We’ve shown you how to create site-specific search engines in Chrome and Firefox, and reader isaaclyman reminds us you can also use that to exclude spammy sites from your search results. More »
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Exclude Spammy Sites from Google with This Custom Search Engine [Search Tip]
Posted on February 10, 2011
Mulve Is a Portable MP3 Search-and-Download Tool [Downloads]
Posted on September 23, 2010
Windows: Mulve is a portable, single-minded, lightning-fast MP3 search-and-download application. It’s not pretty, but it sure does work. More »
Five Best Movie Recommendation Services [Hive Five]
Posted on September 19, 2010
Sometimes the best movies aren’t the ones with enough money for a big promotional tour. Check out these five popular movie recommendation services to find great films tailored to your tastes. More »
OpenMenu Search Finds Restaurants Based on What You Want to Eat [Search Engines]
Posted on September 16, 2010
If you’re ever craving some excellent sopes or the best palak paneer in your city, OpenMenu Search can help you find it with just the name of the dish and your zip code. More »
Sad Steve is a Minimalistic, Ad-Free MP3 Search Engine [Music]
Posted on August 20, 2010
We’ve featured more than one MP3 search engine before, but most nowadays are filled with ads and confusing layouts. Sad Steve is a plain but effective MP3 search engine and player, complete with profiles on new bands to get you started. More »
Hipmunk Is a Fantastic, Surprisingly Usable Flight Search Site [Search Engines]
Posted on August 17, 2010
Web site Hipmunk re-imagines flight search, translating the information you’re most interested in to a user-friendly chart of possible flights. More »
Get Wildcard Suggestions with a Google Autocomplete Trick [Google School]
Posted on July 9, 2010
Google’s autocomplete is a handy tool for both saving time and getting a feel for what people are searching. Reader scantorscantor points out a cool trick for getting a bit more from the autocomplete. More »
Google’s Search Features Page Rounds Up Some of the Best OneBox Tricks in One Place [Google]
Posted on July 9, 2010
Most of you are probably familiar with some of the more common Google OneBox tricks—-searching for "weather cityname" to get local weather or using the search box for basic calculations—but Google has dozens more OneBox tricks up its sleeve. More »
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ClickFiller Finds the Best Possible Amazon Filler to Net You Free Shipping [Amazon]
Posted on April 23, 2010
The problem with most Amazon filler-finders is their total lack of features. Almost universally they simply list items that meet your price requirements. ClickFiller fleshes out your queries with ratings, rankings, and more. More »
Puniz Indexes Free Tunes From the Web [Music]
Posted on March 4, 2010
The web is littered with music—given away for free, embedded in videos, and so on. Puniz indexes publicly accessible music and lets you grab the source tune.
You can search music by the song, artist, or keyword as well as variations and closely related searches—a search for the song "Safety Dance", for example, returns the original song as well as remixes and covers of it.
Click on a song to listen to it online or download it as an FLV, MP4, or 3GP file. The service doesn’t have any playlist functionality, but since you can download the songs directly and then mix them into playlists in your preferred music application this isn’t much of an issue. Puniz is free and requires no registration.
Note: Puniz has a downloadable client. It’s an extremely basic media player with the ability to search Puniz for music. In our tests it crashed frequently and didn’t offer anything that downloading the music directly from Puniz and playing in your own player wouldn’t provide.
Puniz [via KillerStartups]
