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"Is your memory mostly visually triggered? Or are you simply tired of text based search and looking for the next thing? Here are the top 5 visual search engines, each with a different take on visual search interface and presentation of results."
Teacher Book Wizard Widget | Scholastic.com
"The Teacher Book Wizard is the FREE ultimate children's book search engine. Drop the widget on your site to give it the power of Teacher Book Wizard search. "
20 Tips for More Efficient Google Searches
"Use this guide to learn more about, or be reminded of, some of the best ways to get exactly what you're looking for, and quickly."
Top 100 « AltSearchEngines
This is not an alphabetized list, nor even a categorized list, but simply listed in the order that I searched each search engine, directory or whatever.
TweetMeme - Hottest Stories on Twitter
Tweetmeme is a service which aggregates all the popular links on Twitter to determine which links are popular. Tweetmeme analyses links that people have "tweeted", organising and categorising them - delivering streams of the most popular.
Scoopler: Real-time search
Real-time search.
Wolfram|Alpha
Today's Wolfram|Alpha is the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone. You enter your question or calculation, and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and growing collection of data to compute the answer.
Duck Duck Go
simplified search engine
will be more attractive to elementary students
Hat tip to @joycevalenza.
louisgray.com: Twazzup Takes On Twitter Search to Make Sense of Real-Time Web
Twazzup, is looking to extend the Twitter Search platform, by not only providing real-time updates to the search results, but also highlighting popular users, links and tweets relevant to searched keywords.
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Add Sticky NoteBut not with Twazzup, who rolls in the new results in real time, much like FriendFeed's new beta interface. Also similar to that interface, Twazzup features a user-friendly pause button in the top right to slow things down a bit.
- This feature wins me over. - on 2009-04-13
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Add Sticky NoteFor me, searching Twitter is practically as useful as messaging via Twitter, as it offers a lens into not just what people "are doing", but what they are thinking, observing or talking about.
- The answer to, "I just don't get it." - on 2009-04-13
Video: Web Search Strategies in Plain English | Common Craft - Explanations In Plain English
A short video designed to help you get more out of your web searches.
Top 10 Alternative Search Engines of 2008 - ReadWriteWeb
I guarantee that if you try any of these top 10 alternative search engines of 2008, you won't come away saying, "Hey, that was just like Google."
On searching, web literacy, and the ubiquitous “animal report” | Welcome to NCS-Tech!
I’ve come to the (somewhat obvious, sorry) conclusion that good search and information processing skills must first be learned offline and then transferred online, not the other way around.
Search engines from across the world with Search Engine Colossus - lists - the internet structured
November Learning - Directing Learning with Google Custom Search
Would you teach your students to read without teaching them to write? Probably not. Educators know that linking these two pieces together makes for a more complete learning experience. Transferring this knowledge into the world of online search, does it make sense to teach students to search without teaching them what’s involved in creating and managing a search engine?
Powerset
Powerset is first applying its natural language processing to search, aiming to improve the way we find information by unlocking the meaning encoded in ordinary human language.
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