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07/27/2001 Archived Entry: "27-July-2001 -- 12 Cool Sites and Tools for Searchers"

12 Cool Sites and Tools for Searchers -- "From time to time, SearchDay takes quick looks at interesting search-related sites, services and tools. While you'll want to consider adding many of these to your search toolkit, others are just for fun."

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Check out SearchShots, a visual search engine. The results of your query are a series of screenshots. Very interesting.

Posted by John S. Rhodes @ 07/27/2001 10:20 AM EST

You might also want to check out Teoma, which is a lot like Google. Maybe better. However, I love the Google toolbar and their Image Search. It will take a lot to get me to switch from Google -- I'm very loyal.

Posted by John S. Rhodes @ 07/27/2001 10:27 AM EST

MapPlanet would be better if its maps included country, state and province boundaries. It's terribly time consuming to navigate without these common visual aids. The zoom bars are also not readily understood without first clicking them to determine what a big and small bar does - 50-50 chance of guessing its function correctly.

SearchShots is cool, but very cumbersome on a modem connection. My fast connection loaded the text quickly, but I timed-out waiting for the images to load. Plain text Google just works faster for everyone. (And does seeing a screen shot really help me accomplish my goals any better?)

Domain Surfer is my favorite for advanced searches on domain names fragments.

Posted by JS @ 07/27/2001 01:48 PM EST

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