Search Engine Mania
This post comes straight from a longtime reader. Thanks for the list, Mark!
A colleague just shared this list with me, and I thought this might be something to include on your list of free and low-cost tools. With so many ways to search the Internet now, you shouldn’t necessarily stop just because you don’t find what you’re looking for with the first search engine you first try!
www.goodsearch.com – when you use this one, they will donate money to a charity/cause of your choosing, or to the one they have chosen for the day – makes you feel good!
www.cuil.com (pronounced “cool”) – searches for and ranks pages based on their content and relevance. It claims to have a larger index than any other search engine.
www.gapminder.org – you can view statistics in kind-of a 3-D bubble graph the moves as the data/facts/dates/ increase.
www.waybackmachine.com – you can find the original link for anything that has been online…the archived version.
www.bing.com – very similar to yahoo.com and google.com
www.searchme.com – Multimedia searches
www.blinkx.com – you can enter a word/phrase and any video that has this word/phrase in the text should appear – this one is fun!
Other Tools You May Like:
- Ninite: A super-cool way to download common free programs
- GIMP: Photoshop for free
- Elance: Freelance Database for Every Item on Your To Do List
- Dabble DB: Online databases anyone can use
- K9 Web Protection: Control your internet usage
