The new search format will deliver context-sensitive information about the people and things users search for to the right of the conventional list of links to webpages, said Johanna Wright, Google’s director of product management.

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Search Inside The Music is not an active research project.

JotBot is a tiny floating input window that provides access to six different search engines in the fastest manner possible. It's design facilitates both instant and marathon searching at speeds ranging from 2 to 10 times faster then regular -- all by avoiding those large front pages and skipping directly to the data.

Have you ever wondered how Google’s search got so good? An insightful new video released by Google uses employee interviews and engaging graphics to show how Google’s core search product has evolved since it began in 1997.

Trapit is like a much-improved RSS feed that learns what you like so it can personalize search results. Pick a topic and Trapit will cull the Web sites of blogs, magazines and newspapers to show you both the most recent and most relevant results. Then, based on what you read and what you tell Trapit you like and dislike by clicking thumbs up or thumbs down, it will adjust your search results using machine learning.

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Whoosh is a fast, featureful full-text indexing and searching library implemented in pure Python. Programmers can use it to easily add search functionality to their applications and websites.

FOLDOC is a computing dictionary. It includes definitions of acronyms, jargon, programming languages, tools, architecture, operating systems, networking, theory, conventions, standards, mathematics, telecoms, electronics, institutions, companies, projects, products, history, in fact any of the vocabulary you might expect to find in a computer dictionary.

Supported by Imperial College Department of Computing

The Department of Computing at Imperial is one of the largest computing departments in the UK and is a world leader in academic research in computer science.

is the world's largest library catalog, helping you find library materials online

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A division of the Stanford University Libraries

use data science to guide buying decisions

Ecommerce startup Decide launches Monday and uses two straightforward words — “buy” or “wait” — to educate consumers on when it’s best to buy their next laptop, television or camera.

On Decide, the experience is simple: Search for a product and get an immediate buy or wait recommendation, along with a machine-generated prediction on when to buy and a percentage indicating Decide’s confidence in that prediction.

As social replaces search, humans show their superior ability to defeat the web's spammers and disinformation

Quicksilver: Universal Access and Action

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AlternativeTo is a new approach to finding good software. Tell us what application you want to replace and we give you great alternatives, based on user recommendations.

Services like the Mac App Store may be convenient for discovering software, but they can come with quite a few downsides too. Here are ten other great places to find the program you need.

People who put incoming e-mails in folders are no better at finding them than those who simply use search.

He's an Israeli who sidestepped military service in favor of moving to the Bay Area to become Y Combinator's youngest founder. Six months later, all eyes are on Daniel Gross, as he has almost $5 million in funding backing his search engine, Greplin. Oh, and he didn’t go to college.

Laboratories are where science and creativity meet to develop, research, and explore new ideas. Mozilla Labs embraces this great tradition — a virtual lab where people come together to create, experiment, and play with new Web innovations and technologies.

There's a site called Spokeo.com that's a new online USA phone book w/personal information: everything from pics you've posted on FB or web, your approx credit score, home value, income, age, etc. You can remove yourself by searching for yourself on their site, copying the URL of your page, then going to http://www.spokeo.com/privacy to remove yourself.

Browse through over 150 billion web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago

TuneCrank finds, ranks and streams the best independent music out there for the whole world to hear. Touring bands, buskers and basement dreamers alike can simply upload a tune and scale the CrankRank side by side. No unfair advantages, no who-you-know, no glossy stage antics - here it's all about the music.

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TorchFS — A filter for your files and folders
TorchFS displays your folder structure filtered by your search criteria. This helps to manage large amounts of files on the Mac.

The Apache Lucene project develops open-source search software,

Search with Instant Answers by DuckDuckGo is a faster way to search the Internet on your mobile device.

Going to Web sites on your phone is a pain. The goal of our app is to get you the information you want in zero clicks, without having to go to any sites.

How do we do this? We go to the sites for you (in real-time), pull out the most relevant paragraphs of text, and display them to you in the form of topic summaries.

February 12, 2010: Aardvark joins Google! Read all about it…
"Tap the knowledge of people in your network!'

The Guggenheim Museum is teaming up with YouTube in partnership with HP to discover the art of YouTube videos. Tasked with uncovering the "most creative video in the world," the companies have launched an international search by way of YouTube Play, a specially branded YouTube channel that will feature the entries in this new competition.

What do sound design for movies & Google search have in common?

The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors.

Cuil’s goal is to solve the two great problems of search: how to index the whole Internet—not just part of it—and how to analyze and sort out its pages so you get relevant results

Cuil indexes your Facebook network and produces results based on your social connections.

TweetMeme is a service which aggregates all the popular links on Twitter to determine which links are popular. TweetMeme categorises these links into Categories, Subcategories and Channels, making it easy to filter out the noise to find what you're interested in.

Welcome to Gnod's world of music...
Even if you don't know what you are looking for - gnod will find it.

Gnod is a self-adapting system that learns about the outer world by asking its visitors what they like and what they don't like. In this instance of gnod all is about music. Gnod is kind of a search engine for music you don't know about. It will ask you what music you like and then think about what you might like too. When I set gnod online its database was completely empty. Now it contains thousands of bands and quite some knowledge about who likes what. And gnod learns more every day. Enjoy :o)

Mr. Lu, who is 47, left Yahoo 14 months ago, but now finds himself once again leading the charge against Google. This time, he is backed by a patron that vows to spend even more than Yahoo did on the mission: Microsoft.