CC Search is a free media search engine that scans metadata associated with media; this enables it to give you access to the freely licensed content available from many popular content providers such as Blip, Flickr, Fotopedia, Google, Jamendo, Open Clip Art Library, SpinXpress, and Wikipedia Commons.

You select your source according to your desired media type: images, vector images, audio files, or videos. Then choose to search for media that is free to use commercially and/or can be modified. The search results are displayed on the source site’s page as if you conducted the search on the source site itself.

You can also choose the site’s old interface and view the results under CC Search’s own frame. The older interface also makes it easier to jump from one source to another through tabbed buttons.

Features:

• A user friendly media search engine.
• Lets you search for cc content that is free to use commercially.
• Searches a number of popular content providers.
• Lets you search for images, vector images, audio files, and videos.

Check out “CC Search” @ labs.creativecommons.org/demos/search/search1 (by MOin from ThumbPress)

As you start typing, Instantise will not only show search suggestions but also display results while you type. For example if you are searching for a song on YouTube, Instantise will try to guess the song while you type and start playing it. The results will change dynamically with each additional letter you type in the search box.

The tool has a great functionality with a simple interface. As more and more web services start adopting the instant feature, the technology will change the way we search.

Features:

• Adds instant search feature to top sites.
• Suported sites: Google, Youtube, Maps, Images
• See search results while you type.
• Supports 8 different web services.
• No registration required.

Visit Instantise @ www.instantise.com [Via TechCrunch]

This eliminates the need to jump from one site to another in the hope of finding information and lets you search everything at one. Simply enter the question you are seeking the answer to and BeenAsked will search the archive compiled of multiple different websites for your answer.

Once the question is displayed, you can view the answer on the external website, see how recent the question is, view the source where the question was originally asked and even add your own comments if you know the answer.

You can also browse through some recently asked questions and browse information using recent tags or popular tags. BeenAsked crawls these resources pretty frequently so you can also find questions that have been asked just a few minutes ago. You can also view related questions for any topic and sort comments by popularity or time. You do not need to register to use the service.

Features:

• Search multiple Questions/Answers sites from a single platform.
• Browse recently added questions.
• Browse by recent or popular tags.
• View related questions and post comments.
• View the complete archive of questions.
• No registration required.

Visit BeenAsked @ www.beenasked.com

You start by entering your zip code and then a search radius. The radius can be anything from 25 miles to the whole world. Next you enter the keywords of what you are searching for. You can also specify a category and subcategory.

Minimum and maximum prices can help filter the results and so can the option to view only picture-included results. Optionally you can also include search results from eBay and Amazon. Your search results are presented with the nearest ones to your zip code on top.

To get to the eBay or Amazon results, simply scroll down to the bottom of the page.

Features:

• A user friendly site.
• Lets you execute searches on Craigslist and include results from eBay and Amazon.
• Lets you specify the radius of the search to a given zip code.
• You can narrow down your search through various parameters.
• Similar tools: GarageSalesTracker, goSnipe, Flippity, Gixen and Q-compare.
• Also read related articles:
  5 Tools To Make Craigslist Even More Useful.
  Shop Like a PRO: 7 Tools to Crack eBay
  3 Best Amazon Price Track Solutions.

Check out “Search Tempest” @ www.searchtempest.com (via Lifehacker) (by MOin from ThumbPress)

As you can tell from the name, Bingle is Bing (+Goog)le. The site is a search engine tool to search bing and google at the same time. When you type in a search query on Bingle and “bingle” it, a webpage opens with Bing results in the left pane and Google results in the right pane.

The results are separated in a distinguishable way. You can scroll each page separately. Not only does this feature work for simple web searches, but on Bingle’s homepage you can choose any search type (web, images, videos, maps, shopping, and news). Alternatively you can change the search type in the top left of the results page.

Features:

• Combines search results from Bing and Google, and shows them together.
• Search types include web, images, videos, maps, shopping, and news.
• Search results are distinguishably separated for clarity.
• The perfect tool for Bing and Google fans.
• Similar tools: Limmz, Favitt, Searchzooka, SearchOpener and ShinySearch.
• Also read related articles:
  How To Search Multiple Social Media Sites At A Time
  Videosurf ““ One Video Search Engine for All Video Sites
  4 Multi-Search Engines to Consider for Your Home Page.

Check out Bingle @ www.bingle.nu (by MOin from ThumbPress)

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)

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

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)

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

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