrents.

Check out Qtorrents @ www.qtorrents.com

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• TorrentSurf: Search 14 Leading Torrent Engines At Once
• ScrapeTorrent: Search Major Torrent Sites At Once
• Usniff: Search Multiple Torrent Sites Simultaneously
• UnifiedSearch: Unified Search Engine Comparison Tool
• Triplify: Compare Google, Yahoo & Live Search Results

This time we present you one cool Firefox add-on that can easily replace them all. It unifies popular search engines like Bing, Wolfram, Wikipedia, Delicious and Stumbleupon in one place and lets you compare side-by-side with Google.

Once you have it installed simply go to Google and search for something, on the search results page you should see a toolbar displaying different search engines. Clicking on the particular engine will open results from that engine next to the search results from Google. You may easily switch between search engines with a single click.

Features:

• Compare search results from popular search engines against Google.
• Supported engines are Bing, Wolfram, Wikipedia, Delicious and Stumbleupon.
• Switch between engines with a single click.
• Simple and easy to use.
• Currently works only with Firefox.

Check out UnifiedSearch @ http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12546

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• Wolfram Alpha Google: Adds Wolfram Alpha Search Results Next To Google’s
• Triplify: Compare Google, Yahoo & Live Search Results
• TorrentSurf: Search 14 Leading Torrent Engines At Once
• Sperse: Smart and Accurate Meta Search Engine
• ScrapeTorrent: Search Major Torrent Sites At Once

This time we are going to show you another image search tool called Kalooga. Instead of searching for single matches, Kalooga tries to find complete image galleries. Because photo gallery pages are usually maintained by someone who is an expert or an enthusiast on the subject, the images tend to be highly relevant.

The users can search on Kalooga by keyword and also run specific searches for topics like Travel, Football, Celebrities and American Football.

Features:

• Find related online image galleries.
• Option to vote on each result.
• Free, no registration needed.
• See the Kalooga demo video here.

Check out Kalooga @ www.kalooga.com

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• The Real Live Search: Search Bing Quickly
• TagBulp: Quick Tag Search Engine For Images & Videos
• Swirl: Cool Image Search From Google Labs
• Similar-Images: Similar Images Search From Google
• Pixolu: Search for Similar Images Using an Image

How it works:

1. Search for a charity or a cause (cancer, pets, environment etc.) you would like to support from the field “Who do you GoodSearch for?”
2. Pick a charity from the list and click to confirm it.
3. Search for anything online as you normally do. The 50% of advertising revenues generated from your searches will go to your selected charity (on average 0.01$ per search)

You can search the Internet from the website or from your browser by installing the GoodSearch toolbar. You can always change the cause that you support by selecting a different charity.

Features:

• Raise money for charity (protecting environment, homeless pets, cancer research etc) by using the GoodSearch search engine.
• No financial or time cost to you.
• Half of revenues from your searches are directed to the charity of your choice.
• Search from GoodSearch website or directly from your browser by installing the GoodSearch toolbar.
• Search results powered by Yahoo!.
• View the amount raised through user searches for every participating charity.
• Similar web tools: Pledgie, ReplyForAll and FreeRice.

Check out GoodSearch @ www.goodsearch.com

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• ZabaSearch: Search People by Name, Address & Phone Number
• Yauba: Anonymous Search Engine
• Yahoo Glue: All Search Results On One Page
• WuZAM : MP3 Search Engine
• Wolfram Alpha Google: Adds Wolfram Alpha Search Results Next To Google’s

The application provides a good overview of the subject by displaying information from a large number of websites in different visual ways instead of showing only text results.

The videos are embedded and can be watched without leaving the site. It also provides filters and related words to further navigate the topic.

Features

• Enables visualizing search results on grid interface.
• Results are pulled from different web sources.
• Better overview of the subject.
• List of related words for better exploration.
• Option to filter results.
• Videos can be watched at the same page.

Check out Spezify @ www.spezify.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• Similar-Images: Similar Images Search From Google
• PicClick: Visual Search Engine For eBay And Amazon
• Modista: Visual Shopping Site For Shoes And Handbags
• Like.com: Shop for Bags, Shoes & Dresses from TV and Photos
• Facesaerch: Face Search Engine

Site employs an “infinite scrolling” feature, which lets you view more image results each time you scroll down the page.

Features:

• Real time image search for images shared on twitter
• View newest image results based on how frequently they are shared and discussed on Twitter
• Image search results are automatically updated every second
• Keep scrolling down the page to view more results

Check out PicFog @ www.picfog.com

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• Yammer – A Twitter For Businesses and Enterprises
• wwwitter: See Twitter Discussions For Any Webpage
• WeFollow: User Powered Twitter Directory
• Utterz: Post Voice Messages to your Blog, Twitter, … from Phone
• Untiny: Extract the Original URL Behind The Short URL

Collecta is an actual real-time tool and does not include the results even if they have been posted just a minute before your search. You also have an option to pause your searching if you are getting too many results.

Features:

• Real-time search engine.
• See what’s hot on the web right now.
• Narrow your search to just photos, stories or comments.
• Keep track of your search history.

Check out Collecta @ www.collecta.com (by Tehseen from Ijaar.com)

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• Zvents: Find Events in Your Area
• Zapproved: Web based Decision Making Tool
• YourLi.st : Get Event Reminders by eMail
• Yotify.com: Stay Notified About Content You Are Interested In
• Yahoo Upcoming: Upcoming Events Locator for Your Area

There is also the advanced search option that allows users to search recipes by the number of ingredients, minimum recipe rating or restrict results only to recipes with images.

Watch RecipePuppy demo video below:

Features:

• Food recipes search engine.
• Search recipes by ingredients and keywords from multiple recipe websites including AllRecipes.com, FootNetwork, Cooks.com and others.
• Filter results by including/excluding ingredients with one click.
• Other recipe websites: CookThink, Foodista and Cookstr.

Check out RecipePuppy @ www.recipepuppy.com

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• Cookstr : Great Recipes From Around the World
• MyFridgeFood: Find Recipes With Ingredients You Have
• Foodista: Wiki Site For Recipes
• RecipeMatcher
• NibbleDish: Unique Recipes from Food Lovers

BlindSearch offers a fool proof test to check which search engine is the best one, at least for certain post querries. It works well because your decision is purely based on the search results and not on your earlier search experiences with one or the other search engine.

Check out BlindSearch @ http://blindsearch.fejus.com

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• Google Squared: Organize Search Results Like Never Before
• WikiMatrix: Compare Wiki Platforms
• Waitable: Price Watcher and Comparison Tool in one
• ViewLike.us: Test Website In Different Resolutions
• Ultrasonic-Ringtones: Download Ultrasonic Ringtones & Test Your Hearing

You can customize the columns by adding or eliminating one or more columns according to your need. You can also save and share these tables(or squares) with others.

Features :

• Facts organized as a table of items and attributes
• Easy comparison between different items of same category
• Customizable, hence you can see only those items or features you are interested in
• Source of information mentioned in the blocks
• You can save and share the squares

Check out Google Squared @ www.google.com/squared (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• Wolfram Alpha Google: Adds Wolfram Alpha Search Results Next To Google’s
• Goofram: Search Google and Wolfram Alpha at the Same Time
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Just enter a book’s title, author or ISBN number into the search field and click “Find Book”. Filter results by condition, price, binding and attributes. Sign up for an account to buy books online.

Features:

• Search for used, rare and out-of-print books and textbooks online.
• More than 50 million books from over 5500 independent bookstores worldwide.
• Browse books by condition, price, binding and other attributes.
• Find used bookstores by name or by country.
• Sign up to buy hard to find books online.

Check out Biblio @ www.biblio.com

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• Zoomii : Virtual Bookstore for Amazon Books
• Wowio : Download Copyrighted eBooks for Free. Legally.
• Wowbrary: Get Alerts on New Book Arrivals From Your Library
• WitGuides: Find And Download Ebooks
• WhichBook: Online Book Suggestion Tool

Moreover it provides you with two additional buttons. First is to show or hide the Wolfram Alpha results from the page. And the other one is a link that opens in a new tab and shows full search results from Wolfram Alpha.

Features:

• Get Wolfram Alpha search results in Google.
• Options to show or hide the Wolfram Aplha results.
• A quick link to redo the search in Wolfram Alpha, in a different browser tab.
• Enable or disable  Firefox Addon with just one click.

Check out Wolfram Alpha Google @ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12006 (via Webware) (by Srikanth AD from Firefox Ninjas).

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• UnifiedSearch: Unified Search Engine Comparison Tool
• SemantiFind: Cool Suggestion Tool for Searching on Google
• Search Cloudlet: Google Tag Search
• Kosmix: Get Everything On One Search Results Page
• Identify: Get Information About Anyone on Social Sites

Features:

• Face search on Google Images.
• Easily navigate through images with horizontal controls.
• Search results powered by Google.

Check out Facesaerch @ www.facesaerch.com

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• ZabaSearch: Search People by Name, Address & Phone Number
• Similar-Images: Similar Images Search From Google
• Find A Grave: Search 27 Million Cemetery Records
• Behold: High Quality Image Search For Flickr
• 123People: Find A Person You’re Looking For

Sperse searches multiple engines and remove duplicate results in order to provide the user with more accurate and relevant results. In addition to the traditional web pages, Sperse also allows you to search images, news, music, video and much more. One of the coolest features that Sperse offers is the ability to preview the webpage directly from the search results.

Main features of Sperse:

• Smart meta search engine that combines results from Google, Yahoo! and Ask.
• Filters out duplicate results for better accuracy and relevancy.
• Search the web, images, videos, music and even local listings.
• A real-time thumbnail preview accompanies each search result.
• Narrow your search by location using zip codes.
• Type a question and get an answer using Yahoo! answers.

Check out Sperse @ www.sperse.com (by Tehseen Baweja from RechargeYourMind.com)

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• Triplify: Compare Google, Yahoo & Live Search Results
• TorrentSurf: Search 14 Leading Torrent Engines At Once
• ScrapeTorrent: Search Major Torrent Sites At Once
• Qtorrents: Search Multiple Torrent Sites

But when you search with a picture, you are likely to get mostly relevant results since it will search for images similar to the picture you selected.

To make use of similar image search feature, first you have to search for an image using keywords. When you found an image relevant to what you expected, click on “Similar images” below it to find other similar pictures.

For more info watch demo video below:

Features:

• Search and find similar images using other pictures instead of keywords.
• Get more relevant image results.
• To use, search for images with a keyword, find a relevant image and click “Similar image” below to find other similar pictures.

Check out Google Similar Images @ http://similar-images.googlelabs.com

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Features:

• Search for free manuals one place.
• Over 5 million free manuals for wide variety of topics.
• Get links to manuals in PDF or HTML format.
• Install the plugin to search directly from your browser search bar.
• Similar sites: OwnerIQ and SafeManuals.

Check out The-Manuals @ www.the-manuals.com

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• SafeManuals : User Manuals for any Gadget
• OwnerIQ: Download Free User Manuals for Products
• ManualsOnline: Over 300,000 Free Downloadable Manuals
• GadgetTeardowns: How To Disassemble Popular Gadgets
• WireWize : “How To Connect” Guides for Home Electronics

You can also subscribe to RSS feed of a particular search term (ex: Ashton Kutcher) to keep track of the topic updates on your feed reader.

Features:

• Real time search engine.
• Search news and posts published in the last few minutes.
• Scans Twitter, Facebook status updates and feeds of popular news sites and blogs.
• Top search results are less 1 hour old.
• Subscribe by RSS to keep track of a topic within your browser.

Check out itpints @ www.itpints.com

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• Txtful: Provides Shortcuts For Gettting Things Done Online
• Summize : Real-Time Twitter Search Engine
• SocialStatusGenerator: Create Catchy Status Messages
• SocialRibbon: The Ribbon Creator
• Sayabit: Upload Files and Share Them via Short URLs

When it come to Omgili it’s a search engine for searching forums, discussion boards mailing lists and pretty any kind of online message boards. It analyzes and differentiates between discussion entities such topic, title, replies, date etc., and sorts search results accordingly to get you the most timely and relevant information.

Furthermore, Omgili has a couple of additional services like

- Omgili Buzz: daily overview of most popular discussion topics
- Omgili Q&A: searches only Q&A sites.

Features:

• Discussion boards and forums search engine.
• Omgili indexes millions of online discussions from over 100,000 boards.
• Additional Omgili services: Omgili Buzz, Q&A, TV Shows and more.
• Site also available in Hebrew and Japanese languages.

Check out Omgili @ www.omgili.com

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