YaCy is a distributed Web Crawler and Web Search Engine without a central server and no censoring possibility. It's a P2P-based index exchange network based on distributed hash tables.

Explicit Web crawls can be done locally or collaboratively, forming a global search and distributed indexing engine for the Web. It also provides a bookmark system, individual Web/servlet page hosting, and a personal file-sharing zone. It is easy to install and has its own database engine.

Features:

• This is your web search engine for freedom of information: search requests are anonymous, independend and uncensored
• No central server, no storage of user behaviour
• Set up your own search portal
• Use YaCy to provide a search function for your own web pages
• Host web pages with the built-in http-server

Auto Web Browser saves a lot of time when you are looking for something on the Internet. No need for numerous clicking, waiting for pages download and closing annoying pop-ups. Just enter the words describing what you want to find.

The Auto Web Browser will consult the search engines from a user defined list, download the pages to your computer, filter and analyze them and then it will automatically surf further, downloading other potentially interesting pages using the links from the meaningful part of the relevant documents. Web crawling reveals many interesting pages, that cannot be found easily if you use search engines only. With good Internet connection hundreds of documents could be processed in minutes. If you have slow Internet, just take a break and wait for a while. After most of the routine job is done by the application, the found pages and an annotated report are available for an instant offline preview.

The application contains Download and Exclude lists of URLs, that can be saved to and loaded from a file and filled by URLs from any file or clipboard. The search engines used by the application are fully customisable and a user can add the specific engines most suitable for the particular search task. The tool can also be used in a simple mode just retrieving and filtering results from search engines. The links to found documents with summaries and thumbnail images of the pages can be placed into a structured report and saved in html format.

Travelaxe is a hotel rate search engine that searches multiple travel websites at that same time for hotel rates and lets you compare the prices from each travel website side by side, highlighting the cheapest prices found for each hotel. The amount you can save for each hotel is also displayed so you can see the savings. When you find the price you want, Travelaxe takes you right to the booking page at the cheapest travel website to complete your reservation. Using Travelaxe can save you both time and money when looking for a hotel for your next trip.

Travelaxe currently supports the following locations (with more being added all the time):

• Las Vegas
• Orlando
• New Orleans
• Lake Tahoe
• Reno
• Daytona Beach
• Ft. Lauderdale

Some of the additional advantages of using Travelaxe include finding better last minute rates, check in or out on any day of the week, no minimum number of nights required, view hotels´ websites and maps. There are also filters that allow you to customize your selections based on price, hotel name or class rating.

A software utility for searching the Internet in order to find files (shareware, mp3, games), fast.

Search Accelerator provides a handy and efficient way to find the fastest way to search the Internet and it´s FREE. No experience needed to use this meta-search utility that runs from the user´s desktop.

termBlaster can help you search with not only Google or Yahoo, but you can use encyclopedias, music sites, gaming sites, file databases or anything else that exists online.

termBlaster is designed to be simple, but also includes some usefull tools and is aware of many search engines right out of the box. You can also be integrate termBlaster with your browser to make your searches as simple as possible.

Search the top search engines simultaneously for a better search. Get all of the best relevant results combined from search engines such as Google, Yahoo!, AltaVista and Lycos with this fast, easy-to-use and free desktop Internet meta search tool. Simply enter what you are looking for and Arrow Search will query all of the top search engines and return the results within seconds. Normally, you just need to enter one or more keywords that describes what you are looking for, however advanced searches are supported including phrase search, Boolean search (AND, OR and NOT) and keywords that must be included/excluded can be specified. Each result comprises of a title, description, URL and the search engine(s) that the URL appears in.

Each search engine uses its own algorithm to determine the results. So by searching all of them at once with Arrow Search, the variety of results is greatly increased. Duplicate results across search engines are automatically removed, making browsing the results easier.

A powerful, user-friendly web browser is built-in to Arrow Search. This allows for convenient viewing of the results and web pages because it saves having to have multiple external browser windows opened. You can also choose to view the web pages in a new window to the results and have the option of reusing the window to minimise the number of windows on your desktop.

Arrow Search automatically updates its Search Engine Database, which eliminates the need to manually download updates and is a great time saver. The Search Engine Database is updated as search engines change to ensure that Arrow Search continues to function correctly.

You can change a variety of settings, including the maximum number of simultaneous connections, download attempts, timeout and the number of results to return. This allows you to tweak the settings to best suit your Internet connection and search needs.

The program comes with a full compiled HTML help file.

You enter the search terms you want to find among today´s news articles and NewsHound heads off to the major search engines and sniffs out the news matching your query.

The Digimarc MediaBridge Reader enables you to access the information you want on the Internet quickly and easily using your Digimarc MediaBridge-approved web camera or your tested scanner.

For example, if you´re reading a magazine and you want more information regarding an advertisement or article, simply show the article to your Digimarc MediaBridge-approved web camera and in seconds you´ll be taken to the correct URL. It´s that easy. No typing of long URLs and it also opens your web browser.

Works with any print media that includes an embedded digital watermark.

System requirements:

• 350MHz Pentium II or greater,
• 32MB of RAM,
• 10MB free disk space,
• Version 4.0 or higher of Internet Explorer or Netscape Communicator
• Digimarc MediaBridge-approved Web camera or TWAIN-supported scanner is set up on your computer
• Display Settings: 800 x 600 pixels screen area and High Color (16 bit) or True Color (24 bit)
• Adobe® Acrobat® Reader v3.0 or later - Get it Here

Domain name checker with 80,000 word dictionary. HTTP and Whois searches allowed (works through firewall). 5 Automated search options including Word List Builder and Sounds Like. Over 200 top and country level domains including .biz and .info.

YahooVideoSearch will give you easy and comfortable access to Yahoo-Video. Search results will be shown in an explorer window like files on your computer. Older results will be cached to give you a larger selection but you can delete them. Doubleclick on a search result opens the video.

Update:

• Some bugs fixed
• Download progressbar added.

Use this application to search for and download files from the web. Analyze whole web sites and locate any file types you are interested in. Then just let the application download these files for you. You can also use this application to search for duplicate files in your system and delete them.

Using multithreaded technology this application can maximize the use of your bandwidth and take full advantage of multi-core CPUs. You can browse web sites using the integrated Internet Explorer while in the same time you are analyzing other sites for content and downloading files.

New Features:

• Pause/resume downloads
• Login supported for sites that require user authentication.

This FREE software, Copernic Agent, finds exactly what you are looking for by simultaneously consulting major search engines and information sources on the Web (more than 90).

With Copernic Agent Basic, your searches will be easier, faster and more efficient than ever. This search agent features categories to target appropriate search engines. It eliminates duplicate results, verifies and removes broken links, highlights keywords in result lists and Web pages, saves pages for offline browsing and finds keywords in results or Web pages with Boolean queries.

Among other things, a quick search bar and the integrated Favorites menu will save you a substantial amount of time. Copernic Agent keeps a detailed search history with custom folders and sub-folders so that you may view and manage results at your convenience and update searches later to find new results effortlessly.

Among its many hot features, this software offers several ways to customize menus, toolbars, search lists, search operations and options. It also features automatic software and engine updating. Copernic Agent offers extensions for Windows and software, especially for Internet Explorer, which integrates a multi-function toolbar that allows you to trace keywords in Web pages using a highlighting function and scrolling buttons and create new searches.

Google Hacks is a compact utility that will allow its users to search google using different google search hacks. Using Google Hacks one can easily do a music search by using a highly optimized and complex search command that can be obtained just by clicking a number of option boxes that can be found in the program´s interface.

Selfseek! lets you thoroughly search the contents of any web site without the need of a commercial search engine. With an easy to use interface, find exactly what you´re looking for quickly without the need to visit each page of an individual site.

Selfseek! uses proprietary search technology that indexes and stores target web sites and delivers query results in real time. How many times have you queried a commercial search engine which may only list the first page of a site, and once you get to the site, you again have to dig even deeper for the information you were seeking? Well, with Selfseek!, you can store an entire web site on your hard drive and search it in seconds!

Stauri Orataur is a simple but effective knowledge bot. Ask it a question and it will supply a straightforward answer. No long lists of web addresses and no tedious secondary search through hundreds of web pages returned by your initial question. Orataur uses Victauri´s Stauri(tm) technology to filter structured sentences from ordinary web pages and return only those that are considered likely to be reasonable answers to your questions.

Utilizing Microsoft Agent technology, Orataur is entertaining for both adults and children to use. Your agent character flies around your PC screen looking for the answer to your question, actually speaking the answer when it finds something potentially useful.

Orataur works best with fact-finding questions like "What is the oldest building in the world?" Orataur´s answers are purposefully brief. Answers are designed to lead to further questions encouraging learning through interaction. This enables knowledge to be accumulated easily in a very natural and intuitive way.

Best of all, Orataur is Freeware, so you may use it without payment. It doesn´t display banner ads, it doesn´t collect information about you, and you don´t have to register with us.

Torrent search widget allows to search over 170 top torrent sites and trackers all at once with advanced options to open sites individually or choose to open them in tabs or frames. The widget should make it easy to find torrents the same way you used to search torrent-finder site with a daily update list of the best torrent sites.

Requires Yahoo Widget Engine.

With this little application you can find anything that you want in Google. It can help you to easily find anything that you want such as mp3s, movies, ebooks, applications, torrents, free hosts and more.

Requires: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0.

Telescope is a web metasearch engine for Windows. In addition to general web search, Telescope can search web directories, image search engines, news headlines, encyclopedias, and freeware. It can access 7 web search engines and 38 search engines in total. Your query is converted into advanced boolean or simple keywords, according to each search engine´s support for boolean operators. Duplicate results are removed. The Verify feature double-checks the relevance of each page, removing broken links in the process, and can additionally generate summaries. There is also a Find in Results feature, and you can bring up previous searches from the history.

Internet Explorer is required, but results can be opened in any web browser. Includes Windows XP visual style support.

CustomizeGoogle is a Firefox extension that enhances Google search results by adding extra information (like links to Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, MSN etc) and removing unwanted information (like ads and spam).

Features:

• Use Google Suggest (suggest words while you´re typing)
• Add links to competitors
• Rewrite links to point straight to the images in Google Images
• Removes image copying restrictions in Google Book Search
• Secure Gmail, switch to https
• Block Google Analytics cookies NEW
• Remove ads
• Anonymize your Google userid
• Add a result counter in search result
• Filter spammy websites from search results
• Add links to WayBack Machine (webpage history)
• Remove click tracking
• Add links from Google to your bookmark manager

Some Torrent/Torrent Tracker Websites open and close the registrations within a short period.

It includes many famous trackers like Demonoid, etc.

This application will check the Torrent/Tracker Sites for Open/Closed Registrations.

This is a major release since it adds more functionalities in the program hence making it standalone program for its purpose on the web.

Requires: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0.

What's New in version 1.24:

• New Icons.
• No freezing in middle of search.
• New Update downloader.
• New symbols added.
• New "Legend" Window to know about symbols. Goto Help - Legend to view.
• Sound support.
• Tracker List update.
• Some new features.
• Some bug fixes.