Do you remember being able to exclude certain results from Google Search based on the website URL? If you do, then you probably remember how useful that feature was in filtering out websites that you do not wish to check out. Unfortunately that feature has now been discontinued and you need third party applications to [...]
Do you want to be able to quickly search for a word that you find on a webpage? Perhaps you would like to find out its meaning or perhaps you would want to see if there are any files for it available on your favorite torrents website? All you need to do is add the [...]
Twitter’s search tool is notoriously unreliable, and remains one of the service’s major complaints among users. Facebook is a closed social network, and that makes searching even public entities like company pages a drag – not to mention you need an account. That’s why tools for sifting through the endless volumes of social media updates [...]
Anybody who has used a search engine knows that one usually has to open up a bunch of links before finding a webpage that is of actual use. But knowing which search results to click on can be greatly helped by using a tool called SearchPreview. SearchPreview is a browser tool that helps you find [...]
There are many factors that one has to consider when checking out apartments. When we previously reviewed Lovely, we found a nice tool that helps you find apartments by location. Now, they have built a new search tool that focuses on photos with a Pinterest-style layout. Called Lovelylabs’s Pinterest tool, this tool should help you [...]
The Internet has massively evolved over the last decade, to the benefit of the world’s population. When Google was first founded, it’s search results were, like most other search engines’ results, mediocre at best. Today, however, we really don’t have to worry too much about finding what we want when we use these search engines. [...]
The CTRL+F hotkey combination makes it very easy for you to find specific words and phrases on a webpage. But what if you wanted to search for multiple words on a page and have them all highlighted? Here to help you do that is a tool called Pearls Extension. Pearls Extension is a browser extension [...]
If you have a load of tabs open, it can prove challenging to find something particular in one of them. Let’s say you are researching something, and you have a bunch of sites open on that topic, but you forget where a certain piece of useful information is hiding. What can you do? Simple, you [...]
The web is full of music, but this abundance becomes a problem when you no longer know where you would find a specific track or album. MusicSmasher is a simple web app that helps you find music by searching across the web’s 5 most popular music services. This includes Spotify, GrooveShark, Rdio, SoundCloud, MOG and [...]
When searching for the same word or phrase on multiple webpages, it becomes annoying that Firefox doesn’t remember the word or phrase and you have to re-enter it every time. FindList solves this problem by saving your last 50 webpage searches into a drop-down list. It eliminates the re-typing or copy-pasting of keywords when doing [...]
There are a number of photo apps for iOS devices, the ones that allow you to either take photos and customize them directly or decorate the photos you have in your albums through filters, effects etc. A lot of these photos are public and Teleportd – in their own words – wants to make sense [...]
SearchCo.de is a very specialized search service focused on programming codes and snippets. When you enter a keyword, SearchCode looks through thousands of programming websites, documents and manuals to see if its part of a programming language. If found, SearchCo.de not only lists the full command, but also provides the complete syntax of using the [...]
While Google and Bing are excellent search engines, they do not always provide you with results that have been shared the most on networks like Facebook and Twitter. If you are looking for socially popular results then you should check out an engine called Jawoco. Jawoco is a free to use web service that lets [...]
You might be aware of a tool called Google Trends that shows search trends for a particular query over a certain period of time. The way Google Trends works is that you enter the query and it’ll show you the corresponding graph and figures. Google Correlate is the reverse of that. Here you are the [...]
If you want to add a search feature to your static site, you will find a web service called Tapingo to be very helpful. It is a free web service that helps you easily get a search for your static pages. The site accomplishes its task by making use of your blog’s RSS feed. After [...]
Are you stuck looking for hotels or places to stay that is almost what you are looking for, but not quite there yet? If so, then you should check out Find I Like. This app is a search engine for hotels that relies on your preferences and personal tastes. Instead of the usual filters based [...]
Twitter and Facebook are rapidly becoming a huge repository of information and one of the biggest search portals. However, these networks have certain restrictions when looking for information. For example, Twitter only allows you to search for tweets within the last two weeks at the most. SocialSearching is a tool that makes this easier by [...]
Tools that let you find places are a dime a dozen. But very few tools actually put the search results into the context of time and location. Open Near Me is a tool exactly like that, as it lets you search for businesses that are near your location and are open at that given time. [...]
Google search results can be overwhelming so what better way to refine them than seeing what your friends recommend. Google +Like is a browser extension that puts a Facebook Like button next to every Google search result so you can see what your friends liked. The extension works on Internet Explorer, Chrome as well as [...]
Speechify is a Google Chrome extension that makes your life easier by not having to type every time you want to search something. Once installed, this Chrome extension adds a microphone icon to the search box of most search engines and popular websites. Whenever you want to do a search, simply click on the icon [...]