Often, when we browse the web for research purposes, we have to search the same keyword on multiple search engines. Typing the search term over and over again in different search engines can be a difficult and time consuming task. Search Assistant, a Chrome extension, solves this problem and lets you search multiple search engines for the same keyword with only a click or two. The extension adds a tiny button in the address bar, which, when clicked, displays a pop-up, with a list of search engines, such as Google, Bing, Yahoo, Amazon, eBay and YouTube. The extension is customizable, so you can delete the default search engines and add others according to your preference.

Once you’ve entered a search term, click the button in the address bar and select a search engine. Search results will automatically be displayed in that respective search engine. This is how simple it is.

The Search Assistant Options allows you to add new search engines and delete existing ones. Simply enter the name of the search engine, enter the keyword and add a URL for the service. Users should note that the search words should be replaced with ‘%s’. You can also enable the open search results in new foreground tab option.

Search Assistant allows you to quickly click through results from different services without having to individually open each search engine. Add your favorite search engines to the pop-up, and conveniently search the web.

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Whether you’re a businessperson, a student or a casual web user, chances are that you often find yourself swarmed by plenty of emails, contacts, online documents, calendar events, social activities, and so on. Surely, with the consistent flow of information from so many various sources, it becomes a tad difficult to recall and pluck something at the time of need. CloudMagic is a cross-platform online search tool for Gmail, Google App accounts, Google Docs, Events and Contacts and Twitter that claims to fetch you required content from multiple accounts in just a few seconds through its handy web extension for desktop browsers as well as the recently introduced smartphone client for Android and iPhone. Details to follow.

Through its simply designed UI, real-time search suggestions, one-tap content filtration, voice search support and a handy little homescreen widget, the official Android client of CloudMagic easily qualifies as one of the most convenient personal content searching tools out there. Searched content can be previewed from within the app, and/or opened via a compatible app.

Only registered users have access to the app’s content. Signing up for a new account is simple and free. All you need to do is hit the Sign up button on the app’s welcome screen, feed in your email address and password, and you’re good to go.

If you’re using the service for the first time, you’ll need to associate a few (or all) supported cloud service accounts of yours with the app. For this, select a required service from the Add Service screen, or Menu > Settings > Add a new service from the app’s homescreen, and provide your account info. The Manage services option on the settings screen can be availed to select/deselect various supported services from the accounts that you’ve added to the CloudMagic list. For instance, you may opt to include your Google Calendar events within the app’s search criteria, but exclude scanning mail from your Google account.

Once all accounts have been set up, the app is ready to help you with finding virtually anything that exists on the records list any of the included/supported services. To help you input your query via text or voice, the app’s homescreen provides you with a search bar that carries a text input field and voice input. Search results are displayed on a real-time (as-you-type) basis. To filter search results, hit the CloudMagic icon in the top-left corner of the screen, and set the search results screen to display only Mails, Events, Docs, Contacts or content from Twitter.

As mentioned earlier, the app also sports a widget, which not only lets you input vocal and textual queries right from the homescreen, but also displays a list of your most recent searches.

Although Facebook is not currently listed among the supported services, the developer promises that it will be added soon. It would be nice to see support for LinkedIn and mailing services other than Gmail added to the app as well.

The official demo video below portrays the efficiency of the app’s search function quite nicely.

CloudMagic is available in the Android Market and iTunes App Store for free. Download links to both variants of the app are provided below.

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Nuance, the company behind Dragon Dictation, Dragon For Email, FlexT9, Dragon Search and now, Swype and Vlingo, has released its voice-based search assistant, Dragon Go!, to the Android Market. After the successful launch of the app in the iTunes App Store, Nuance announced at the recent CES 2012 that it would be bringing its latest brainchild to Android users as well. Arguably among one of the most elegantly designed, feature-rich and simple-to-use voice search apps in the Android Market, Dragon Go! vows to help you with searching for virtually anything. Whether you wish to get the latest weather forecast for your hometown from multiple weather services, want to post a quick update to your Facebook Wall, check your Twitter timeline, need the map of Venice, listen to Madonna on Pandora, YouTube or Last.fm, search for a movie’s DVD on Amazon or eBay, locate a McDonald’s outlet in your vicinity, or conduct your routine searches on Google, Ask.com, Bing or Yahoo!, the app has you covered. Read on past the jump for a detailed overview of the app.

When launched for the very first time, the app guides you through its various controls through a brief tutorial

There are a variety of ways in which you can use Dragon Go! to search for required information. You can either feed in your query via vocal commands or by simply typing it in. The app fetches relevant content and arranges content from different sources under separate tabs, with the most relevant displayed under the tab in the center, effectively forming a carousel of sources. Simply swipe across the carousel to switch between sources.

For instance, if your query is based around the keyword ‘Taj Mahal’, not only can you explore the beautiful pictures of the place via Google Images, but also check out its Wikipedia page or precise location on Google Maps by simply swiping to the relevant tab on the carousel. The carousel, called Dragon CarouselTM, is smart enough to include only the most relevant sources within the carousel, that is, you won’t find a YouTube icon on the carousel when, say, you’re looking to call your mom.

In essence, Dragon Go! can be termed as an enhanced version of voice-controlled virtual assistant Vlingo. However, as compared to said app, not only does Dragon Go! race ahead in terms of aesthetics, but functionality as well. Also, the speech recognition engine used in Dragon Go! easily surpasses, in terms of precision and accuracy, those used by any other similar app that we’ve come across so far.

During our test-run of the app, the search function worked without fail. The app itself is as stable as they come. Other apps from the genre usually find it hard to effectively conduct more than a couple of searches or operations before suffering a force close.

From the app’s settings screen (Menu > Help & Settings), you can learn about all the different voice commands that Dragon Go! can understand and all the websites, apps, online sharing services, and search engines that it supports. Also from this screen, you can enable/disable the Recording notification option (the vibration at the start and end of recording a new command). In addition, you can also disable the Detect end-of-speech option in case you wish to manually end voice commands by pressing the Record button.

Having tested Dragon Go! successfully (on HTC Desire Z and Google Galaxy Nexus), we can safely conclude that as compared to some of the other apps from its genre, including Google’s very own Voice Search, and virtual assistants such as Iris and others, this particular app’s voice search is more likely to impress you.

It’s a pity that Dragon Go! currently does not sport a homescreen widget as of now. Furthermore, the app only allows calling contacts via voice commands, and cannot be used to send text messages – a feat ably performed by Sonalight Text By Voice and Iris.

Still, given it’s the app’s first release, one can expect any existing voids to be filled with future updates.

Dragon Go! is available in the Android Market for free. Grab the app via the Market link or QR code provided below.

Download Nuance Dragon Go! for Android

Download Nuance Dragon Go! for iPhone, iPad & iPod touch

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If you’ve used FilesTube, then you know being able to search multiple sites at once can make your life infinitely easier. FilesTube searches the popular file hosting sites like Megaupload, FileServe, FileSonic etc. FilesHut is a similar web service that crawls over 50 websites in its search, including the same popular ones that FilesTube does. You can even filter search results by format. Please note that FilesHut is a search engine, so it will not help you bypass pay walls or speed up downloads. The make or break with this service lies in how relevant the search results are to your query, and that it boasts crawling more services.

The layout of the service is fairly simple; enter a query – whatever it is you want to search for – in the search bar. If you’re not particular about the format, hit search. By default, the search result will show files of all formats. To restrict the search to a particular file format, click All next to the search bar, and select the file format from the dropdown menu.

In addition to searching files, the site tells you what searches are trending, lets you revisit recent searches that you’ve done on the site, and see files that have just been added to the websites it indexes. The site does not guarantee that you won’t come across inappropriate content; it indexes file hosting sites and it is entirely possible that some adult content is uploaded with the same name as Disney’s latest animated movie, so practice caution when you download a file.

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Ask.com – one of the most popular Question and Answer (Q&A) based web services/ search engines has just launched its official client for Android users, bringing with it a bunch of handy features that had so far been enjoyed by iOS users only. Using Ask.com app, you can easily post questions based on any preferred topic and get answers from people (and experts) from all around the world. You can also browse and answer listed questions, get answers for personal questions, receive push notifications for questions/ answers and post queries about local places near you. All this and more, right on your Android device absolutely free of cost!

Exploring the app, we find a neat and compact interface with a home screen containing four tabs – Answer, Ask, My Q&A and My Profile. Each tab, as its name suggests, is there to cater the online queries of users. The Answer tab provides you a chance to become a ‘guru’ and answer questions flowing in from users all over the world. You can also view answers pertaining to a specific question that are posted by other users. Questions can be filtered By Interest (you have the option of adding your areas of expertise) as well as By Connection (Follow people from their profile).

The Ask tab, on the other hand, lets you post questions of your own. You can type in a simple question or post a personal query to people you know, add additional details/keywords and get answers on your device. The Ask feature supports speech recognition for user convenience.

From the My Q&A tab, you can check out all the questions and answers that you’ve posted along with viewing received answers. My Profile tab lets you manage your profile, select your particular areas of interest and also displays detailed stats for all your Q&A activities on Ask.com.

On the customization front, you can enable/disable notifications upon receiving new questions and/or new answers. You may also like to specify how frequently you would answer the questions along with your availability (in terms of time and date) on Ask.com.

To cut it short, if you’re confounded by some unanswered questions or if you’ve got the ‘magic’ solution to worldwide issues, grab your copy of Ask.com client from the Android Market and start sharing your knowledge with the world. Ask.com is compatible with Android OS 2.2 or higher. You can download the app from the Market link or QR code provided below.

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If you’ve just started using Firefox it’s likely you’re still poking around its options and customizing it as per your preference. In the process you might have noticed that unlike Chrome or Internet Explorer, Firefox allows you to tweak just about anything from about:config.While the option opens a whole new world of customization for those who know what to do, the average user might be fairly clueless making it very difficult to tweak something simple like the default search engine in the URL bar. If like many people, you use only the URL bar to both search the web and enter web addresses, you might want to set the search engine as per your own preference and Choose Search Engine is a Firefox extension that let’s you do that easily.

Once installed, go to the extension’s options and choose one of the listed search engines or enter a custom URL. The extension requires no restart and the changes are implemented immediately after you click OK. The extension modifies the keyword.URL preference in about:config and replaces it with whichever search engine you choose or the URL you enter.

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Some of us today have become so addicted to search engines that sometimes the impulse is there to look for your lost pair of socks on Google! Due to this essential role of search engines, many web browsers come integrated with search engines. You simply have to go to your browser’s address bar and key in any word you want to search. This is a time-efficient tool as you don’t have to go all the way to the search engine’s website and search from there. Being a pretty slick OS, Windows Phone 7 uses Internet Explorer as its default web browser and Bing search comes integrated with it. But if you are more of a Google or Yahoo fan, you can change this setting using a little registry tweaking.

Disclaimer: Please follow this guide at your own risk. AddictiveTips will not be liable if your device gets damaged or bricked during the process.

Requirements:

1. You will need to have a registry editor. TouchXplorer will do fine. For download and details read our guide on registry editors.
2. For registry access you will need to have a developer unlocked or jailbroken device. Here’s how you can jailbreak your WP7.

Instructions:

1. Run the registry editor.
2. In the path field, enter the following
   HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes
3. This will lead you to a value named Default Scope. Remove Bing from there and put in the name of the search engine of your choice. This is basically the tag which will be used for searches.
4. For Yahoo, in the path field, enter
   [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes\Yahoo]
   and then change the displayed URL to
   “URL”=http://de.search.yahoo.com/search?p={searchTerms}
5. To choose Google as your search Engine, use this
   [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes\Google]
   and set the URL to
   “URL”=http://www.google.com/m?hl=en&gl=us&client=ms-hms-tmobile-us&q={searchTerms}

So in this manner, using your registry values, you can change the default search engine of Internet explorer in your WP7 phone.

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The inevitable has happened; there is now a search engine for Google+ profiles. This isn’t some some crackpot wildcard project but actually a smart, well designed and well thought out one; Find People On Plus lets you search Google+ profiles based on Name, Profession, Location, Followers, Following, Gender, Relationship status and more. Google+ to this point might just be showing people who are in your network but this service will help you find interesting people to follow, maybe hire your next great employee or perhaps just find someone to carpool with.

Find People On Plus acts as both a search engine and as the Yellow Pages for Google+ profiles. All available filters are located in a panel on the left, simply click the one you want to apply and results will be filtered accordingly. You can search for people by name from the search bar or browse them by name using the People Directory link in the top right.

The usefulness of this service is whatever you make of it; we’ve all done a people search at one point or the other in our lives, Google+ is just another place to search for them.

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What do you do when you need to find an app for something? Searching app stores is only effective if the apps are tagged right and the descriptions are written well. If you use Google, it’s likely you’ll get more reviews than actual apps themselves. Quixey is a search engine for finding apps for any platform. You can filter out paid apps and view only free ones. Quixey searches for apps for different operating systems (Mac, Windows), mobile platforms (Android, Blackberry, Windows Phone 7, and iPhone) and browsers (Chrome, Firefox, IE).

Quixey works like any other search engine, tell it what you need and it finds it for you only it focuses on apps. In addition to giving app descriptions, the search engine also gives you snippets collected from different sources. You can filter the results for the platform you need and choose to view only paid or free apps. Each result is accompanied by small icons to identify which platform(s) the app is for. Every app has its own page where video results and Twitter mentions are listed along with the link for downloading the app.

Drawbacks of the search engine are that the results are not listed according to app popularity, no. of users or from highest to lowest price.

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Amazanian is a free search engine that searches Amazon.com for different products and only show those that are eligible for free shipping. In short, the whole search engine is based on searching Amazon products that ship for free. On the main page, apart from the search bar, you will find top 10 best selling Books and DVDs that ship for free.

On the left sidebar you can browse for top selling products by different categories. You have options to search for only Prime items or not. According to Amazon,

Amazon Prime is Amazon.com’s special membership program that provides FREE two-day shipping and $3.99 overnight shipping for any items sold by Amazon.com. There are no minimum order requirements and you can share your benefits with up to four additional people in your household.

Just search for any item and it will show you the results instantly. Choose your product and it will take you to Amazon website from where you can purchase it. Since it is difficult to find items that come with free shipping on Amazon.com, you can use this search engine instead.

Features:

• No registration is required
• Clean design and simple-to-use
• Ability to filter results by title, publisher, or author

Enjoy!

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PDFGeni is a search engine for searching both PDF books and documents easily. Just type the keyword and you will get the results instantly. It is powered by Google and is free. Below the search bar you will find Hot Searches, where all latest search terms are listed by Country.

Search results are displayed in a simple list order, clicking any result will open the PDF file instantly.

Features:

• Preview Document before opening
• No Registration required
• Search for articles, data sheet and other types of files in PDF format

PDFDatabase is another similar PDF Search Engine. Enjoy!

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MyLastSearch is a free portable tool that scans the cache and history of your web browsers and displays all the search queries you made with popular search engines in a list format. The results are displayed in the following columns: Search Text, Search Engine, Search Time, Web Browser, Number of  hits, and the search URL. This tool can come handy if you want to keep a watch on your family, also if you want to remember the last search you made.

Since it is a portable app and needs no installation, just run the executable file and it will detect all search queries within seconds and display them in a simple-to-use window.

I used Firefox’s build-in search bar to search on Google and as you can see from the screenshot above, all search queries that I typed came out to be correct.

Go to Advanced Search and select the web browsers which you want to load the search list from.

It is dead simple to use and no advanced knowledge is required to run it. Enjoy!

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The default search that comes with Windows is full of crap, yes you heard it right. It never shows what you are looking for and the results are not reliable. This is where 3rd party search engines comes in, one such engine is File Searcher. What makes it unique is it’s ability to search in multiple locations for any file type, content, or date created and is both quick and easy to use.

Just run the program and enter the location that you want to search, you can enter multiple locations.

Now you can search by File Types, Date and Size, Contents, or all three by going to their respective tabs. Below you can see the screenshot of one such tab: Date and Size, since I wanted to search for new files in the last 15 days.

Here are some of it’s features:

• Search Multiple locations at once
• Filter file by name/extenstion using simple text or regular expressions
• Filter file creation/access/modify dates within date range
• Search files for multiple content criteria
• Search for simple text or regular expressions
• Support for popular formats including PDF, Office, HTML, RTF, TXT, and many more
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• All results are sortable
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Now you can search and download from more than 7 million pdf / doc files and growing daily. PDF Database is a new search engine which uses a unique algorithm to search for pdf and doc files from all over the web quickly and efficiently. It just got launched and is open to changes, so don’t jump to conclusions yet.

The response time is pretty fast, a quick search on any term will show a good number of results. Below the document’s name in search results you can see the original link to the file and a Download link, it also displays the recent 10 searches in similar category.

You will find the recent 200 searches on the main page of the website which can sometimes seem annoying, but if you don’t know what to search for then it can be a great place to start.

Here is an example of the search result page when searched for Linux.

If you are looking for a pdf or doc file, you can try searching here. There is a big possibility that you may find the document that you have been looking for. Enjoy!

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