Search engines normally focus on automatically providing you with the latest and most relevant results. However they do not let you filter the results. Blekko, however, is one search engine that gives you a lot more control over the search results you see. Blekko is essentially a search engine. By default the results it displays [...]
Social services like Facebook, Twitter and FourSquare all have options to search but what if you cannot determine which one of these contains the information you are looking for? Sentimnt can help in such situations. Sentimnt serves as your personalized search engine by letting you search sites like Facebook, Twitter and even your RSS feeds [...]
If you’ve ever performed a Google search on a current topic and been frustrated by the months old results that Google returned, you’ll really like NowRelevant. Unlike Google or other conventional search engines that sort their results according to some variation of a page ranking algorithm, NowRelevant returns results from the last two weeks only for [...]
It was only a matter of time before developers started utilizing the Google Instant Search technology to incorporate similar changes to other products. YouTube Instant is the first service to do so. As the name indicates, it produces instant YouTube videos as you type your query. It immediately starts playing the most popular video related [...]
The Internet has done a great job of allowing people to seek knowledge. In addition to millions of webpages, there are also various websites where users can ask questions from other users. Such sites provide a great source of first hand knowledge. BeenAsked is a web service that makes this even better by letting you [...]
Have you ever tried to Google how many pounds equal a kilogram? If yes, then you will have noticed that Google presented the conversion factor right at the top of the results. Similarly there are other tricks that Google responds to in a direct way e.g. the weather of your city. To check out which [...]
Google has solutions both for searching the internet and your hard drive. However, these tools don’t help when it comes to your online life that is scattered across various social networks, email accounts and media platforms. Greplin is a free personal search engine that solves this problem by letting you search all your web data [...]
The iPhone may be one of the coolest gadgets around but when it comes to search nobody innovates like Google. The most recent example of this is the GestureSearch app for the Android phone. GestureSearch allows you to search android phone by simply drawing the letters on your screen using your finger. As you draw [...]
I am a big fan of Google Search. But sometimes I mistakenly execute searches in “˜web’ when I actually want image or video results. Shifting from the web to image results requires an additional mouse click, which I would be happy to eliminate. That is where Nibbo comes into play. Nibbo is a search engine [...]
Bing and Google are my favorite search engines and I execute searches on both. For other Bing and Google loving people like me, Bingle was created. 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 [...]