Million Short

Million Short is a search engine that allows a user to remove up to remove the top 1 million most popular websites from the results lists. Depending on your search can remove the top 100, 1K, 10K, or 100K websites from the drop down option next to the search box.

20 Google Search Shortcuts

A list of Google shortcuts that are hidden behind the search engine giant search box.  Give them a try, please. Provided by LifeHacker.

Introducing the Knowledge Graph

Learn with Google Webinars

Google provided a list of webinars for those who are interested in learning more about the search engine giant products and solutions. You can register for upcoming or view recorded sessions.

Listorious

Listorious is a search tool that can locate approximately over 2 million Twitter users. You find anyone by region or profession and powered by data from list curators. You search on various topics from business, social media, technology, and etc.

Startpage

Startpage is a search engine that uses Google and protects your privacy.

10 Google Search Tricks You Might Not Know

Christine Erickson of Mashable Tech provides a list of Google Search tricks that you didn't know existed by the search engine giant.

Open Site Explorer

Open Site Explorer is a free search engine tool that performs competitive and marketing research. You can search 65 billion URLs and 9.2 trillion links.

Hey, Google, what happened to Advanced Search?

I went to Google a few minutes ago to run a search in the Advanced Search template, only to find the little gear icon missing! Google is making it more difficult to find their Advanced Search and Scholar features (just overnight), but I found ways around this.

Advanced Search - http://www.google.com/advanced_search
Google Scholar - http://scholar.google.com/

Stealth-Search engine

Stealth is a a new privacy search engine that has no tracking, ads, recording of IP addresses, and cookies. You can search in secret. Want to learn more? Here's how it works, please view here.

DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo is a search engine that uses information from crowd-sourced websites that provide instant answers, improved search relevancy, less spam and emphasizes privacy by not sharing or recording one's information online.

NowRelevant

NowRelevant is a search engine that can monitor millions of sources and fees to give users the most up to date pertinent information on a subject. It allows users to access a wealth of resources dated back to the past 14 days from the time of their search. Advantages of NowRelevant are:

1. Video Embedding as a PPC Ad - Use a video that is currently online as your PPC ad and have it show up next to search results as the user viewing listings pertaining to your video.
2. Banner Ad as a PPC Ad - Use a 250x250 banner as your PPC ad, as opposed to just text
3. Affiliate Network Friendly - Use hoplinks or affiliate links for your direct linking
4. 20% Affiliate Referral Program - Earn 20% of all deposits from people you refer to the NowRelevant.com PPC program, forever. 2nd Tier earnings at 5% as well.
5. No Traffic Outsourcing - We do not outsource any ad space or take any other advertisers ads for NowRelevant.com. There is minimal chance of phantom clicks or fraud clicks due to this rule. Say goodbye to ad campaigns that received "700 clicks" and no sales or email opt ins. We only show ads that are put directly on our network and we NEVER outsource your impressions to meet a goal.

Here is a video to that demonstrates the comparison between Google and NowRelevant.

10 Fun and Interesting Things to do with Wolfram Alpha

10 Fun and Interesting Things to do with Wolfram Alpha

Another fun, geeky post from Greg Lambert at 3 Geeks and a Law Blog. Greg lists fun and interesting computations and other things you can do with Wolfram Alpha, including create QR Codes and barcodes.

Google Ditches "+" and Introduces "Verbatim"

Google Ditches "+" and Introduces "Verbatim"

Will our searches be less precise?

Fee Fie Foe Firm

Fee Fie Foe Firm is a legal search engine that provides users better access to law firms and legal services. It primarily focuses on law firm websites and the following content:

Firm profiles, Practitioner profiles, Media releases, Legal news & updates, Client seminars, Case note & other expert legal analysis, Newletters, bulletins & other publications

Also, it can be used to keep up with current information in the legal market along with locating a legal expert.

Google flight search

Google flight-search service takes off
CNet.com

Google is adding a new airline schedule feature to its search site today, making looking for flights potentially as easy as googling yourself.

The feature, rolling out over the course of the day, will initially be limited to some U.S. cities and show results for round-trip economy flights only. (cont)

Related:

An early look at our Flight Search feature
Google Inside Search blog

Google drops features

According to the Law Librarian Blog, Google has quietly dropped some search features. See more at Google Drops Some Content and Search Features.

Cool Google Tricks

We've probably all stumbled across Google features like defining words, finding books, or finding people. Did you know there are many more? For example, finding the weather in a particular city, or tracking a package by just typing in the number. Find out more at http://www.google.com/help/features.html.

Inside Google's Instant Autocomplete

SearchEngineLand.com has an in depth look at how Google's instant autocomplete feature works. It is worth the time to read it.

New Google feature

Exciting or disturbing? The new Google +1 feature requires a Google account and a public profile. Read one take on this at So anyone out there liking Google's +1? 3 Geeks and a Law Blog.