Searching

Try out some of the more innovative search engines and related research tools. Also includes tools that help you implement and customize search engines for your own web site.

Resources in this category:

Bookmash
http://www.bookmash.com/

Mashup that lets you search video, music, photo, news and social sites and bookmark them to share them with your friends.

ccMixter
http://ccmixter.org/

Looking for free, high quality music you can listen to, download, mash-up, and/or use in videos and other media? ccMixter "is a community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons."

Collecta
http://collecta.com/

Collecta is a real time search engine that lets you search against blog posts, articles, comments on blog posts. Type in a search term and Collecta continually produces information as the internet updates.

Connotea: free online reference management
http://www.connotea.org/

Keep track of your research resources, including bibliographic information, assign tags, download information to desktop applications, share resources with colleagues or browse the libraries of other researchers. Since Connotea is Web-based, access your information from any computer with a Web connection. Free registration required.

Docstoc
http://www.docstoc.com/

Find and share professional documents with Docstoc. Search a wide-range of documents such a book excerpts, legal, financial, and technological documents.

Elf | Your Personal Email Library Reminder Service
http://www.libraryelf.com/

"A web-based and email tool for library users to keep track of their library borrowings . . .like a personal assistant, whose task is to help with keeping track of what one has on loan from the library. Designed with the busy or avid library user in mind, Elf is ideal for families with multiple library cards or for individuals (writers, researchers, students, readers, etc.) who have cards from different libraries." Free registration required.

Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/

Flickr is a photo management and sharing application. Also serves as a repository for photographs and videos.

Free Music Archive
http://freemusicarchive.org/

The Free Music Archive's slogan is "It's not just free music; it's good music." The FMA provides access to downloadable, creative-commons licensed, high-quality music. There are various ways to search music and opportunities to network with other FMA members.

Freesound Project
http://www.freesound.org/

The Freesound Project is a "collaborative database of creative commons licensed sounds." Search, find and download all sorts of sounds. Great sounds to use and incorporate into podcasts and other media.

Gigablast
http://gigablast.com/index.php?subPage=overview&page=busines...

Provides the code that allows you to implement site search engines or a custom topic search on your own website.

Google Custom Search Engine
http://www.google.com/coop/cse/

"Have a website or collection of sites you'd like to search over? With Custom Search Engine, you can harness the power of Google to create a search engine tailored to your needs." In addition, you can also see examples, review documentation and peruse the blog for more information.

Grooveshark
http://listen.grooveshark.com/

Grooveshark is a music search engine, music streaming service and a music recommendation service. Users are immediately allowed access to streaming music and can create their own playlists and share with others.

Midomi
http://www.midomi.com/

Midomi is a new kind of music search engine where you can search for music via a text search or by actually humming into their voice recognition box.

Odeo
http://odeo.com/

Searching for podcasts? Odeo is a search engine that looks for a variety of free podcasts ranging from diverse subjects.

Scoopler
http://www.scoopler.com/

Scoopler is a real time meta-search engine that searches through microblog (twitter, flickr, delicious, digg).

Scribd
http://www.scribd.com/

Easily share your original documents online. "Think of Scribd as a big online library where everyone can publish original content, including you! Part of the idea behind Scribd is that everyone has a lot of documents sitting around on their computers that only they can read." Scribd provides a platform through which you can share your docs with the world!

Search people in video | Reuters Labs
http://reuters.viewdle.com/searchm

"Search People in Video is powered by Viewdle, a pioneering facial recognition-based video indexing and search technology that recognizes true, real-time and contextually-relevant appearances of people on screen." Simply type in the name of the person you want to find and be amazed by the results.

Soundtransit
http://soundtransit.nl/search/

Soundtransit describes themselves as a "collaborative, online community dedicated to field recording and phonography." Soundtransit's strength is the breadth of sounds from around the world.

StumbleUpon
http://www.stumbleupon.com/

StumbleUpon is a personalized recommendation search engine that uses peer and social-networking principles in providing information. Users in the StumbleUpon community can recommend/rate web pages, photos and videos.

TerraFly Geo Databases at FIU sponsored by NSF, USGS, NASA and IBM
http://terrafly.com/

"Navigate the map, doubleclick it to get local point-data, easily geo-query vast databases, and fly with TerraFly® Web tools, from autopilots to pro viewers. View Imagery and Data anywhere in the United States and in much of the World."

Yahoo! Search Builder
http://builder.search.yahoo.com/m/promo

"Bring the power of Yahoo! Search to your site, including: Easily add web search and site search to your site; tailor the look and feel of the search experience to match your site; enhance the search engine algorithm to focus on your site's topic." Requires free registration for use.