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• SearchRocket
• WebFerret 
  

Agentland largest & most comprehensive directory exclusively dedicated to intelligent agents    9 March 2002

Alexa Information company(Amazon.com)  browser toolbar displays information on website      14 February 2002
20 Dec 2005 Alexa Web Search Platform for public access to 5b documents/100 terabytes of data to users with active accounts; US$1/CPU hour consumed $1/gig of  storage used $1/50 Gb of data processed. $1/Gb of data uploaded on their platform;

Answers.com                                                                                                                             1 February 2007
4m answers from 60+ titles from publishers & original content created by Answers.com's own editorial team; 1-Click AnswersTM(Windows or Mac OS X)  to click on any word on the screen, in any program, for instant explanations; advertising supported;

Application Programming Interfaces(API)                                                                                  28 September 2009
Choose from 51 search engine APIs;

Atomica Corporation (then called GuruNet, now Answers.com - see below)                            3 July 2001
cursor on the word, alt+click starts Atomica offering resources, including translations, related glossary, entries from dictionary or thesaurus, & a Google search; (6 Jan 2005) GuruNet Becomes Answers.com & Is Now Available Free!

Aware desktop search  learn from context, fine-tune search results like Onfolio & Nextaris          9 April 2005
analyse context of pages in search results, add, delete keywords; display results with a rank score, source, rating buttons & ignore check boxes; rate each term on +/- scale, change rating by slider, increase or decrease no. of queries/search, no. of results & depth ratio;  AltaVista, Google, MSN, Yahoo(not Ask Jeeves/Teoma), DayPop Blog & News, Scirus, Findlaw, Google News & Google Groups; import/export, 30 Day Trial, Windows 2000, XP+(not Win98); Pentium III, 600MHz+; 256 Mb of RAM; 20Gb Hard Drive; needs Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1(22Mb);

BrightPlanet - Search Tutorial - Searching with Internet Provided Resources                                2 December 2001
effective ways to structure a query & use special operators; 2 sections: "Searching with Internet Provided Resources" (12 parts; 51 topics - search services, available operators) & "Using a Powerful Desktop Resource: LexiBotTM" (11 topics; using the site tool: LexiBot )

Dynago DART
crawler, search engine, content analyzer; discover patterns, analyze & re-rank documents; download pages; extract relevant concepts as abstracts; $67 prof. ed. (free trial download), $47 standard ed; Recommended P-III 500MHz or equiv., 128Mb RAM, 2GB HD, IE5+ default web browser, Win.  98/Me/XP/NT/2000.

Desktop search tools                                                                                                                1 January 2005
Google, MSN, Copernic, Ask Jeeves dominate but other players include x-friend, ISYS & dtSearch; MSN Desktop Search is part of MSN Toolbar Suite Beta & installs as browser toolbar optionally in Windows taskbar; indexes Office, Outlook & Outlook Express email, photos, music,email attachments; specify what to index: email & My Documents, email & hard disc, individual directories; sort by title, author, type, size, date or folder ; better results, indexing & privacy than Google's & better results than Ask Jeeves but Copernic excels with support for Mozilla, Firefox & Netscape & ability to index specific file types; See also Offline search(below); Desktop Search Matrix(Compare Desktop Search Tools); 6 Apr 2005: Ars Technica Reviews Windows Desktop Search Tools by Danny Sullivan;  MSN gets 9, Copernic 9, Google 8, Yahoo 7, Ask 5. See also another review from Forbes, MSN winning & Seeking a More Intuitive Search Tool Google(1) MSN(2); Yahoo Desktop Search; Exalead One:Desktop indexes Microsoft, Adobe, html or Wordperfect & has phrase search, OR & NOT commands, NEAR command(within 16 words), phonetic search, approximate spelling, pattern matching; word stemming switched default; Quintura clusters, visualizes & manages search, analyzes contextual relationships between keywords, to define context or meaning, builds data clusters on-the-fly when you change search query with a mouse, shows keywords related to your query & helps include or exclude new keyword to/from your search query with one click; (22 Nov 07) Google Custom Search Engine(GSE) goes international - platform for searching inside a finite list of domains now available in 40 different languages; 

dtSearch                                                                                                                                 29 March 2007
search terabytes of text across a desktop, network, Internet or Intranet site; enterprise class indexing & search tool; evidentiary extraction search tool for digital forensic examination

Endeca Information Access Platform                                                                                       15 February 2008                                     
guided navigation service mirrors the way our pschology works when searching for information; guided summarization for open-ended questions;

Google Desktop Search                                                                                                          25 March 2005
searches PDF files & Supports Netscape, Firefox, Mozilla, Thunderbird; plugin for Open Office & Star Office

Google Search Appliance(GSA) 6.0 can index billions of documents                                         3 June 2009
new scaling ability to connect a near-limitless number of yellow GSA boxes across deployments regardless of location; Based on Dell servers powered by Xeon 5500 Series processors from Intel, high-end model can index up to 30m documents, versus 10m in prior model;

Grokker 2.0  visual search Win & Mac -  Free trial - US$ 49                                                 23 February 2004

GuruNet (formerly Atomica)                                                                                                   14 March 2003
web version US$35; free dictionary & thesaurus; Highlight text or enter words into Topic Bar for content from MarketGuide Company Profiles, Definitions from Several Dictionaries, Unit Conversion Tables, Biographical Info, Acronyms, Google News (27/3/2004);  GuruNet's client apps still available; Gurunet Client for OS X (Mac users); (6 Jan 2005) GuruNet Becomes Answers.com & free!

KartOO Technologies                                                                                                             11 September 2009
visual metasearch engines for economic intelligence, strategic watch(including e-Reputation) & innovation management within intranets, extranets & Internet;

Magellan Metasearch 1.3.0                                                                                                     15 April 2006
monitor many search engines in a complex query language with standard boolean operators, meta-operators, & proximity operators; free download from SourceForge.net Open Source software development web site; Windows 98+;

Mendeley|Academic software for research papers free research management tool for desktop & web  5 April 2010
academic software indexes & organizes PDF documents & research papers into digital bibliography, gathers document details from PDFs to search, organize & cite; looks up PubMed, CrossRef, DOIs & related document details automatically; Drag & drop; Web Importer from Google Scholar, ACM, IEEE; Collaborate with researchers & share information, resources & experiences with shared & public collections; automatically extracts bibliographic data, keywords, & cited references from your PDFs for a searchable fulltext database;

Mojeek no other engine's results, no paid for inclusion or placement                                           23 June 2007
create a personal or topical search engine; add & remove an unlimited number of domains(Free Version to 1000); site searches & multiple domain searches using customized ranking parameters; Personal Search home page(hidden or public), search results in xml format; add personal search to Firefox search bar;

My Stuff (Ask.com)                                                                                                                16 March 2006
register email address & password; each item in Ask.com search results includes link to Save; cant edit title, add tags or archive(clicking link of saved page gets current version); organise pages into folders;

My Web 2.0                                                                                                                           16 March 2006 
Yahoo! search with Save link for each item: change title of saved page, add notes or tags, share?, archive a copy

Onfolio search-information manager embeds in browser                                                             24 March 2004
collect, organize, share search results, browse for repeat use; one-click buttons on address toolbar, tabs, & IE- style filing; professional ed allows rapid publishing to Web site or RSS syndication feeds; 30-day trial;  standard ed $30, professional ed $80; see also delicious, Furl, Content Saver; Free resources for organising, maintaining & sharing web searches; 

On page search popups See Atomica above                                                                        28 October 2008
Mashlogic Firefox plugin underlines potentially interesting words, phrases, names, numbers, values for mouse hover & dropdown options; headup firefox plugin gets smarter the more you upload, socially focused; Kallout Wikipedia, Google, YouTube etc; specifically tailored to MS Office applications, so you can search in Powerpoint presentations, Outlook, Word, Excel, & PDF’s;

Open Source Tools for Content Management                                                                          19 May 2006
* Zope * Typo3 * Midgard Project * OpenCMS * Apache Lenya * PHP Nuke * Drupal * Mambo * Claroline * Moodle * Fedora * DSpace * Greenstone * Cofax * Open Journal System * EPrints * eGroupware * phpCollab * Wiki * WordPress

P@noptic Enterprise Search Engine(CSIRO) natural language processing                                    12 July 2003
queries of <7 non-stopwords; relevance ranking based on rarity, frequency in document, length of document; Query words in title or URL rank higher; long queries >6 non-stopwords; P@noptic removes stopwords, re-orders query words in square brackets;

Previewseek                                                                                                                            30 March 2007
artificial intelligence based, advanced Internet & mobile search, navigation, aggregation, categorization & advertising solutions

Search engines that learn from searchers                                                                                    12 January 2010

Searching the Internet using brains & bots                                                                                27 March 2004

Search Radar browser plugin to suggest refined search results in sidebar                                   30 August 2007

Second Brain: Organizing Your Information Chaos  Closed August 2010                                       24 May 2007
personal library where people aggregate all their creations, services & favorites - then share &/or publish them online; add content individually or via current services(YouTube, Google Docs, Flickr, Picassa, del.icio.us & Blue Dot); Collection Editor allows detailed tagging & description of data from various services; Users will embed collections on sites or blogs in a more innovative way;

Siri voice-enabled 'virtual personal assistant' (Nuance speech recognition)                                     7 February 2010
taps into APIs from companies such as Yelp, Citysearch, Yahoo, Taxi Magic, WeatherBug, Rotten Tomatoes, Google Maps, Eventful & Allmenus.com as launch partners;

Social aspects of agent design (First Monday, Volume 14, Number 7 - 6 July 2009)

Super Search  FireFox addon combines 160+ people search & web search engines in toolbar     12 September 2009
Access 67 most popular engines from toolbar search, included engines from Toolbar drop-downs; Grouped in 4 categories:Web search(Google, Yahoo, Bing, StumbleUpon) including real-time Twitter-based search & social search; People search(Twelow, Facebook, YoName, ZomInfo); New, Blogs and More(including Craiglist, Google & Yahoo Groups); Video, Images & Audio(YouTube, Revver, Vimeo);

Surf Canyon browser extension personalizes search engine results                                                16 July 2009
download as an addon for Firefox & Internet Explorer(IE6, IE7 & IE8), software figures out what you want & automatically recommends relevant search results; About.com Web Search Reader's Choice Award Winners for 2010 as best search engine;

Swicki create focused searches to add to your website                                                                 27 April 2006
add relevant information as it is indexed & organize in a customizable widget(JavaScript + XML)  for site or blog; constantly updated buzz cloud to show hot topics; no system requirements; free

UCmore                                                                                                                                   7 june 2003
instal to browser; information related to the page viewed; contextual search; related sites; suggests categories & web sites from Open Directory; spyware?

Watson Intellext Windows 2000/XP/2003 & Microsoft IE 6.0+                                                16 July 2006
free download; neither stores nor transmits personal information; customise with traditional web search engines, blog search engines, news & shopping sites, networking sites MySpace & LinkedIn, & news sites like the Wall Street Journal;

WebFerret metasearch V.6 requires Win 2000, XP or Vista                                                    13 February 2010
choose which search engines to search & number of results to return, enable password-protected obscenity filters, or create your own, store search history; use directly from toolbar integrated into Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox web browser; duplicate results removal & keyword suggestions; select any number of results to have WF independently validate them, make sure a web page really exists for each result you choose to validate; search for ALL keywords, ANY of them, an exact phrase, or Boolean expression

Webseeker                                                                                                                                1 July 2003
meta search software sits on your PC &, in addition to redefined categories of search tools, a wizard to define your own groupings & add sources; US$29.95

WOWD real-time discovery engine for discovering what's popular on web right now;                 14 February 2010                

Zoogma automated intelligence gathering & analysis platform                                                       19 July 2009
uses statistics & natural language processing(NLP) to find clues in unstructured text & make them searchable;