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October 2008

VideoSurf Finds People Inside Web Videos

Search site and aggregator VideoSurf isn't perfect at what it tries to do, but it can be occasionally, surprisingly good at spotting particular faces inside videos. The indexing engine (currently in beta, of course) sorts through videos from most of the popular Flash-based sites and lets you search to find only videos with, say, Jerry Seinfeld's actual image in them. A few of my searches turned up false positives, but others yielding surprising accuracy, and VideoSurf's interface lets you skip right to the sections featuring your searched man or woman. VideoSurf is a free to use, though you can sign up to save your searches.

July 2008

Convivea - Home of Bit Che - Torrent Search

after i discovered bit che, i never looked back: Bit Che is a simple tool that quickly searches popular bit torrent sites for files. * Super quick searching * Able to preview torrent details * Opens torrents in your favorite downloader

Featured Firefox Extension: CyberSearch Integrates Search Results with Your AwesomeBar

The CyberSearch Firefox extension transforms Firefox 3's AwesomeBar into a dynamic search box capable of returning results from popular sites like Wikipedia, Google, and more. The extension is fully customizable

Google: Remove affiliate links from your Google search results

sing Google advanced operators (like, -site:bizrate -site:ebay -site:shopping.com), Give Me Back My Google removes known resellers from your search results - and it really does clean things up.

September 2007

Bookmarking: Custom Google Search Your Del.icio.us Bookmarks with deliGoo - Lifehacker

Search the contents of every web page you've ever bookmarked with del.icio.us using a dynamically built Google Custom Search engine from deliGoo. Just point your browser to the deliGoo homepage

April 2007

Yahoo launches Alpha search engine

Taking a page from Google's Searchmash experiment, the Yahoo Alpha search engine provides neatly organized results from the web, Flickr, Yahoo Answers and other sources.Specifically, Alpha generates a dynamic search-results page with modules that can expa