Maps
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Géoportail:
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French Geographic portal. French language only.
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Provides directions, interactive maps, and satellite/aerial imagery of the United States as well as other countries. Can also search by keyword such as type of business.
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was founded in 1967 as Cartographic Services, a division of R.R. Donnelley & Sons & became an independent company in 1994. MapQuest was acquired in 2000 by America Online, Inc.
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Michelin (Via Michelin):
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The European map specialists' webpage includes standard map features with good European coverage.
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Windows Live Maps:
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Enter an address, click enter... be sure to check out "Bird's Eye View". You can see a close-up aerial view of nearly any US Address and many foreign ones. Amazing.
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Yahoo Maps:
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Maps, directions, reverse-directions satellite view but no 'bird's-eye-view'.
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Medical
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From the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, the Bioinformatic Harvester crawls and crosslinks dozens of bioinformatic sites and serves 10's of thousands of pages daily.
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Entrez (Pubmed):
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The life sciences search engine.
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EMBL-EBI's (European Bioinformatics Institute): Open-source, high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written entirely in Java. Very fast access to the EBI's data resources.
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A division of IT Interactive Services Inc., a Canadian vertical search engine company concentrating on niche markets: health search, video games search, and local business directory search.
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Knowledge-based: GO - GeneOntology - Searching sorted - Social network and folsonomy for sciences.
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The health search engine. From the site, "The high quality and personalized health search engine".
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KMLE (King's Medical Library Engine):
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Full American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary comprehensive resource including tens of thousands of audio pronunciations and abbreviation guides.
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Medical Subject Headings (GoPubMed): Knowledge-based.
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SearchMedica:
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Professional Medical Search
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A source for health information, a symptom checklist, pharmacy information, and a place to store personal medical information.The leading US Health portal, it scores over 40 million hits per month.
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MetaSearch
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Now Answers.com. Type in a question in natural language, get an answer.
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Clusty:
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The clustering search engine powered by Vivisimo.
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Brings together searches from the top search engines including Google, Yahoo! Search, Live Search, Ask.com, About, MIVA, LookSmart, and more.
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Now an Internet portal, was once one of the most recognized brands on the Internet. One of the famous 90's dotcoms.
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was one of the early Internet search engines (since 1996) launched by Wired Magazine. Now, just a front end for Ask.com and MSN.
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Info.com:
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Metasearch bringing together results from the top search engines.
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Eliminate Big Brother! The Ixquickmetasearch engine permanently deletes all personal search details gleaned from its users. Based in the Netherlands, results come from 11 search engines.
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Metasearch for travel - search 140 travel sites all at once for the best deals and buy tickets and make reservations direct.
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is a virtual web browser, similar to My Yahoo!, iGoogle, Pageflakes, Netvibes, and Microsoft Live. Krozilo uses AJAX and DHTML, so does not require installation.
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"The Mother of All Search Engines" - was one of the web's first metasearch engines (1996). Now owned by Copernic Inc. of Montreal, Canada, Mamma.com is a tier 2 search engine.
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MetaCrawler
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is a metasearch engine that blends the top web search results from Google, Yahoo!, Live Search, Ask.com, About.com, MIVA, LookSmart and other popular search engines.
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is a federated search system developed by Ex Libris. MetaLib conducts simultaneous searches in multiple resources such as library catalogs, journal articles, newspapers and the web.
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is a travel meta-search website. Like other travel meta-search websites, Mobissimo does not sell directly to the consumer but consolidates travel offerings for a referral fee.
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Ad-free search lets users select results from Ask Jeeves, Google, MSN, and Yahoo! Select search depth and place bias on the search results from the major search engines.
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Searches over 200 travel-relates websites for airfares & the best deals on airfare. Find cheap airfares, discount hotels, car rentals and cruise deals to popular travel destinations worldwide.
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offers a variety of tools for finding, saving, and sharing information on the Internet, including Nextaris, the law-article research site LawKT, the SurfWax meta-search and SurfWax Scholar services.
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is a metasearch engine which uncovers information in the Invisible Web. Turbo10 can access information from 800 online databases and searches 10 databases simultaneously.
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was used to build the first publicly-available full-text index of a subset of the Web. WebCrawler® brings users the top search results from Google, Yahoo!, Windows Live, Ask and other popular search engines.
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MultiMedia
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Owned by Google, the web's largest media site. This search will search through the videos of YouTube only.
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Over 18 million hours of video . Search it all. Blinkx is a multi-media metasearch engine searching the media files of sites such as YouTube, MetaCafe, GoogleVideo, MySpace and more.
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FreeBookSearch.net:
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The famous book searching portal also searches for audiobooks. This same search will also find MP3 files.
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Search engine to find any kind of sound file: WAV, MP3, AIFF, AU - search by sample rate and quality... a great place to find those sound effects.
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Search videos hosted by MetaCafe. If you are a producer of videos, you can get paid for videos - the more viewers, the more cash.
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Music Search (mp3, wav, etc.): Based upon a JavaScript that automatically inserts a clever boolean search string into Google to return catalogs of hidden MP3 and Music files.
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PBS
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provides resources to air its standard programming & also provides its audience with multiple online archives of specific video programs. All video archives can be searched for any spoken word pronounced in them.
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Picsearch:
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Search the web for images. An image search service with more than 2,000,000,000 pictures.
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"Introducing: the first search engine that can find podcasts according to the words spoken during them!". Finds audio and video files based upon actual content!
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SpeechBot
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was a search engine for audio & video. It was created by HP Research, but unfortunately, is now offline.
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An audio and video search engine, now AOL media search.
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StrimOO:
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Video search engine. Find videos on Youtube, Metacafe, Dailymotion and more with one search.
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TVEyes makes Radio & TV searchable by keyword, phrase or topic - just as you would use a search engine for text. TVEyes is the first company to deliver real-time TV and Radio search.
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Veveo / VTap:
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a video search platform for mobile phones. Vtap is an offering from Veveo and it currently works on Apple Iphones as well as Microsoft Mobile-powered phones.
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Web-Cam-Search.com:
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Search and hack nearly a million webcams for free on the net. This search uses Boolean scripting to uncover cams - public & supposedly 'private'. :-)
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