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PUBLIC MARKS from decembre with tags lifehacker & rechercher

October 2008

VideoSurf Finds People Inside Web Videos

Search site and aggregator VideoSurf isn't perfect at what it tries to do, but it can be occasionally, surprisingly good at spotting particular faces inside videos. The indexing engine (currently in beta, of course) sorts through videos from most of the popular Flash-based sites and lets you search to find only videos with, say, Jerry Seinfeld's actual image in them. A few of my searches turned up false positives, but others yielding surprising accuracy, and VideoSurf's interface lets you skip right to the sections featuring your searched man or woman. VideoSurf is a free to use, though you can sign up to save your searches.

July 2008

Convivea - Home of Bit Che - Torrent Search

after i discovered bit che, i never looked back: Bit Che is a simple tool that quickly searches popular bit torrent sites for files. * Super quick searching * Able to preview torrent details * Opens torrents in your favorite downloader

Speckly Searches Multiple BitTorrent Trackers____Multiple popular torrent trackers and returns the results in a simple interface.

The site's design is a direct knock off of Google, but it has a few subtle tweaks for BitTorrent. Like previously mentioned torrent aggregator PizzaTorrent, Speckly also allows you to sort results by file type

Featured Firefox Extension: CyberSearch Integrates Search Results with Your AwesomeBar

The CyberSearch Firefox extension transforms Firefox 3's AwesomeBar into a dynamic search box capable of returning results from popular sites like Wikipedia, Google, and more. The extension is fully customizable

Google: Remove affiliate links from your Google search results

sing Google advanced operators (like, -site:bizrate -site:ebay -site:shopping.com), Give Me Back My Google removes known resellers from your search results - and it really does clean things up.

February 2008

Get eBay and Craigslist Spelling Ideas with TypoBuddy

A variety of searches on both eBay and Craigslist based on all possible spelling combinations and easy for you to dig for great discounts. The simple search will show nearly every misspelling in the alphabet.

September 2007

Bookmarking: Custom Google Search Your Del.icio.us Bookmarks with deliGoo - Lifehacker

Search the contents of every web page you've ever bookmarked with del.icio.us using a dynamically built Google Custom Search engine from deliGoo. Just point your browser to the deliGoo homepage

April 2007

Yahoo launches Alpha search engine

Taking a page from Google's Searchmash experiment, the Yahoo Alpha search engine provides neatly organized results from the web, Flickr, Yahoo Answers and other sources.Specifically, Alpha generates a dynamic search-results page with modules that can expa