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Designed
by Kan Li
Winner 2000/01
LHS Library
Bookmark Contest
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Lawrence
High School Library
Lawrence, Kansas
 Clusty:
Clusty is a metasearch engine, meaning it combines results
from a variety of different sources. However, Clusty adds
a bit of extra search engine goodness in the mix by giving
you clustered results. Basically, clustered results are extra
search suggestions arranged by category – for example,
if you type in “coffee”, Clusty responds with clustered
results to the left such as Tea, Espresso, History of Coffee,
etc. |
 Indeed:
Indeed.com is a job search engine. It is not a list of message
boards, or a place where you can actually submit your resume.
Indeed is extremely simple to use, and covers all the major
job boards, newspaper classified sites, niche industry sites
and corporate job sites. I found more jobs in five minutes
on here than I did searching on other job boards. You have
to go to the individual websites in order to apply (which
is kind of a pain) but this is a great way to generate job
leads. Indeed also offers a nice toolset for the job searcher,
including a JobRoll, “a customized, dynamically-updating
list of jobs that may be placed on your blog or website.”
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 Isohunt:
Isohunt is a Bit Torrent search engine. Isohunt does not host
files; Isohunt only helps you find files, and therefore is
a completely legal service. From an Isohunt forum thread:
“IsoHunt crawls several torrent sites, and when you search
for torrents here, you get links to HTML pages on these sites
where the Torrent files can be found.” Finding Bit Torrent
files on Isohunt is made even easier by viewing the Isohunt
Zeitgeist.. |
 FoodieView:
With a brand new site design, FoodieView is one of my all-time
favorite alternative search engines. FoodieView is a recipe
search engine searching over 175,000 recipes from all different
kinds of sources, including AllRecipes.com, The Food Network,
Martha Stewart Recipes, and many more. FoodieView is a targeted
recipe search engine with a lot of really interesting features;
it’s also extremely easy to find good recipes on FoodieView
that are actually relevant to what your search query is, which,
if you’ve ever tried to find a recipe using certain ingredients
on one of the bigger search engines, you’ll agree with
me when I say that it can be a huge time-waster. |
 Ditto:
Ditto.com is a free image search engine that enables users
to search for images, quickly and easily. Ditto recently announced
that they have 500 million pictures in their image search
(and counting), and they claim to have the “largest searchable
index of visual content on the Internet via proprietary processes.”
Basically, Ditto is a way to find images fast and effectively
- they’ve also been around for a pretty long time in
Internet years (I remember using them back when they started
in 1999). A good alternative to Google Images. |
 Healthline:
Healthline.com is a medical information search engine, with
lots of interesting features that make it very simple to use
(in other words, you don’t have to have an MD degree
to find what you’re looking for here). Healthline is
solely dedicated to finding medical information online, and
it offers medically filtered results developed by trained
medical personnel. |
 FirstGov:
FirstGov.gov is an absolutely mammoth search engine/portal
that gives the searcher direct access to searchable information
from the United States government, state governments, and
local governments. It can be overwhelming, simply because
there is SO much information here. I would suggest that you
get your feet wet with FirstGov by using the Information By
Topic directory, or you can choose to drill down by viewing
the Site Index. In addition, FirstGov offers an above average
Advanced Search help page. |
 AuctionMapper:
AuctionMapper is an extremely cool search engine that focuses
only on eBay listings. Sure, eBay has it’s own site search;
but AuctionMapper takes that site search and goes a few steps
further. There’s all sorts of geeky fun to be had with
AuctionMapper; the whole site is full of maps, animated thingies
that fly around, Star Trekky sounds – it’s just
a really well-done search engine that is not only fun to play
with, but it’s actually useful, a combination that seems
to be hard to come by these days. |
 Daypop:
Daypop is a current events/blogosphere search engine. Daypop
crawls sites that are updated frequently in order to bring
searchers the latest news; included in Daypop’s index
are newspapers, blogs, online magazines-any site that is updated
on a regular basis will make it into Daypop’s index.
You can use Daypop to search a small slice of the Web for
news and information, see what people are talking about in
real-time, view what links are being passed around most frequently,
and more. I use Daypop as my own virtual office water-cooler;
it’s a great way to catch Web trends before they become
trendy. |
 Blinkx:
Blinkx TV is basically a search engine that allows you to
search for audio, video, and podcasts using not only keywords
and phrases, but also content in the actual clips that you’re
looking for. For example, if you wanted to find Kermit the
Frog’s “It’s Not Easy Being Green”, you
could type in “having to spend each day the color of
the leaves”, and Blinkx would be able to fetch your data
using not only your content, but the concept behind your content
- the spoken word (or in this case, the lyrics). It’s
also another search engine that’s just beautifully designed
– you’re going to want to make sure you have relatively
high-speed access in order to view the site the way it was
intended. |
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