Firefox users have an almost unmanageable amount of add-ons, bookmarklets, user scripts and other tools for searching the Internet at their disposal. The choice is however severely limited when it comes to local searches. Local meaning searches on websites that are currently displayed in the Firefox web browser. The shortcut [CTRL F] allows them to [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

IFilters are plugins that are used by various indexing applications like Windows Search, the Windows indexing service, Windows Desktop Search, Exchange Server or SQL Server. An IFilter makes the contents of a filetype indexable and thus searchable. File contents cannot be indexed or searched if no IFilter plugin is available for that specific filetype. The [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Desktop search engines come in all sizes and shapes. One can download and install one of the desktop search engines provided by big companies like Microsoft’s Windows Search or Google Desktop Search or a third party software like Everything or Locate which usually prove to be more lightweight. TheSearchMan definitely falls in the second category [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

One thing that many webmasters and users do not like is that search engines keep them in the dark when they update their search engine, be it search engine algorithm changes or other updates. The Wolfram Alpha team seems to have felt the same way as they decided to release information about the first core [...]

Categories: Search Engines

A great way of testing a new search engine is to compare it to the dominant established search engine. BingAndGoogle offers a combined search interface that is more comfortable than working with two web browser windows or switching between tabs in the same window. The search engine mashup displays a single search form on the [...]

Categories: Search Engines

Worio is a clever mashup of several search engines, social bookmarking and personalization features. At its core stands the feature to add related information to searches performed by the user. Currently Google, Yahoo, Live and an internal search engine are at the user’s disposal. The search results are displayed on the left including their title, [...]

Categories: Online Services, Search Engines, The Web

Search tools usually begin to display results as soon as the user is entering some characters. Some instantly display hits while others require the use of the enter key to start the search. Everything – that’s the name of the portable software that is under review – uses a different approach. Like the name suggests [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Martin wrote an article in May about IconLook, a website where you can search for icons. I recently found another one, simply called Iconfinder, and as you would expect it enables you to find icons as well. During my testing I found that Iconfinder has more large icons in the 128×128 range. It also seems [...]

Categories: Search Engines, The Web

The Microsoft Filter Pack adds additional IFilters to the Windows operating system which are used by Windows Search and depending applications to index the contents of document formats. To be precise, the Microsoft Filter pack will register additional IFilters with the Microsoft Windows Indexing Service. The document formats that get added by the filter pack [...]

Categories: Windows