Trademarkia can help new and existing businesses by searching through every trademark registered in the US since 1870 to see if they’re breaking any laws. There are several different search functions for all different kinds of trademarks such as brands, names and logos.

Above you can see how I searched for ‘lion’ under the logo search function. I was given every logo registered since 1870 that depicts a lion in anyway. These ranged from modern services and company logos to old emblems dating back to the 19^th century that were used for local militias and organizations in the US.

You can also search for trademarks (both active and dead) registered by different companies and by their theme or subject matter.

This is a very useful resource for companies which could save them a lot of money by not employing people to do this research for them.

Check out Trademarkia @ www.tradmarkia.com (by Dean Sherwin)

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• Google Patents : Comprehensive Patent Search Engine
• FreePatentsOnline : Patent Search Engine
• Zillow
• Zapproved: Web based Decision Making Tool
• Zamabook: Web Based Appointment Scheduling Service

Features:

• Find the best deals on event tickets.
• Searches a huge number of ticketing sites to aggregate and filter the data.
• Robust filtering mechanism which sorts tickets based on various parameters.
• Compare tickets based on prices, seating, section and more.
• Buy directly from the site.
• Similar sites: Tickex,  TicketStumbler and FanSnap.

Check out Ticketflow @www.ticketflow.com [via TechCrunch] (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• Tickex : Ticket Search Engine
• TicketPredator: Online Ticket Price Comparison For US Events
• TicketStumbler: Find, Compare And Buy Sports Tickets
• TicketsFTW: Comparing Ticket Prices Made Simple
• SeatQuest: Get Best Seats in the Venue for Your Budget

Almost every setting in the add-on is customizable. It is such a powerful tool with so many features that it is hard to describe it in a single article. Watch video below to see it in action:

Though the extension is in the experimental mode, it has got some great reviews by the users which means that it works quite well.

Check out Searchbastard Firefox add-on @ addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8030 (by Abhijeet from Appscrazy)

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• Unlinker: Quickly See Full Images Behind Links or Thumbnails
• SiteLauncher: Launch Favorite Websites with Simple Shortcuts
• Search Cloudlet: Google Tag Search
• OpenItOnline: Open Files Online
• MultiLinks: Multiple Link Opener & Bookmarker

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

This site is in many ways similar to previously profiled PDF search tools like PDFgeni and Data-Sheet but also has some extra features like previewing number of pages document has, language, related tags and creation date.

Features:

• Search only PDF files online.
• Preview files before downloading. View number of pages, language of the files, related tags and creation date.
• Free, no registration needed.
• You may be also interested in our article about best sites to get free document templates.

Check out PDFind @ www.pdfind.com

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• Data-Sheet : PDF Search Engine
• ShareMiner: Search Web for Files
• PDFse: Search for PDF Files on Google
• PDFgeni: Comprehensive eBook Search Tool
• Google Document Search Utility

“Sites” tab displays sites with the most relevant information about your search term. Click on a site to limit your results to that domain. To disable the plugin and return to traditional search interface click on the “Off” tab.

Apart from Google, you can use the extension to search on Yahoo and Twitter.

To see how it works watch the demo video below:

Features:

• Firefox extension that inserts tag clouds into Google, Yahoo and Twitter search pages to help you search more effectively.
• Refine your search results by clicking on related tags and sites.
• Click “Off” to disable plugin and return to traditional search interface.
• Adjust extension settings for number of cloud items in search results, font size of cloud items and level of integration with Google, Yahoo and Twitter services.
• Free just Install plugin onto your Firefox to start using.

Check out Search Cloudlet @ www.getcloudlet.com

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• Wolfram Alpha Google: Adds Wolfram Alpha Search Results Next To Google’s
• SearchBastard: Firefox Advanced Search Add-on
• KwiClick: Add Google Search and More to Right Click Menu
• kikin: Adds Social Media Search Results to Google, Bing & Yahoo
• Groovle : Custom Google Search Page

Just provide the number of letters, fill in the slots with known letters and press “Search”. It will list all the existing word variations given the provided input. By default it uses vocabulary from the British English. To change, select options from the left.

Currently it supports words from US English, British English and Swedish language vocabularies.

Features:

• Helps you to solve crossword puzzles online.
• Lists all the possible word variations given the already known letters and the number of slots in the word.
• Supports vocabularies from US English, British English and Swedish languages
• Clean interface, fast.
• Free, no registration needed.

Check out Crosstips @ www.crosstips.org

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• WordSpy: Dictionary of New Words
• WordSift: Visualize Text & Related Information
• Wordnik: Comprehensive Word Search Tool
• WordAhead: Video Vocabulary Site
• Webopedia: Dictionary Of Internet Terms And Their Meanings

If you found a relevant search from suggestions, click to select it and double click to immediately search on the destination site. To change your default search engine, click on the icon below the search field. Save search terms by dragging them to the book icon that appears on the upper left side.

The above mentioned search engines are set by default, you can easily configure to include/exclude other search engines as well. Other available engines: Live Search, eBay, Buy, Netflix, ChaCha, Cuil, QQ, GoodSearch, Yandex.ru, Naver.com, YouKu and Hulu.

Features:

• Search keyword suggestion tool that helps to find the search term you are looking for.
• Get instant search suggestions from 7 major search engines: Google, Yahoo, YouTube, Amazon, Wikipedia, Ask and Answers.
• Click once to select the search term, double click to see search results on the destination site.
• Save search terms during your browser session.
• Other available engines: Live Search, eBay, Buy, Netflix, ChaCha, Cuil, QQ, GoodSearch, Yandex.ru, Naver.com, YouKu and Hulu.
• Free and instant.

For more info watch demo below:

Check out Soovle @ www.soovle.com

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• YouTorrent : Torrent Comparison Search Engine
• You Serials : Adware-free Serial and CD Key Search Engine
• Yahoo Glue: All Search Results On One Page
• WoonzFiles: Search Rapidshare, MegaUpload, Megashares …

The process is really simple, once the add-on is installed you can highlight word or phrase on any webpage, open right-click menu and select the KwiClick. The results will be shown in a clean KwiClick window at the right bottom of your browser.

Here is the list of things you can do using KwiClick:

• View Google results on any webpage.
• Detach embedded videos from any page.
• Find delicious bookmarks about anything.
• Get your FriendFeed updates anytime.
• Read comments related to any embedded videos you find.
• Quickly email embedded videos to your friends.
• Share images and videos on social networks.
• Addreses on the webpages will become interactive maps.
• Quickly search flickr for interesting image.
• Watch popular web videos.
• Find reference information on Wikipedia.
• Look up anything across variety of services.
• Option to add and use mouse gestures.

For more info watch demo videos below:

Check out KwiClick @ www.kwiclick.com

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• ShortcutWorld: Keyboard Shortcut List For Essential Apps
• Search Cloudlet: Google Tag Search
• Pluribo: Summarize Gadget and Electronics Reviews on Amazon
• IE7 Pro : Excellent IE7 Addon
• FacePAD: Download Your Facebook Pictures (Firefox)

The site searches and lets you find people on popular social networks such as  Facebook, MySpace, Flickr, LinkedIn, Hi5, Twitter Google, Wordpress.org blogs and video sites like Vimeo. Additionally you can also make it search academic sites like MIT, Stanford, Oxford and Google Scholar.

You might also want to see other such sites which we have covered earlier PeekYou, Spock and read our related article on 3 Ways To Find People With Social Search Engines.

Check out Snitch.name @ snitch.name (Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• Spock : Free People Search
• WhitePages: Address and Phone Number Look Up
• TurnYourNameIntoaFace: Online Avatar Creator
• Pipl
• PeekYou : People Search Engine

You can search for tickets and browse them by categories such as NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, Nascar, MLS, Tennis, NCAA, WNBA… etc. When you search for a ticket the site gives you a list of prices from various ticket brokers listing the cheapest first.

Features

• Compare ticket prices for US events.
• Tickets are compared across 400 hundreds online ticket brokers.
• Search and browse tickets by category.
• No registration is needed
• Similar sites: Tickex, Bandsintown, TicketStumble and FanSnap.

Visit TicketPredator @ www.ticketpredator.com (Contributed by Wim Permana from Wimkhan)

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• Tickex : Ticket Search Engine
• TicketsFTW: Comparing Ticket Prices Made Simple
• TicketFlow: Get Best Ticket Deals For Events
• SeatQuest: Get Best Seats in the Venue for Your Budget
• RoosterFly: Compare Event Ticket Prices

The interesting thing is that it doesn’t display a box which has web search results from Google, Yahoo or any other search engine. So it does display a lot of information from various sources about the search term but it has chosen to keep aside the conventional web search from its results.

Check out Yahoo Glue @ glue.yahoo.com ( Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog )

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• PDFind: PDF Document Search Engine
• Joongel: Search For Stuff Only On Most Popular Sites
• Zillow
• ZabaSearch: Search People by Name, Address & Phone Number
• YouTorrent : Torrent Comparison Search Engine

Features:

• Search Twitter by tags
• Pick from tag cloud or type your own tag to search
• Simple user interface
• Search results grouped under various categories

Also see Summize, a real-time Twitter search engine that we covered earlier. TweetScan is another good one.

Check out Tweetag @ www.tweetag.com ( Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog )

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• TweetScan : Live Twitter Search Engine
• TagsAhoy: Search Your Tags From One Location
• Zillow
• YouTorrent : Torrent Comparison Search Engine
• You Serials : Adware-free Serial and CD Key Search Engine

Features:

• Search on most popular sources on the internet.
• Search top sites in images, music, videos, shopping, Q & A, health, torrents, and other categories.
• Install the Joongel Search Plugin to search directly from your browser’s search bar (Firefox and IE 7).
• No sign up needed.
• Similar sites: Search.io and Hittery.

Check out Joongel @ www.joongel.com

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• Yahoo Glue: All Search Results On One Page
• UnifiedSearch: Unified Search Engine Comparison Tool
• Triplify: Compare Google, Yahoo & Live Search Results
• TorrentSurf: Search 14 Leading Torrent Engines At Once
• Sputtr : Build Your Ultimate Search Page

Features:

• Search for favorite music albums and discover similar ones.
• Interactive visual interface.
• Watch YouTube videos for tracks in particular music album.
• Check out related reviews and Wikipedia articles.
• No sign up or registration needed.

Check out MusicMesh @ www.musicmesh.net/

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• Woonz : Find, Play and Download Music Tracks
• Tagoo: Great Audio & Video Search Engine
• Songza: Online Music Search & Internet Jukebox
• SearchHacker: Search Everything from one Place
• Middio: Watch Music Videos Online

The data can be easily filtered by a variety of factors such as time, location and categories. To get a better idea about the whole thing check out the popularity comparison for following search terms: oil prices vs. electric car, call of duty 2 vs. battlefield 2142 or yankees vs. red sox.

Features:

• Compare search keyword popularity across regions, categories, and time frames.
• Filter obtained data by region, time period and category.
• The result are presented with easy to grasp charts and maps.
• Export and download data in .CSV format.
• Also see related news headlines.
• For more information on how you can make use of Google Insights go here.

Check out Google Insights @ www.google.com/insights

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• Search Cloudlet: Google Tag Search
• Groovle : Custom Google Search Page
• Google Web History
• Google Trends
• Google Patents : Comprehensive Patent Search Engine

The results are ranked based on 3 factors such as comfort, speed and ease. These are further subdivided into things like security wait time, number of stops, legroom, connection time, aircraft type, gate location, baggage loss rate and so on.

When searching for flights you can specify which of those are important to you and let InsideTrip find the best flights for your needs. The results are ranked from the most to least convenient one (see this in the above screenshot).

Features:

• Find the best flight for your needs.
• Filter results further by depart/arrival time, connection waiting duration, airline and airport.
• Criteria: Number of stops, Travel duration, On-time stats, Security wait time, Legroom, Aircraft type, Aircraft age, Historical load factor, Connect time, Routing quality, Lost bags rank and Gate location.

Check out InsideTrip @ www.insidetrip.com

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• Yapta: Get Refund on Flight Tickets
• Traveas: Track Flight Information On your Cellphone
• SleepingInAirports: Traveler’s Guide to Sleeping in Airports
• SeatGuru
• SeatExpert: Airline Seat Reviews and Seat Maps

Supported sites:

YouTube, mySpace, Yahoo Video, AOL Uncut, Blinkx, Blip.tv, Break.com, Breaktaker, Brightcove, Buzznet, Clevver, ClipFish, ClipShack, Crackle, Dailymotion, Dalealplay, Dave.tv, eSnips, Eyespot, Filecabi, Flixya, Flukiest, Flurl, Gocujo, GoFish, Google Video, Guba, Hot Clips, iKlipz, Imeem, Jubii, Jumpcut, Kewego, LiveLeak, LiveVideo, MedicineFilms, Motionbox, Mpora, myVideo.de, Nelsok, Netlog, NothingToxic, OnfuegO, Photobucket, Porkolt, PureVideo, RuTube, SelfcastTV, ShareNow, Sharkle, ShowMeHowTo, Smart Video, Snotr, Spymac, Stickam, StupidVideos, Sumo.tv, That Video Site, TinyPic, TV.com, Twango, uGoto, Veoh,Viddler, Video Bomb, VideoJug, Videolog.tv, VideoSift, VideoVat, vidiLife, Vidivodo, Vidmax, Vodpod, vSocial, VuMe, YouAreTV, Your Daily Media, Your Open Media, Zango, Zeec, ZippyVideos, AtomFilms, Broadbandsports, Gkko, Glumbert, Lulu TV, Metacafe, Putfile, Revver, Shoutfile, Spike/iFilm, Vimeo.

One handy feature is the search addon. You can add VideoFetcher Search to your browser search bar. Can come in handy if you regularly search on sites like YouTube.

There is also a search widget for iGoogle users.

Check out VideoFetcher @ www.videofetcher.com

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• Yuscano : Skim Through Popular Youtube Videos
• YoutubeDesktop: Cool Youtube Browser (and Downloader)
• Vizzl: YouTube, Ebay & Amazon Visual Search Tool
• VidToMP3 : Online Video to MP3 Audio Converter
• Totlol : Videos for Todlers, Infants, Preschoolers and Parents

Features:

• Search for hospitals in your area and see type of services they offer.
• Get address, phone number, website link etc.
• No sign-up or registration needed.
• Works only for hospitals within United States

Check out US Hospital Finder @ www.ushospitalfinder.com

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• HealthVault: Collect, Manage, and Share Health Records
• ZocDoc: Dentist Search + Appointments
• UCompareHealthcare: Compare Local Healthcare Providers
• RateMDs: Review Your Doctor & Read Ratings of Other Doctors
• MiVitals : Store and Share Health Records Online

We have already profiled a patent search tool earlier, it’s called FreePatentsOnline. However Google Patents is a lot better. It’s a lot more than just a patent search tool, and is more like a massive patent information database. On each patent page you can see:

(1) Patent summary: All important details summarizing the patent. These includes dates of interest, associated parties and classifications.

(2) Patent Claims: Lists the specific claims made by the patent.

(3) Drawings and Pictures: Thumbnail shots of pictures found in the the patent.

(4) Option to search within that specific patent.

(5) Citations: List of patents that are cited by the patent.

(6) References: List of patents that reference the given patent.

Furthermore, you can read the full patent contents online or download and save it to your PC as PDF document. And another really useful fetaure is the advanced patent search. Using this search option you can find almost any patent you need by applying a whole bunch of filters.

Check out Google Patents @ www.google.com/patents

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• Trademarkia: Search US Registered Trademarks
• Search Cloudlet: Google Tag Search
• Patents.com: Search Through Patents Effectively
• Mashspots: Cool Local Business Locator on Google Maps
• Groovle : Custom Google Search Page

Features:

• Find and download data sheets, reports, ebooks etc.
• Save downloaded documents as PDF.
• See recent and most popular datasheet searches.
• No sign-up or registration needed.

Check out Data-Sheets @ www.data-sheet.net

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• PDFind: PDF Document Search Engine
• PDFse: Search for PDF Files on Google
• PDFgeni: Comprehensive eBook Search Tool
• DocuFarm: Online Document Search and Viewer
• WitGuides: Find And Download Ebooks

” … a free site, developed by Southern Codes, for finding all kind of sound FX and musical instruments samples.”

Soungle is not an audio sound search engine, it only searches one huge constantly growing database. If you can’t find the effect you’re looking for then check out previously covered FindSounds. Maybe you’ll find it there. Both of these websites are pretty good.

Features:

• Search, preview and download sound effects.
• View frequency, duration and bit rate for each sound.

Check out Soungle @ www.soungle.com

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• SoundSnap: Search, Save and Share Sound Effects
• SoundJay: Free Collection Of Sound Effects
• SoundBible: Free To Download MP3 & WAV Sounds
• AudienceSounds: Fun Collection Of Crowd & People Sounds
• Yahoo! Media Player: Embedable MP3 Player

Other Rapidshare Search Engines

• Rapidshare1 – Add file search to Firefox search bar.
• FilesTube – Search files by type, stream MP3s directly from the website etc.
• WoonzFiles – Search files by file type, search for shared files on other file sharing networks etc.

Check out TotMe @ www.totme.com

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• Rapidshare1 : Rapidshare Search Engine
• FilesTube : ‘File Sharing’ Search Engine
• FileSnatcher : Search for Files on Major File Sharing Sites
• WoonzFiles: Search Rapidshare, MegaUpload, Megashares …
• UploadJockey: Share files on Several File-sharing Networks

There are plenty of popular websites that offer free serials and CD Keys. The problem with most of such websites, they are full of adware and spy bots. In exchange for a serial number or CD key people are asked to sign-up or install some kind of craplet. A quick Google search for ‘some commercial program serial’ should give you a pretty good idea about how hard it is to find a working serial.

You Serials is probably the cleanest serial and CD key search engine out there. As stated on their website, “the website is designed to provide its users with a directory of information of serial numbers which is compiled by other users…”.

It claims to have neary 55.000 serials (Microsoft Office, Windows XP, Windows XP Pro, Nero 8 Ultra Edition, Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Office 2007, Plus Microsoft Office 2008, NOD32 Antivirus, etc). There is no need to sign-up or install anything. Search, Find and Copy the serial. It also shows the most popular, top 100 and recently added serials and CD keys.

Furthermore, there is a browser addon that lets you search on YouSerials without going to the website first.

Check out You Serials @ www.youserials.com

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• YouTorrent : Torrent Comparison Search Engine
• Yahoo Glue: All Search Results On One Page
• Wowio : Download Copyrighted eBooks for Free. Legally.
• WoonzFiles: Search Rapidshare, MegaUpload, Megashares …

Btdig is not the first such search engine we have profiled. Other torrent search tools you might to take a look are NowTorrents, CompleTorrent and YouTorrent. Each of them has something unique to offer. CompleTorrents scans more torrent indexes, YouTorrent is pretty, Nowtorrent claims to filter fake torrents and so on. There is also a PizzaTorrent which I have briefly covered in 7 Apps to Make Most of Torrents.

Check out Btdig @ www.btdig.com

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• NowTorrents : Real-time Torrent Search
• YouTorrent : Torrent Comparison Search Engine
• WoonzFiles: Search Rapidshare, MegaUpload, Megashares …
• TotMe : RapidShare File Search
• SearchHacker: Search Everything from one Place

The search engine works quite well. I tried couple of searches and in both cases found what I was looking for. Sometimes it gives a direct PDF link, in other cases you might need to dowload the torrent and use the torrent client. Overall, it’s a very useful engine. Highly recommended.

Check PDF Search Engine @ www.pdf-search-engine.com

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• WitGuides: Find And Download Ebooks
• PDFse: Search for PDF Files on Google
• PDFind: PDF Document Search Engine
• PDFgeni: Comprehensive eBook Search Tool
• LazyLibrary: Search Engine for Short Books

Unlike other “command line” search engines, Katapulco separates the shortcut from the query and all the commands are shortcuts of less than three characters. It also loads in less than a second (on a T1 line).

If set as a home page, Katapulco can be used as a pop-up search console. Want to look up a word? Ctrl-N brings a new browser window with Katapulco for you to search. Once done, doing Alt-F4 should shut it down and let you return to what you were doing. Katapulco is for users who hate to waste time. Using Katapulco, they can query multiple search engines without having to visit each site.

Key Features:

• Allows personalization without the need to register or open an account.
• Simple on purpose for quick loading times. It loads in 0.96 seconds on a T1 line.
• To date, there are 139 search engines available and they are adding more every week.
• Users who prefer to use the mouse can still enter keywords and click on the search engine of their choice.
• Shortcuts are separated from the search query, making it easy to come back and change just the shortcut to try a different search engine.

Go to Katapulco @ www.katapulco.com

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• Serchilo : One Search Engine for Every Search Type
• SiteLauncher: Launch Favorite Websites with Simple Shortcuts
• ShortcutWorld: Keyboard Shortcut List For Essential Apps
• KeyXL: Keyboard Shortcuts for any App
• Zillow

One of the better ones is a file search engine that can be used to search web for different types of files. Check it out in the screenshot below.

There is also a music search engine that can be used to find free MP3s and Song Lyrics. Quite handy. It comes with its own search tagcloud that shows you the most popular searches.

Other search engines include:

- General web search
- Webcam search
- Job Search
- Wallpaper search
- Video Search (Youtube, Dailymotion, Metcafe etc.)
- Search for Answers on Q&A websites
- Search for the lowest product prices
- Disposable password/username search

Coming Soon:

- Search live streaming TV Channels
- Search for books (for books check out Project Gutenberg)
- Search for latest World News

As usual, SearchHacker states that its service is not intended for any illegal purposes. This in particular applies to music and files search tools.

Check out SearchHacker @ www.searchhacker.com

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• FilesTube : ‘File Sharing’ Search Engine
• Cr3ation B3ta : Meta MP3 Search
• WorryAboutYou: Find, Listen and Download Songs you Like
• WoonzFiles: Search Rapidshare, MegaUpload, Megashares …
• Woonz : Find, Play and Download Music Tracks

Please note WoonzFiles is a search engine and doesn’t store the files on its servers but merely points you to the location where you can download them.

Update: The service is no longer online for alternative Rapidshare search engines check out MakeUseOf Rapidshare category.

Check out WoonzFiles @ files.woonz.com

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• TotMe : RapidShare File Search
• SearchHacker: Search Everything from one Place
• Rapidshare1 : Rapidshare Search Engine
• RapidShare
• Online Storage Services with Free Account Option (makeuseof.com)

See some examples below:

• g Fiji holiday -> Searches Google for Fiji Holiday
• w Steve Jobs -> Searches Wikipedia for Steve Jobs
• gm london – > Google Maps search for London
• a Albert Camus – Searches Amazon for Albert Camus
• ebay iPod Touch – Search ebay.com for iPod Touch
• usd-eur 200 -> Convert 200 USD to EUR
• …

To make it even better you can integrate Serchilo search directly into your browser’s search bar. Once added you will be able to use these search commands without going to the website. Registration is not required but if you register you will be able to edit existing commands or add new ones.

Check out Serchilo @ en.serchilo.net

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• Katapulco: Search the Best Search Engines using Shortcuts
• SiteLauncher: Launch Favorite Websites with Simple Shortcuts
• ShortcutWorld: Keyboard Shortcut List For Essential Apps
• KeyXL: Keyboard Shortcuts for any App
• Zillow

Features:

• Find and listen to favorite songs online.
• Organize tracks into playlists and access them from any web-enabled PC.
• Coming soon: Option to search for music videos and playlist sharing.

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• Songza: Online Music Search & Internet Jukebox
• SongBeat: Find and Play Fav. Music from Your Desktop
• SeeqPod – 1 Really Cool Site for Music and Video Clips
• MixWit : Create Digital Mix Tapes
• 8Tracks: Create, Share and Listen to Mix Tracks

One of the best Swotti features is that it pulls information from external sources and not from one centralized database. Therefore, it’s almost impossible to manipulate it. So make sure to bookmark it.

Additional Features

- View product photos
- Filter reviews by rating and category/type

Check out Swotti @ www.swotti.com

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• Retrevo
• Zillow
• YouTorrent : Torrent Comparison Search Engine
• You Serials : Adware-free Serial and CD Key Search Engine
• Yahoo Glue: All Search Results On One Page

Search on up to 25 torrent sites at once: SUMOTorrent, UseNext, Mininova, PirateBay, Torrentz, Monova, BitDig, BtJunkie , Bittorrent.am, Fenopy, Bitoogle, BushTorrent, FullDLS, Torrentz.ws, TorrentPortal, TorrentMatrix, BittorrentMonster, SeedPeer, NewTorrents, BTScene, SmaragdTorrent, myBittorrent, TorrentValley, BiteNova.

Check out LookTorrent @ www.looktorrent.com

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• YouTorrent : Torrent Comparison Search Engine
• NowTorrents : Real-time Torrent Search
• Fenopy : Torrent Search Engine
• CompleTorrent: Search on All Torrent Sites
• btJunkie : bitTorrent Search Engine

Features:

• Find and play all kind of sounds (animal, nature etc.) online.
• Download audio files in AIFF, AU, MP3, and WAVE formats.
• Filter search results by file size, sound quality, nr. channels, type and so on.
• Download sounds to your computer.
• Over 2,000,000 sound searches by approx. 250,000 users per month.

Check out FindSounds @ www.findsounds.com

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• Soungle : Free Sound Effects Website
• Zillow
• Zamzar
• YouTorrent : Torrent Comparison Search Engine
• YouConvertIt : Online File and Unit Converter

Features

• Search for symptoms, diseases, treatments etc, on top health sources on the web.
• Discover people with similar health interests and issues.
• Filter people further by gender and age.
• Connect with people who are interested in the same health topics and exchange information and tips.
• Send and receive messages to and from other members.
• Build your onw iMedix profile and add others as friends.
• Rank medical content (thumbs up/down) to make future search results more relevant/personal.

iMedix Screencast

iMedix – Best New Start-up of 2007

Check out iMedix @ www.imedix.com

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• US Hospital Finder : Find Hospitals in Your Area
• UCompareHealthcare: Compare Local Healthcare Providers
• Trusera: Get Practical Answers to Health Problems
• SymptomChecker: Check Medical Symptoms & What They Mean
• RateMDs: Review Your Doctor & Read Ratings of Other Doctors

Features

• Instantly search through latest Twitter posts.
• Add TwittScan search to Fireox search.
• Search posts from specific user.
• Set up notification alerts for new posts containing selected keywords.
• Get alerts by email or via RSS feeds.
• Turn off alerts at any time.
• RSS Searches: Follow on new search results from feedreader.

Also see Summize, another real-time Twitter search engine.

Check out TweetScan @ www.tweetscan.com

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• Vizzl: YouTube, Ebay & Amazon Visual Search Tool
• Tweetag: Twitter Tag Search Tool
• Qwitter : Helps you Quit Smoking
• oSkope: Visual Search for eBay, Youtube, Flickr …
• GetItNext : Better Way to Search eBay

Features

• Search on: Mininova, Bittorrent, Piratebay, Monova, Newtorrents, Seedpeer, Legittorrents, Torrentz, Mybittorrent, Fenopy, Btjunkie, Sumotorrent, Isohunt and FullDlls.
• Automatically highlights the search keyword (see the image above)
• Add / remove torrent sources from the search.
• Sort search results by size, nr. of seeds or peers, torrent source, date or torrent name.

Note: To be able to download the actual content that torrent file points to, you will need a separate program known as torrent client. For Windows users there is uTorrent, if you’re on a Mac check out TransmissionBT. Both of them are free and come with a user-freindly interface.

Go to NowTorrents @ www.nowtorrents.com

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• Btdig : Torrent Finder
• YouTorrent : Torrent Comparison Search Engine
• WoonzFiles: Search Rapidshare, MegaUpload, Megashares …
• TotMe : RapidShare File Search
• SearchHacker: Search Everything from one Place

Features

• Search for files on Rapidshare, Badongo, Mediafire, Sendspace and 4shared.
• Search on all or only one of the supported networks.
• Over 1.2 million files in the database.

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• TotMe : RapidShare File Search
• Rapidshare1 : Rapidshare Search Engine
• FilesTube : ‘File Sharing’ Search Engine
• WoonzFiles: Search Rapidshare, MegaUpload, Megashares …
• UploadJockey: Share files on Several File-sharing Networks

LifeHacker: “Boopsie, a free mobile search app, aims to cut down the number of keypad clicks between you and the information you’re looking for.”

There are over 100 channels in total. Search match scores, lookup stock prices, local weather reports, find phone numbers, search Wikipedia, find nearest Starbucks or FedEx store, movie reviews (via IMDB.com), area code lookup, search Amazon books, read global news and lots more. .

Features

• Live search: As you type letters, Boopsie finds and shows answers in real-time.
• Works over any data connection (GPRS, EDGE, EVDO, WiFi, 3G etc.) Basically, if you can browse web on your phone, you can most likely use Boopsie.
• Works with pretty much all popular phones (BREW, Blackberry, Java (J2ME), Palm OS, Symbian, Windows Mobile and iPhone). See a full list of supported devices here.

Boopsie video demo (no sound)

Check out Boopsie @ www.boopsie.com

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• ZYB : BackUp Your Mobile Online
• Zillow
• YouTorrent : Torrent Comparison Search Engine
• YouMail : Store and Manage Voicemail Online
• You Serials : Adware-free Serial and CD Key Search Engine

All said here is the funny part, somewhere in the footer it says : “Woonz is a search engine designed for LEGAL entertainment purposes only. This search engine is in no way intended for illegal downloads.”.

Extras:

• Search for tracks by Artist name or Song title.
• MP3 files types only. No other formats.
• Anonymous: Woonz doesn’t store or logs your IP address or what you do on the website. It only stores some non-identifying stats to analyze website usage trends. Read more in privacy section.

Check out Woonz www.woonz.com

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• WorryAboutYou: Find, Listen and Download Songs you Like
• Sideload : Online Music Locker
• MP3Realm: Find MP3s & Llisten Online
• GuerillaRadio: Search, Listen & Download MP3 Files From Web
• FilesTube : ‘File Sharing’ Search Engine