Searching and Researching Tools

Check out the latest in search engines and related research tools.

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.

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.

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.

Hunch
http://www.hunch.com/

Hunch is a different kind of website to help you make decisions about hundreds of topics. You answer 10 multiple choice questions and then chose from a variety of situations. "Hunch is designed so that every time it's used, it learns something new. That means Hunch's hunches are always getting better."

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.

Polldaddy
http://www.polldaddy.com/

Create free polls with Polldaddy. Their free account provides access to custom color schemes, the ability to track votes, create unlimited free polls, and the ability to add text, pictures and video to your poll.

Redux
http://redux.com/

Redux dubs themselves as "your entertainment guide to the web." Go to Redux to search and find and videos, photos, music recommended by people who have similar interests to you.

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.

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.

Survey Monkey
http://www.surveymonkey.com/

Survey Monkey is an online survey tool that can be used for surveys, feedback, employee/customer reviews, and even group scheduling.

Survs
http://www.survs.com/

Survs is a free survey tool. Create surveys, email to participants, analyze results.

Tasty Data Goodies - Swivel
http://www.swivel.com/

Upload and visualize your spreadsheet data - then compare it with data that others have loaded. A great place to review a variety of data visualization examples and to create your own. Note that any data uploaded for free at Swivel becomes available for all visitors at Swivel to view.

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."

WebNotes
http://www.webnotes.net/

Allows you to do "faster and more effective web research" by marking up web pages with highlighters and sticky notes then organizing and creating a report. You need to purchase the Pro version to use it on PDF files.

Yelp
http://www.yelp.com/

Yelp is a local search and reviews search engine. Currently Yelp covers only major metropolitan areas such as Portland (OR), New York, Boston, San Francisco, but will be adding more over time.