AM-DeadLink                                                                                                                     4 July 2004
Free program detects dead links & duplicates in browser bookmarks,favorites, hotlists & bookmarks from Internet Explorer, Opera, Mozilla & Netscape

Best Desktop Search Tools For Your PC(PC World, August 18, 2005)       

Bibster(free download)                                                                                                        14 June 2004
Search & share bibliographic data in a peer-to-peer network  a) share bibliographic data, b) save work in finding bibliographic data, c) avoid re-typing...

BlinkList social bookmarking manager                                                                                 11 August 2005
save, archive, share, discover links; save & keyword tag online resources; sort tags by most popular, rating &d by date; bookmarklet for posting links while navigating other web pages;

Bookmarklets, Favelets, & Keymarks: Shortcuts Galore                                                        5 July 2003
See also Bookmarklets & Jesse's Bookmarklets; Open Directory Project's listing of bookmarklets & Greg Notess' favourite bookmarklets; Managing Bookmarklets, Not Bookmarks with Blummy ;

Cobrowsing/Cosurfing See Jybe(below)

Cogitum LC                                                                                                                         1 October 2001
creating collections of Internet texts; capture text, Internet address, title & date on database; assign comments & specify a folder a) publish as Web page b) send by e-mail c) control how grabbed texts are displayed d) search collection; e) print & delete grabbed texts 

Compass                                                                                                                             10 May 2002
bookmark manager utility program released in January 1997 supports Netscape, Internet Explorer, Opera, & generic browsers specified by OS; handling hierarchical structure of folders; integrate bookmarks from different computers or different browsers; outline editor, note editor, personal journal, notes, outlines, memos…works with Netscape 2.x - 4.x, Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.x - 5.x & Opera 3.x - 5.x on Windows 95/98/Me/NT4/2000.

Connotea (for scientists)  keep links to articles read & websites used;                                       4 February 2005
discover articles & websites sharing links with other users; (25 March 2006) new features: Tagging Tool for EPrints-powered Institutional Repositories; Tag Cloud; Video Introduction to Connotea, tags, bookmarking, automatic bibliographic imports; 

Cosurfing/Cobrowsing See Jybe

Dave's Quick Search Taskbar Toolbar Deskbar                                                                   5 December 2002
free software launches Google, Yahoo; people lookups, free translation,calculator,currency converter; tested with IE 5.5, and 6.0, on Windows 95+; 

Delicious Social Bookmarks Manager                                                                                  23 February 2004
download a browser extension if you're using Mozilla, Firefox, or Netscape; Durl Shows You Who's Linking in Del.icio.us; Absolutely Del.icio.us - Complete Tool Collection; See also Folksonomies overview; Delicious Director leverages XML & XSL services deliver a responsive interface for managing user accounts: In-browser handling of del.icio.us bookmarks;  Find-as-you-type search of all bookmarks; Sort by description, tags, or timestamp; Ad-hoc tag browser; for Firefox & IE; Safari doesn't support XSLT via Javascript; Facetious  free navigator of del.icio.us bookmarks; query del.icio.us database for keywords & complementary data including tags, creators, web site, publishing date; Revealicious information visualization tool; set of graphic visualisations modules applied to your del.icio.us account - browse, search, select tags, view matching posts - 3 interactive Flash applets: SpaceNav to explore structure of your tags, TagsCloud interactive & enhanced version tagscloud available in del.icio.us, & Grouper experimental interface for grouping & working with tags; Us.ef.ul guide to del.icio.us. details special benefits for Firefox users ; new feature searches title, description, tags of bookmarked items, an enhancement on tag-only search (e.g. http://del.icio.us/tag/[tag to search]); SEE: Del.icio.us Search; Deli.ckoma provides stats on del.icio.us - number of posts by date, monthly posts, posts by day-of- week, & posts by hour of day; tag stats -  number of tags people use/bookmark - overall, & just for the month; How To Use del.icio.us; Tags help make libraries Del.icio.us; Facette: organize your Delicious bookmarks;

Desktop search tools                                                                                                          1 January 2005
Google, MSN, Copernic & Ask Jeeves dominate, other players include x-friend, ISYS: & dtSearch; MSN Desktop Search part of MSN Toolbar Suite Beta, installs as a browser toolbar in Windows taskbar; indexes Office documents, Outlook & Outlook Express email, photos, music, email attachments; specify what you want indexed: email & My Documents, email & hard disc, individual directories; Results sorted by title, author, type, size, date or folder; better in terms of results,indexing & privacy than Google's & results better than Ask Jeeves but Copernic excels with support for Mozilla, Firefox & Netscape & ability to treat specific types of files as text for indexing; See also Offline search (below); Desktop Search Matrix (Compare Desktop Search Tools); Ars Technica Reviews Windows Desktop Search Tools By Danny Sullivan, Apr. 6, 2005; MSN gets 9, Copernic 9, Google 8, Yahoo 7, Ask 5. See also another review from Forbes with MSN winning & Seeking a More Intuitive Search Tool Google(1) MSN(2);  Benchmark Study of Desktop Search Tools (5 May 2005); Pandia survey; MyJeeves 1.2 personal information management tool Released  Aug 2005; Mojeek Personal Search; See also Yahoo Desktop Search; Exalead One:Desktop indexes Microsoft, Adobe, html or Wordperfect & has phrase searching, OR & NOT, NEAR(within 16 words), phonetic search, approximate spelling & pattern matching; word stemming switch default; Quintura (Beta) - clusters, visualizes, manages search, analyzes contextual relationships between keywords, helps define context or meaning of keywords, builds data clusters on-the-fly when you change query with mouse, shows keywords related to query, helps include/exclude new keyword to/from search query with one click; Yahoo SearchMonkey open developer platform allows developers to build applications for Yahoo! search that enhance usefulness & relevance of results by building customized search results & mash-ups; 3 main components: Site owners share structured data with Yahoo! using semantic markup (microformats, RDF), standardized XML feeds, APIs (OpenSearch or other web services), & page extraction; 3rd party developers build SearchMonkey applications; Consumers customize their search experience; applications come in two flavors, Enhanced Results & Infobars, both enhance search results; Apps are triggered when search results include a specific URL. Enhanced results replace a normal search result and must include information only from the site referred to; Infobars appear directly below results & include links to other resources or user action; See also Site search; Recoll: finds text virtually anywhere on a Linux computer: free, open source desktop search tool finds nearly any type of text on your system & incorporates boolean searches(including wildcards) file stemming, & file type filters, auto-completion of search topics;

Diigo social annotation                                                                                                         1 August 2006
highlight, clip, sticky-note; combined services accessible through toolbar or less-powerful bookmarklet, including: Bookmarks saved locally or to online favorites- sharing services; page saving, annotation & tagging; blog publishing; search toolbar; free signup Diigo toolbar (for Internet Explorer, Firefox or Flock);  forum;

Domain name essentials                                                                                                       11 November 2002

Domain Name Ownership Research Tools                                                                           3 May 2003
free WHOIS look-up utilities, Trademark Explorer (Questel•Orbit), SAEGIS, Trademark.com & Domain Names Database (Dialog).Published in the May/June 2003 issue of ONLINE magazine; available for free at the publisher's Web site

Error codes for World Wide Web                                                                                        29 April 2005

Estraier 1.2.6 (Windows Operating System)                                                                         15 May 2004
full-text searches throughout websites or within an intranet; can handle various languages including Japanese; compatible with all systems running Windows 95+

Extractor: free and commercial text-summarizing program                                                      27 March 2002
toolbar button gives a list of keywords & links to deeper analysis; bulleted list of essay's major propositions & radio buttons to instruct the software on which keywords are central; recommends similar articles (Alta Vista search on Extractor's keyword list), translate to or from 5 languages (Alta Vista's BabelFish),  read the text aloud ( Bell Labs' text-to-speech software streaming to the Windows Media Player)

Filamentality                                                                                                                         23 October 2003
fill-in-the-blank tool guide; pick topic, search Web, gather links, turn them into learning activities; Support  through Mentality Tips

Filangy: Personal Web Search Engine                                                                                  23 January 2005
Nutch-based personal search engine creates a web index of sites you've seen (incorporates general web search); early beta; sign up

Folksonomies overview  (Open Tagging Systems)  user-created tagging systems;              25 March 2005
groups organize information adding chosen keywords; See Flickr, Feedmarker, 43things, del.icio.us;  Digg.com;  Technorati;  Folksonomies: power to the people; RawSugar; See also 43things.com & PledgeBank; TagCloud; The Fall and Rise of Plain-text Tagging;

Freesearchers - Surf Smarter                                                                                                 5 August 2001
surfing & e-mail tools, cleaning utilities,multimedia, linguistic tools; loads quickly; best free search tools

Ftpsearchengines.com: A file finding portal                                                                             23 October 2003

Furl ("file URL", in beta)                                                                                                        1 March 2004
utility for bookmarking, archiving & searching Web pages; permanent online cache of web pages; searchable; tips;

Fuzzy Logic: Quick Study Guide
extension of classic Boolean logic designed to work with imprecisee data; classical reasoning requires yes/no values, fuzzy logic 'maybe,' 'nearly' & 'very'

Global Whois                                                                                                                       16 November 2004
Domain name registry: Search by domain name, IP address, nameserver, or registrar using WHOIS keywords; See also WhoIs.sc  - wildcard search of  current/ deleted/expired whois domains

JSTOR Launches XML Gateway                                                                                          1 September 2005
created to better facilitate metasearching, which is also known as 'federated searching' or 'cross-database searching'

Jybe                                                                                                                                    30 April 2005
free spyware-free plug-in to Internet Explorer & Firefox enables you to surf the web with your peers in real-time; FAQ; Forums;

Kaboodle collects, organizes, & shares information for you, receives feedback                     13 January 2005

Koders                                                                                                                               11 November 2004
search engine for programming code, open source software; specify keywords, 16 languages (ASP to VB.NET) & 16 licenses (AFL to ZPL); information on the project, copyright information, & code; External links to home of project/code;

LookAhead(Surfwax)                                                                                                          22 September 2005
pioneering dynamic search navigation; type-ahead, auto-completion, or "suggestion" methodology search palette (SearchPal™) offering semantic- & lexically-related search; predates Google Suggest by 1 year; see also Yahoo Instant Search;

Lucene                                                                                                                                9 April 2005
high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written entirely in Java freely available online; See ebook Lucene in Action;

Make Your Own Search Engine: Step by Step Eurekster Swicki Tutorial                              9 November 2005

MediaMiner                                                                                                                       27 October 2005
data miner tool for news, press  releases, stocks and blogs; save results as HTML, .pdf or XML (Atom or RSS); search for specific media & present on the web as XML or HTML; useful for generating reports & sharing data; free trial;

Offline Search Tools: Best CD-ROM & DVD Indexers                                                        6 January 2005

Okapiland Explorer                                                                                                             28 March 2005
Web search, RSS reader, & news aggregator usesYahoo, Google, Technorati APIs; requires Java, Google API key, Yahoo application key, Technorati

Onfolio(ver. 2.0)    Collect. Organize. Share                                                                       26 February 2005
read RSS news feeds; collect, organize & publish to email, weblogs & web sites; integrates Feedster; works  with Firefox; (12 March 2006) technology incorporated into MS Windows Live™ Toolbar to enhance the way people discover, save & reuse personal & professional Web research;

OnlineBookmarkManager Synchronizer                                                                             30 May 2006
synchronize bookmarks between Firefox browser & OnlineBookmarkManager in sync between multiple computers; Synchronize/Export/Import Bookmarks, Directories, & dynamic Bookmarks (a.k.a RSS-Feeds or Livemarks); Firefox 1.5 - 1.5.0.* ALL;

Online Collaboration Tools  See Screensharing technology  & Post-processing tools (below)
del.icio.us & furl, allow anyone to see your bookmarks, Gibeo permits you to select only the particular people you want to see them

Open Tagging Systems  ( See Folksonomies)                                                               28 March 2005

Page monitors (See Alert services above)

Post-processing tools                                                                                                     3 December 2004
See also Online Collaboration Tools  & Screensharing technology; store, organize & present research with Onfolio; AskSam's Surfsaver;  Catchtheweb;  ContentSaver;  HTTrack;  Keepoint;  Netsnippets

Powermarks                                                                                                                    26 August 2003
Award winning bookmark manager & personal search engine for  Internet; 30 days trial; US$24.95 (single user)

PubSub Web Monitoring Service                                                                                     26 April 2005
50000+ Internet newsgroups; SEC(Edgar) filings, press releases from major wire services, FAA airport delay alerts; compatible with all Internet delivery systems - email, SMS/ PDA/mobile devices, IM networks; results in browser, RSS/Atom newsreader, alerts in PubSub IM sidebar;  See Web monitoring services;  PubSub Government - select pre-built subscriptions to an updated stream of news & comment about government officials & committees from PubSub's sources; PubSub: community lists. The first four are Law List, PR List, Librarian List, & Fashion List; .

ResearchGuide                                                                                                                 29 July 2003
Web-based management of subject guides for academic libraries; open-source software helps librarians make subject guides & information pages using Web forms; latest available patches for Open Source library systems.

Resources for Information Architects  web sites, books, discussion lists & conferences (Update, February 2004) 

RoboForm search toolbar& password manager                                                                14 June 2005
Works with Internet Explorer, browsers based on IE & browsers based on Gecko (Mozilla, Firefox, Netscape 7) & other supported browsers; recognises forms on web pages & captures saved logins; passwords protected by master login; "safenotes" to securely store ATM passwords, Social Security no's, Amazon client ID info; searches Yahoo by default & configurable to search Google, MSN, Ask Jeeves et al; 30 day free trial, US$29.99 includes future upgrades; support for USB, Palm or Pocket PC devices costs $9.99 each

SearchBar                                                                                                                         22 August 2002
free; "teach" it to work with almost any search engine or site; memorizes how you search, replicates search pattern; change search term & replicate other search variables; download advanced searches of Microsoft KnowledgeBase, TechWeb site, Langa.Com site, Google's archives of Usenet/Newsgroups,online dictionaries, price search sites enhancements to SearchBar in preconfigured form.

Search Engine Optimizer software                                                                                       4 January 2005
tracks 62+ items on a web page to be checked BEFORE submission to a search engine; a search engine compliance check like an HTML validator

SearchSolver                                                                                                                     3 June 2005
federated search functionality across sources from multiple vendors, including electronic journals, bibliographic databases, Internet portals, & OPACs; display results, rank or export consistently across all interfaces in a single step; refine & limit search results; Advanced query parsing to search beyond keyword (also title, author, descriptors); explore further using a specific database's native interface; link to external sources, using Ovid LinkSolver or other OpenURL resolvers.

Search toolbars ( Robin Good's mini guide )                                                                        31 July 2003

Search Tools for Web Sites & Intranets                                                                               28 March 2004

SearchView (free download)                                                                                               27 October 2005
Windows desktop application to search multiple search engines & save results as XML (RSS or ATOM) or as a pdf file; SearchView functionality is incorporated into the web research tool BigBlogZoo Classic & MediaMiner;

Semantic Web research resources (Marcus Zillman)                                                             8 April 2006

Seruku                                                                                                                               14 June 2004
($24.95/Windows only/45 day free trial) toolbar application to find & access pages from your browser; history file contains only urls & page titles..automatically makes a 'snapshot', stores it locally, indexes content & allows keyword search; 2 separate programs: toolbar & an indexing/database program separate from the Internet Explorer cache. No information transmitted over the web; Mozilla version in development…future releases will add any web engine to the toolbar as from NeedleSearch or the Copernic Toolbar.

Social bookmarking                                                                                                         3 December 2004
FURL; Frassle; MyWeb 2.0 & Del.icio.us (Yahoo); Spurl; Connotea; BlinkList See alsoWeb content managers & Folksonomies overview; A General Review (April 2005);  Digg; Yummy - social bookmarking forPDF documents; Social Search Is Here: Yahoo Web 2.0 Makes Access To The Web Long Tail Possible; RawSugar; Shadows; Social Bookmarking/Tagging/Community Search Services Reviewed; Submit your bookmarks to multiple sites at once with Socializer; Myspace - sample layouts, LiveJournal, Facebook - online directory that connects people through social networks at schools; Diigo social annotation; PreFound; Filangy; Google Co-op; My Stuff (Ask.com);

Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog from Marcus P. Zillman                       3 October 2005

Social networking search technologies                                                                             29 March 2004
Eurekster, Orkut, Ryze, Linkedin, Aware desktop search; LiveJournal.com; Digg; See also Folksonomies overview; Yahoo! 360°(Beta); Findory & Filangy; StumbleUpon(Firefox add-on); Internetworking;

Speed Browse:Frequently-visited Web Sites Free Browsing Tool  (Michael Fagan)               7 March 2003
record list of web pages you frequently visit, browse by "next" button; see also Page Info Viewer & Google Ultimate Interface

Spurl.net                                                                                                                               5 April 2005
keep track of information online storing links, titles & information about page, including copy of page when you read it; full-text search of all pages you've spurled; accessible from any computer; links to related pages others have spurled; April 2005 launch of  beta of Zniff.com - the human search engine to deliver unique, hand-picked results; (Social networking) del.icio.us & Furl are also searchable now & both have tags (unlike Zniff)

StumbleUpon                                                                                                                       22 October 2004
spywareless browser toolbar rates websites with your profile & ratings; configuration settings determine which version; supported OS are Windows, Macintosh & Linux; for Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mozilla & Firefox; free & paid versions; rss-subscribe to ratings; Unofficial StumbleUpon FAQ;

SurfSaver 2.3                                                                                                                       23 February 2003
browser add-on;  store Web pages in searchable folders; save formats of pages entirely, so graphics, hypertext links, & frames preserved intact; enter notes & comments; compatible with all systems running Windows 95+

Surfwax News Accumulator                                                                                                 13 April 2005
news aggregator which offers multiple seamless search & retrieval including FocusWords, SearchSets, SiteSnaps, ContextZooming & InfoCubby & now Nextaris for capturing web content, sharing files, publishing blogs, messaging & networking

Swickis(Eurekster)                                                                                                              21 November 2005
search results you're interested in, pull in new relevant information as indexed, organize in a customizable widget for your web site or blog, complete a buzz cloud constantly updated to show hot search terms in your community.

TagCloud automated folksonomy tool                                                                                    5 November 2005
searches RSS feeds you specify, extracts keywords from content & lists them according to prevalence within the RSS feeds. Clicking on tag's link will display a list of all article abstracts associated with that keyword;

Technorati                                                                                                                            1 March 2004
Specify a Weblog URL & see who's linking to it; now testing keyword search; Technorati Kitchen; Technorati favourites;

TenLinks.com: Ultimate Directories for Technology Professionals                                         23 March 2002
provides privileged access to Web-based resources by seeking out, evaluating, & reviewing Web materials for its target audiences -- professionals in technology- related or driven fields -- short list of key industry categories, such as computer-aided design (CAD) & global information systems (GIS), as well as broader classifications like civil engineering & architecture; top ten list of recommended sites for each broad category & further suggestions, including product reviews, general reference sources, field-specific job search information; online 24/7; available via email; archives;

Topic Maps                                                                                                                         11 May 2004
See also What are topicmaps?; Searching Smarter, Not Harder; Metadata? Thesauri? Taxonomies? Topic Maps!; What Are Topic Maps?;

Wayback Machine                                                                                                                13 January 2002
launched 24 Oct 2001; pages in Internet Archive's web archive. In October 2001 the Internet Archive provided public access to 100 terrabytes+ of monthly snapshots of  WWW from 1996; access to all past contents of a given URL; 10 billion pages now (7 June 2003 )

Web Admin's Guide to Site Search Tools                                                                               21 November 2002

Web-Based Bookmark Managers    See also MyBookmarks.com;                                         14 March 2003

Web clipping services                                                                                                          26 April 2005
(Online, May/June 2005) compares traditional alerting services (Dialog, LexisNexis) to Web clipping services & media analysis tools; traditional media services find historic business strategy, historic marketing strategy, management biographies, mergers & acquisitions, geographical markets, R&D. Web clipping services, media analysis tools & consumer Web sites (Epinions, Consumer Democracy) find future geographic markets, future customer segments, products, new product development, customer service, customer satisfaction, brand image, promotion, employees' attitudes & morale,d trade unions; 

Web Mon 1.0.7                                                                                                                      23 March 2003
keep track of new & updated information on frequently visited Web pages; check an unlimited number of Web pages at set intervals; pop-up alerts & sounds;  built-in help system; freeware compatible with systems running Windows 95+

Web monitoring services                                                                                                     11 November 2004
Track Engine - free tracking of 5 pages/100kb; $53 option to track up to 50 bookmarks(daily, weekly); WatchThatPage- free monitor of unlimited pages, email daily, weekly, several days/week; Wisdom Change - unlimited pages free; ChangeDetection - no login, no registration, few features; ChangeDetect free monitoring of 5 pages; track changes to password protected content in 100-500 page subscription modes; InfoMinder - 10 page/90 day trial, 4 plans 100 pages (US$24.95/yr) - 250 pages(US$49.90/yr) - 500 pages (US$99/yr) - 1000 pages (US$179/yr); Trackle - 14 day free trial; US$1.95/m or US$19.95/yr maximum 25 pages; TracerLock - 30 day free trial(credit card registration) Web monitoring service for words, phrases or advanced search strings(check 20 specific URLs); Copernic Tracker - download & instal 30 day free trial. US$49.95 word match criteria, different alert options for each page, changes highlighted; Website-Watcher - download; 30 day free trial; US$29.95 Personal; US$99 Business ed; Mindit - defunct; PubSub

Whois Source                                                                                                                         10 December
displays home page for domain records of corresponding Web sites; wildcard search of current/deleted/expired whois domains ; See also Global Whois