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Are you aware of all the additional features available in the downloadable A9 search toolbar that make it an excellent choice for marketers? First of all, since Amazon.com owns website-ranking company Alexa, it will come as no surprise to learn that Alexa's ranking information is incorporated right into the A9 toolbar, which eliminates the need to toggle back and forth between your Alexa toolbar and a search engine to get the lowdown on any website. Second, A9 is powered by the Google database, so if Google is your search engine of choice (and you don't use the Google toolbar), that base is covered. What A9 also brings to the table are Amazon.com's excellent search features: the "Search Inside the Book" technology (useful when researching marketing concepts, authors or current trends); a stored search history, which updates itself whenever you conduct a search that you have previously run so you can see your click history plus whatever new or unexplored resources are available; and the ability to make and store notes on your searches for future reference. You can also seamlessly search Amazon.com (of course), the Internet Movie Database, a dictionary and a thesaurus.
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Amazon's A9 search engine features a unique twist called Block View, which allows users to view storefront images when doing a business search. For instance, put in Macy's and you'll get lots of Macy's images, logos, product shots and especially parade shots. You also see images of buildings and the space on either side of the business you select, so if you want to find a store near Macy's but can't remember the name of it, you might find it by viewing the Macy's photos. To pull this off, A9 took over 20 million photographs in the top 10 markets. As with Amazon, users can review businesses on a 1 to 5 star rating scale. Watch this feature expand as cities are added and business owners are able to modify listings, content and graphics.
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AlltheWeb.com is highly respected search engine where you can search not only for websites but also for news, pictures, video clips, MP3s and FTP files. Some may argue that its advanced search features are easier to use than those of many other search engines. On the advanced search page you can easily include word, IP address or domain name filters, and you can request that results are in a specific file format, that were created/updated on a specific date or are a specific byte size, and much more. You can also customize your preferences to the point where your custom-written queries will be stored and run for you. A good choice for advanced searching.
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Blinkx is an "always on" search tool that, once downloaded to your computer, constantly searches the Web, broadcast news videos, news sites, blogs, shopping sites and your very own computer hard drive for information relating to whatever you are reading or writing in your active desktop window. It uses self-learning algorithms to understand the context of what appears on your computer screen. As a result, you can seamlessly find resources relating to a specific topic or concept by trolling the Blinkx results listings at any given moment, rather than actively launching a Web or hard drive search (although you can launch a search as well).
Blinkx will search for over 200 media types, such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents, attachments to emails, PDF files and video and audio clips. There is no cost to download and use the tool; it appears that one source of revenue will be sponsored product and service suggestions via the shopping channel.
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Did you know that there's an Association of Former Intelligence Officers? Discover them and more in The CI Resource Index, the competitive intelligence search engine. Additional categories include: education; companies; publications; software; and documentation, which contains numerous articles and tutorials on the art and science of competitive intelligence.
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The "deep" Web or "invisible" Web refers to all the content that resides in
searchable databases online. Search engines don't pick up this content
because the databases only reveal their content in response to a direct query in the form of a dynamic page. Once the query is over, the page disappears, leaving nothing for search engines to spider and categorize. Over the past years many companies have tried to tap into the invisible Web by offering tools that allow you to query thousands of databases at once. These tools can be a treasure trove of information and "deep" resources. Alas, many of the companies have disappeared over the years (or they have eliminated their free interfaces) but one remains - CompletePlanet. Here you can search 103,000 databases and specialty search engines in one fell swoop. You'll also find advanced tools to help you refine these seemingly vast searches into more manageable byte-sized pieces.
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As Google goes, so goes the world. Online sales surge and dip based on
retailers' Google rankings, online marketers follow their Google listings
more closely than their stock portfolios, and ordinary mortals "Google"
bosses, potential dates and old college roommates in a 21st century version of the reference check. The site's deceptively simple entry way represents both a highly complex search technology and a cultural phenomenon.
Developed by two graduate students at Stanford University in 1998, Google's technology is based on a search algorithm that uses incoming links as an indicator of an individual page's value. Beyond the sheer volume of votes (links) a page receives, Google also analyzes the pages that cast the votes in order to determine page ranking. Thus, high-quality sites receive a higher PageRank, which Google remembers each time it conducts a search. Google combines page ranking with text-matching techniques to find pages that are both important and relevant to a search. But that's not all... you can search for images, news, Usenet commentary, catalog items and more. You can also avail yourself of a seemingly endless (and constantly growing) number of advanced search tools. Get to know Google. It's a marketer's delight.
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Harris' database is a reference tool for sales and marketing professionals. It contains information on more than 600,000 U.S. businesses. The database covers the entire manufacturing sector, including branch and headquarters locations. The three major groups covered in the database are manufacturing, services and all-business, which is a combination of manufacturing and services. Segment coverage includes high tech and electronics manufacturers. Company profiles list mailing address, telemarketing information and full profiles with 35 information fields. There are several ways to purchase this information. The traditional print directory has four sections that allow you to find prospects in specific geographic areas or industries. Prices vary by and size of target company. There are print and CD-Rom versions of both the Reference Directories and the Selectory Databases, that give you search, sort, print and export options. And there's a free 7-day trial of the online database available at the site.
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HotBot, owned by Lycos, is a favorite among researchers and the Web elite because of its many power search features. To begin with, it offers the ability to search either HotBot, Google, Lycos or Ask Jeeves in one place. Since it's not a metasearch engine, it won't blend the results, but the benefit is that you can integrate any of HotBot's advanced features into your searches all in one convenient place. For example, you can add any advanced search requirement to your HotBot home page, so you can basically build your own advanced launching pad feature by feature. Date filters? Word filters? Media requirements (returned pages must include images, Shockwave, Real Audio/Video, Java, Acrobat or MP3 files, for example)? No problem! Another worthwhile place to build your advanced searching skills.
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Ixquick‘s metasearch tool applies your search query to 13 search engines. Results are ranked according to how relevant each of the search engines consider each returned website to be to your search. You can search for for MP3 files, photo and news as well. Ixquick supports regular searches, natural
language searches and advanced Boolean searches, and knows which engines handle what types of searches. One of the cool features of Ixquick is that you can select or deselect the search engines that you want queried in your metasearch.
It’s also available in 14 languages.
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