Web Search Tool Software Reviews and Downloads

Fact200

Fact200 is an Internet research tool that enables you to search multiple sources at once and create your custom search libraries by marking results, so that they will be included or ignored in subsequent searches. The program automatically downloads and saves a capture of the web pages behind the search results, so that you can preview the links without having to actually load the website. You can search for a term in several categories (news, Usenet, Images etc.) and customize which search engine source to use for each category. Fact200 has some interesting features and provides fast and relevant results, however it lacks proper documentation and the interface could use some improvements. Feature List Pre-Fetching Ensures that web pages actually exist and downloads them in parallel. Pre-fetched data also feeds into the preview, index, and library mechanisms. Previews Pre-rendered previews allow you to quickly view web pages through hover browsing or slideshows and to view thumbnails of any size. Indexing Web pages are indexed (with support for non-latin based languages) so that they can be easily retrieved or sub-filtered. Library Stores web pages along with their previews on your computer for quick retrieval, portability, independence, and privacy. Customizable Sources Allows you to query or retrieve web pages from a variety of sources including search engines, usenet, and RSS feeds. Real-Time filtering Results will appear as you type when searching through the Libary providing a more fluid search experience that allows for more experimentation. Real-time term suggestions Allows you to find the correct spellings, misspellings, or variations that will yield results. Unicode support Search in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Russian or any other language that Windows supports! No Frills Cookies, ActiveX, and javascript are disabled to prevent tracking, malware, and popup ads from interfering with the search experience. Personalized Search Search history, favorites, and browsing patterns are all stored to provide a personalized search experience. All data is stored on your computer/disk and never transmitted over the Internet to maintain privacy. Sorting Sort web pages by last viewed date, content date, load dates, or score. Saving Save result sets to preserve a specific list of web pages.

JiveQ - InfoClick

JiveQ - InfoClick enables you to quickly research words or phrases from within any application, using a variety of popular online sources. You can Shift-click or right-click on any word in your browser or document, and the program will bring up a small dialog that allows you to start a web search and launches the results in a custom browser window (Answer Browser ). JiveQ also includes an option to capture a full-screen snapshot of the current website that can be printed, copied or emailed. Other features include customizable search buttons, keyword highlighting, Windows Explorer integration and more.

Auto Web Browser

Auto Web Browser is a web search tool, that queries major search engines for the keywords you enter, and automatically downloads the resulting pages to your computer, and automatically surfs further, downloading other potentially interesting pages that were linked from the search engine results. The downloaded pages are organized in a tree view and by search engine, and you can quickly view them, since they are already pre-loaded. The program also allows you to load a list of URLs, and automatically pre-load all of them, so you can quickly browse through them.

MyLastSearch

MyLastSearch is a handy little tool that enables you to review your recent web searches. It scan the IE and Firefox browsing history and returns a formatted report with all web searches performed on Google, Yahoo and MSN Google, Yahoo and MSN. The report includes the time of the search, search term, web browser and other details, and can also be exported to HTML.

Multi Web Search Toolbar

Microsoft IE toolbar with an integrated Radio, Toolbox with tools/programs, E-mail notifier and more. You can choose/add your own features eg. Buttons to your programs and insert your favorite radio stations.Has also features like pop-up stopper and email notifier. The toolbar is updates automaticly and its complete with uninstaller.

Quero Toolbar

Quero Toolbar an address bar replacement for Internet Explorer that offers enhanced search features, advanced pop-up and ad blocking as well as other features including window resizing, page zoom, Flash blocking and more. The toolbar comes pre-configured with support for more than a dozen popular search engines.

Transfz

Transfz (pronounced transfuse) enables you to launch online searches from any document or application, by simply selecting the text and pressing a keyboard hotkey. In addition to standard web searches (Google, Yahoo etc.) you can also perform online dictionary lookups, Wikipedia searches or any other online query by creating custom entries for any site that offers a search feature. Transfz is also a clipboard manager and can keep track of the X last items copied to the clipboard. It can even process selected text, convert upper/lower case, count characters, insert dates and search/replace words in a selection. The processed text is automatically copied to the clipboard.

Search Engine Composer

Search Engine Composer enables you to create a web site search engine for online or offline usage. It automatically indexes a specified web site or local file structure, and builds a complete search engine, ready to use. The search engine works with Internet, Intranet and CD/DVD offline search, and also provides visitor search reports, including top 50 keywords, and search activity reports. The search engine can be either Java based, which requires no additional server components and can be used on CDs, or it can use PHP, which requires that your server is running PHP. The program is easy to use and offers a step-by-step interface and additional options to customize the search and result pages with use of templates. You can specify the file extensions to index (with support for PDF) and include pages or sections of a site, let the user search sections of a site and more. A quick and easy solution, if you need a search engine, without the need for any programming experience.

Subject Search Spider

Subject Search Spider (SSSpider) is intelligent Web agent that automates internet searches and returns results ranked by relevancy as well as text extracts and keyword highlights from the pages that are found. It queries multiple search engines for a phrase in any of 36 languages, eliminates dead and duplicate links and consolidates all results into one report. Unlike most other meta search tools, SSSpider does not rely on search engine results alone to determine the most relevant items. It also uses its own search mechanisms to analyze the returned results.

Xippee for Firefox

Xippee is a simple add-on for Firefox that can help you refine the search results in major search engines. You can select any word from the search results and choose to add or remove it from the query. The program will modify the query string and reload the page with the new results.

Wiki Clicky

Wiki Clicky simplifies the process of looking up information through the Wiki network of websites (Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikisource,Wikinews etc.). Simply highlight a word in any document or web page and press F9 (or custom key) to view the instant search results for the selected word.

EarthLink Toolbar

This browser toolbar alerts you before you visit a page that's on a list of suspicious Web sites. It also includes search and pop-up blocker tools.

JOC Web Finder

This software is a utility for searching for information on the Web. Enter any word, text string or question, click a button, and this will check all configured search engines to find Web pages related to your query. It also allows you to organize results in project files and export your results in different formats.

Earth Explorer

This program integrates high resolution satellite imagery and map information together to provide a 3D view of planet earth. Besides the vector map layers such as political boundaries, coastlines, islands, lakes and latitude-longitude grids, Earth Explorer also provides four types of point maps including 267 countries and regions, 40,000 ranked cities, 15,000 islands and 1,700 noteworthy historical earthquakes since 1980, and detailed tips information. You can rotate the globe, zoom in and out, or measure distance between any two points.

FirstStop WebSearch Business Edition

FirstStop WebSearch Business Edition searches the Web quickly and efficiently. It filters, verifies, aggregates and integrates results into a single list from where you can manage and browse the results. The program attempts to obtain only relevant results with the help of automatic validation and duplicates removal. You can select from different search modes, including a simple search, all words, any word or specific phrase as well as custom options. Additional features include a built-in query wizard, a search library, third party engines as well as the ability to import engines from the internet and to export search results to Microsoft Word and Excel.

iMetaSearch

If you've ever searched the Web, you know that sifting through 1000's of search results from many sources (such as web pages, blogs, groups, books, papers, etc) can be very time consuming. iMetaSearch is a fast, intelligent, extensible meta search tool that excellently speeds up gathering and analyzing results. It uses clustering, indexing, sorting, and a relevance network to quickly find your results. Just click an interesting index word or search result, and all index words and results are sorted by relevance to that interesting one.

Subject Search Siter

SSSiter is your personal intelligent Web agent which investigates a given Web site looking for your search phrase and finds information that can be buried in it. SSSiter provides you with the report with a ranked list of page links and text extracts. Using a powerful built-in text search engine, the program finds matches in 36 languages and reports results even if only part of the match is present or spelling varies. Furthermore, SSSiter is able to build maps of Web sites. SSSiter's Site Maps let you get an overview of the site contents and make it easy to navigate through the hierarchy of folders to zoom in on an area of interest. As SSSiter creates a mirror of Web sites on your computer, all subsequent searches and site map exploration can be quickly done in off-line mode.

GeoWhere

GeoWhere is a utility containing multiple useful tools that will make many jobs a lot easier and faster to do. - It contains a desktop search engine that will send queries to multiple search engines and return the results to you, saving you the trouble to visit all those search engines and manually typing your query into each one. - Search the web for the latest world news. - Unique system to search discussion forums. - Find and test proxy servers to surf anonymous and speed up your surfing. - Check your Netscape, Opera and Internet Explorer bookmarks. - Find identical files on your disks and networks. - Currency converter with always updated rates. - Conversion of measurement units: pounds to kilogram, feet to meters etc. Divx/Mp3 calculator - Domain name search, WhoIs.

Libera Me

A revolutionary toolbar that uses an AI-based algorithm (a registered patent) to power up and improve any of your Google or Yahoo Web searches by showing you only those results that are relevant for you according to the contexts/terms you select, and all of this in a matter of seconds. "Libera Me" provides you with a list of topics, every time you search the Web. Upon selecting the relevant topics, the machines create the perfect search query for you, and provide you with enhanced search-results within seconds. All you have to do is use the Google or Yahoo search engines as usual, click on the "Libera Me" toolbar button, and let the magic work.

Viewpoint Toolbar

Viewpoint Toolbar is a visual web search companion and Favorites manager that displays thumbnails of the current search result (web pages) along the top of your browser screen. You can also dog ear selected pages to visit them later, or hover your mouse over a thumbnail to get a larger view. The program allows you to manage your IE Favorites in the same way, by displaying a thumbnail image of the web site associated with the Favorite entry. Viewpoint Toolbar also includes a popup blocker that allows you to block and review popups from an unique popup bin. The only downside of the program is that the visual search engine results are limited to Yahoo results and cannot display thumbnails for any other search engine. However, this can also become handy as it automatically displays the Yahoo result thumbnails on top, even if you search a different search engine like Google, giving you a second opinion and twice the results.

Unoh Search

Search engines cannot search for Websites/Pages that require users to login. However, with Unoh Search, even that is made possible without going through the hassle of logging in. It's perfect for people who not only want fast but accurate results!

WebSeeker

This program gathers and compares results from several search engines, removing duplicates. Boolean operators are supported and it returns a single, alphabetized list of results.

Cli Web Search

Cli Web Search is a command-line tool that enables you to launch a web search in your default web browser. It supports several major search engines including Google, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, Wikipedia and others. Can come handy if used from a batch file or via command-line from other applications.

Okapiland Explorer

Okapiland Explorer is Internet Search in Composite Page Mode (CPM) that displays linked pages themselves in addition to hyperlinks. All pages can be displayed by scrolling the pages. Internet Search is good for the quick search or clear search, but the deep search or ambiguous search requires your effort. The CPM can save your operation.

Tbtoyl toolbar

Tbtoyl toolbar is free. You can do multiple searches at once, search from anywhere on the web, take the Alexa test for your site and get free tools to promote your business. Why not to use Google maps to find your roads? ...You can place your website inside our toolbar and get free traffic to your site. You can personalize the toolbar as you want.

Webaroo

Webaroo enables you to surf and search portions of the web that interest you without an Internet connection. It works by compressing and downloading relevant content to your hard drive, which you can then search and surf, using a browser based search engine interface. Webaroo offers several pre-compiled web packs that include content for specific interests or locations, and you can also add your favorite web sites to the list. Adding of custom URLs is rather limited though, and we would have expected to see some options to gather search engine results, news reports or similar content. Unlike other webpage downloaders, Webaroo analyzes the content and select the pages that are most relevant to the topic and require the least storage space. Your content can then be browsed on your PC or laptop, or synchronized to a mobile device. The currently available selection of web packs includes all of Wikipedia, several city guides, World Fact Book and much more.

The ToseekA Toolbar

The ToseekA Toolbar harnesses the power of ToseekA's all-in-one search platform, which allows you to search the best of the Web, all in a single search, all from a simple toolbar. With the ToseekA Toolbar, you can search ToseekA.com quickly and easily for information like: Web search, dictionary definitions, encyclopedia entries, images, comparison shopping, questions/answers and you can even leave comments about your favorite topics. The ToseekA Toolbar also allows you to: search for any topic on any Web page by highlighting and right clicking the keyword, block pop ups automatically, fill out forms quickly and easily, highlight your search query on ToseekA search results pages, and even hide and restore all browser windows with quick and customizable keys.

Web Search Bar

Web Search Bar is an Internet Explorer toolbar that allows you to enter search phrase and search for web matches from different search engines. The software features predefined URLs for Google, Yahoo, MSN Search, Ask Jeeves, AOL Search, Overture, Altavista, Netscape and is easily configurable allowing you to add search engines of your choice

Openfind Enterprise Search

Openfind Enterprise Search (OES) is designed for easy installation and simple configuration, allows setting up intranet document search and Internet website search in minutes. With multi-lingual search capability, OES can deal with double bytes as well as single bytes contents. It supports mostly general file types, like web pages, Microsoft Office files, Adobe PDF files, plain-text files, compressed files, multi-media files, and filename search as well. Moreover, OES also provides many useful functions to reduce the maintenance effort, like index/schedule management, real-time index progress and summary/detail report, etc. The free edition enables enterprises to search for up to 10,000 documents.

Lost Goggles

LostGoggles is a nifty add-on (BHO) for Internet Explorer that automatically adds preview images to your Google search results. There are no additional toolbars to open - the program inserts the thumbnails directly into the Google search results whenever you perform a Google search.

FreshFind

FreshFind is a small utility, that enables you to start a search with your favorite search engine without having to launch your browser first. It opens a small input dialog whenever you press a keyboard hotkey (e.g Win+S) that lets you input the keywords and launch a search in a search engine of your choice. The program comes pre-configured with several popular search engines (Google, MSN, AOL etc.) and you can add your own search engines as well, allowing you to search almost any site that provides a search option.

Telescope

Telescope is a meta search tool that allows you to search multiple major search engines at once and consolidate the results in a single result list. It supports boolean and natural language queries and automatically ranks the pages by relavancy. In addition, it offers support for image searches, news searches and directory searches. It can also validate links and export the results to HTML. Advanced users can fiddle with the config file and edit or add search engines to the list. The interface is plain vanilla, but efficient and straight forward to use.

Watson

Search Web sites, desktop search applications, blogs, news sites, research services and your company's internal knowledge systems. Since Watson understands the context of your work, it is able to find information that is relevant to what you are doing in real time. There is no need for you to visit separate Web sites and search boxes. The program's sidebar interface delivers relevant search results to your desktop while you work in Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Outlook, Internet Explorer and Firefox.

Congoo Netpass Toolbar

FINALLY - FREE access to premium and subscription content with the Congoo Netpass. Get past subscription barriers fast. The Congoo NetPass is the only toolbar that provides free introductory access to the Webs most useful content. Gain access to financial and investment insights, reference information, newspapers archives, market research, political commentary and education resources. Simply download and activate the NetPass to begin accessing the Webs most valuable content.

DefaultBAR

DefaultBAR is a new way for better Internet search. Install the bar and you will improve the resounts of your Internet search. Thematic searches, of video and images, the quotations financial institutions of the Italian are these some of the functionalities of the bar. DefaultBAR is beyond the limits of the search.

WordClick

Click on any word in a webpage or email to automatically get results from your favorite search engine. WordClick is a free search utility program that allows you to easily retrieve search by clicking, double-clicking or Alt-clicking on any word in a webpage or email. You choose what search engine results are returned. WordClick does not contain any adware or spyware, and does not collect any personal information

Web Scraper Lite

Eliminate cut and paste! Web spider / web crawler using web data extraction / screen scraping technology. Use the web extract for web data mining of contact lists, product catalogs, govt. databases, real estate listings. Our easiest product yet!

Web Scraper Plus+: Web Spider Edition

Build a custom web spider / web crawler using web data extraction / screen scraping technology. Use the web extract for web data mining of contact lists, product catalogs, government databases, real estate listings, or build a custom email extractor.

Quintura Search

Using Quintura Search, you can create a search scope using a search cloud of tags related to a search query, make search scope more specific and personalize the scope by adding or subtracting tags, refine search results removing search links or Web sites from the result list, save the search scope into a file and email it to your friends, and monitor new on the Web related to your search scope.

termBlaster

termBlaster is a plain and simple, but efficient search tool that allows you to quickly look up the search engine results for various keywords. It uses a (customizable) list of search engines, and a list of keywords (terms) and you can quickly switch results between search engines and/or the terms that you are searching for. Advanced users can also add their own search engines, using the proper query string. The program comes with a built-in browser display, you can save/load a list of terms and more.

Media Search

Find MP3, MPEG, AVI and any other music, video, document or software files on the Internet. You can create your own search criteria, file groups and filters, and download the retrieved media files. It can be configured to work with most search engines. You can also specify a URL and a crawl depth for the software, to start scraping media files. You can apply filters and create custom media file groups to search. All the search campaigns can be saved into a history database and called up using the History panel view. The history items can be modified or the whole history disabled.

HelikoSearch

HelikoSearch is an efficient search engine tool, that allows you to search the Internet using multiple search engines at once. The results are compiled into a single list, that can be viewed as list or in HTML format (similar to search engine results). You can validate the results, remove duplicate links, sort by column and use the built-in browser to browse the results. Additional features include custom categories, annotations, export options and more.

Light Web Searcher

Search for textual information in Web sites. This program performs only local information searches. The main advantage is that it searches for a data directly in the pages of site (downloading and keeping them on user's computer) rather than just in the internal database, which likely contains outdated information.

AmiPic Lite

Find and download Web pages, pictures, movies, MP3s and other files with AmiPic. The program features a file splitter, pop-up blocker and detailed text search in saved documents. When saving Web pages on hard disk it automatically removes unsafe HTML fragments, such as scripts and applets. You can add new search engines manually without program modification.

FirstStop WebSearch Standard

FirstStop WebSearch (Standard) is a fully customizable, search engine utility, that searches multiple search engines and web sites simultaneously. By utilizing the resources of the desktop, FirstStop WebSearch provides features like background downloading, random or sequential viewing of results, sorting capabilities by column headers, results saved as XML or HTML files, keyword history searches, third party search sources and categories and other customizable settings.

AimingClick Online Reference Tool

This software provides online references, translations and descriptions for words you highlight in any Windows application. It is a reference book, dictionary, encyclopedia, Web search engine and other information sources in one software tool. Sources can be queried by one or two mouse clicks, without typing a search query.

Telescope Search

Search Web directories, image search engines, news, encyclopedias and freeware. It can access seven Web search engines and 38 search engines in total. Duplicate results are removed. Telescope supports Boolean operators and translates them for each search engine. The Verify feature checks the relevance of each page, removing broken links in the process, and can also generate summaries. The history feature stores previous searches and search results may be saved as HTML.

focuseek searchbox

This software is a full-text search engine that can spider Web or intranet sites, or index data you feed to it, and make it available for searching through a Web form. It supports a variety of input formats, and is scriptable via a SOAP API, and can scale to hundreds millions of documents.

Torrent Search Expert

You just need input keywords and category, then you will find almost everything you want.

Celebrity Magnet

Enter who or what you want images of and Celebrity Magnet will scour the Internet for them. Image results are automatically downloaded. When the Celebrity Search option is enabled it will use extra knowledge of celebrity sites on the Web to narrow the search.

BizInfo SearchKing

This search program includes the company name, telephone number, address, e-mail, Web site, fax number and additional info.

Aqua Deskperience

This software is a search tool. Click on any word or words in any windows program and Aqua opens an intuitive menu to search the most relevant search engines and online shops, dictionaries, spell checks, or translations. Sites are aggregated by category on the same search page to access them with one click. Aqua also let you creates your own menus to search your favorites sites. It comes with an auto-hide window where you can type a search term. You can export captured text and images to other applications. It also includes password recovery.

Veeni Search

This software is a new generation of search engine. All the Web pages Veeni indexes come from the bookmark collections of its users' browsers. You can search many valuable Web pages that real people collect and save carefully as well as submitting your own bookmarks to Veeni and sharing your favorite pages with others.

Aware

This software is a meta-search desktop program that learns what you're looking for and helps you find it. You can rate the results search engines bring back in order to hone in on your topic of interest. The ratings teach Aware what is good and bad so subsequent results are targeted to your topic.

ActivShopper Comparison Shopping Toolbar

This software is a comparison shopping assistance tool that provides you with comparative information whenever you choose a product you desire on your favorite online vendor's Web site by automatically scanning, locating, comparing and presenting links to the lowest online price offers for your chosen product, along with savings information. ActiveShopper is spyware free and will not collect any information on your browsing habits or any other personal information.

PractiSearch Pro

This program performs a Web search of selected text with a hotkey or mouse click.

Groowe Search Toolbar

Search Google, Yahoo, Teoma, MSN, Altavista, Ask Jeeves, Tucows and other search engines directly from the Internet Explorer toolbar with this utility. Groowe Search Toolbar is customized for each search engine. You can also do image search, audio search or video search. Includes a basic popup blocker.

NuSearch Toolbar

This program gives you instant access to the NuSearch search engine from any site on the web. Includes a real time submit-URL feature and automatically updates to receive new features as they are added.

The Job Insider

This software is a job search, organization and networking software. It is a utility for a job seeker who is looking for employment, a job change, is recently laid-off, or is re-entering the work force. The Job Insider simultaneously queries popular job sites. The Job Insider automatically reveals when you have insiders. Insiders are people you have a connection with personally or professionally. Ask your Insider to put your resume in front of the hiring manager and introduce you to them. It is also a job search organizer, it has a repository to store interesting jobs for further study and pursuit. You can keep records and track your progress with each opportunity.

Orbiscope meta search

This software is a meta-search engine and Web site monitoring program. It allows you to add your own search engines and favorite Web sites, and you can include the bookmarks in customized categories. The program supports more than 80 search engines, and it implements all advanced search options of popular search engines.