There is more than one way to skin a cat and more than one way to do a search Online. Thanks to a few folks who had some good ideas, there are even more options out there for you to choose from. Searching is something that we all do from time to time. Even if you are one of those folks who only search Google every 6 months for your own name, these tools can be very helpful to have.
The first one is hard to say, so you had better get ready to bookmark it. YaGoohoo!gle is a nice little tool that allows you to search both Yahoo and Google at the same time. It does this by opening your search results up in two frames. If you are still using an 800 by 600 screen, I wouldn’t recommend this for you. However I have plenty of screen space to take up, so reading through both frames is no problem for me. I also tend to use Yahoo and Google more than MSN’s new search. Old habits are hard to break.
The second searching tool is called Find Forward. Instead of having to remember long prefixes to put before your search, you can now just select the way you want to search from the sub-menu and get to work. One of the sidebar quotes asks, “Why isn’t Google doing this?” and I have to tell you I don’t know. You’d think this would be more handy than having to memorize prefixes to search in specific ways.
Check them both out and let me know what you think! Are there any other cool searching tools I haven’t stumbled across yet? Leave me a comment with a few of your favorite ways to search and I’ll be sure to take a second look.
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