A tool designed to search for information on the World Wide Web and FTP servers.
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How to Google search for void*
I was trying to search for
void*
but instead of results I get
To continue, please type the characters below:
and a CAPTCHA with an explanation saying
About this page
Our systems have ...
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What are DuckDuckGo goodies?
I just discovered these cool looking 'goodies' on DuckDuckGo, but I have no idea how to use them , and what they are. Can someone enlighten me there?
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How to search for words with the same suffix on Google? [duplicate]
I thought it was possible by using the asterisk but that returns no result.
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box.com shared folder custom search
I have a box.com account I use for some files I want to distribute to my friends, but as far as I know, there is no search functionality for shared folders.
Is there a way to make a google custom ...
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Search a single website using regular expressions?
Is there a way to search a single web-domain using regular expressions? I've been mirroring sites with WinHTTrack and then using dtDesktopSearch but it's an incredibly inefficient process and I was ...
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Finding a video using a clip from the video
Is there any solution for finding whole of a video using some of its snapshot or a clip of it?
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Search engine that offers a “random webpage” link?
Is there a search engine that provides a link which redirects to a random webpage (in any language!) that is indexed by that search engine?
I'm not interested in any 3rd party services; the search ...
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How to find the webpages linking to a pdf?
I found an interesting PDF with my last Google research, via a direct link to it ( Google result was like "http://example.com/somefolder/interesting.pdf").
I would like to put the pdf in context, ...
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Where can I search the web for sites that are hotlinking JavaScript from a particular domain?
Similar to Google's inanchor: operator, I'm looking for a search engine that will let me search for sites that are using a particular JavaScript.
For instance I would like to search to compare the ...
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How can I search with wildcard on Google Search?
I want to search URLs like this:
"blablabla.com/a1234568"
"blablabla.com/a8564654"
"blablabla.com/a5648979"
So as you can see I want to make a search like this blablabla.com/a*
But I can't do ...
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How to search escape words in Google or other engines?
Maybe this question is a bit silly, however I always fail to get the right result when I search Google for some particular words like $@( in bash) and other escape words. For instance, when I use bash ...
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Possible to specify multiple sites to search using bing?
If I want to search the site: mysite.com on bing I can type:
my search terms site:mysite.com
Is there anyway to specify multiple sites to search? I've tried:
my search terms ...
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How to retrieve all news (all topic) published in Google News in temporal interval
I would to obtain, from Google news "ALL the news that were published in a specified temporal interval" and then navigate it. I'm not able to get this from web site, does anyone suggest me a way to ...
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Is it possible to force order of search terms to give to a search engine (as in A to B not B to A)
Is it possible to force order of search terms to give to a search engine (as in A to B not B to A)?
E.g. as in if I wanted MP3 to MP4 converter NOT MP4 to MP3 converter, Manchester to Liverpool, not ...
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How to search for '{search text}' on Google [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to search the internet for terms with special characters
I have been trying to do a literal search in Google for text exactly like:
{example}
I have tried all ...
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Prevent many results from same domain in Google search
A few months ago Google changed their default behavior so that there is no limit to the number of results listed from the same domain. Previously, it would list one or two results and provide a link ...
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Googling for a string not in another
Is there a way to search Google for a Web page that has a specific word even not as part of a specific phrase?
For example: Let's say I want to search for license, and my search turns up many pages ...
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Is it possible to search for a specific HTML tag within a site using a search engine?
I want to search a single website for pages that do or do not have a canonical URL specified (<link rel='canonical' href='http://www.site.com/pageCannonicalUrl.htm' />). Is it possible to do ...
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Is there a service like skyscanner for trains? One which includes all train companies' timetables. [closed]
Is there a service like skyscanner for trains?
I mean a comprehensive web service including all train companies' timetables so I'm sure I'm not ignoring any train connection.
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Is there a tool where you give a list of things and it returns related words?
Is there some kind of tool you can enter simple queries and it will use AI to process it and provide you an answer relating your query to it's possible meanings? For example:
relate: animal, fast, ...
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How to search within a specific area in Google Search
Is there any way to search for some information on sites belonging to a particular area without specifying the area name as a keyword in the search string?
or
Is there any way to search for some ...
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522 views
How do I search the Web for pages posted before a certain date? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Date criteria for Google search
How to do a Google search for webpages last updated within 2 years?
I'm looking for information on a certain topic, but there's been an ...
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How to get rid of Google's language detection permanently? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I access google.com outside the US?
Using Chrome 15 on Windows (all tho' I've learned it doesn't matter what browser you use), when using a Google product it ...
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Google search based engine with clustered results
Is there a search engine based on Google Search that clusters search results by subject, and shows them e.g. as circles on a 2D graph, so:
results with similar subjects have a smaller distance ...
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How to you use a * in a Google search question? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I search for a keyword with special characters in Google Search?
I wanted to search for the phrase asterisk44asterisk (with the asterisk replaced by * of ...
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Google Search with Regular Expressions [duplicate]
Is it possible to use regular expressions or very simple regular expressions in google search?
Like search the term "goog?e", where the ? indicates a character or a number.
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How does Google keep web history?
Say I search for something in Google and click on a few results. After some time, if I again search for same thing, the search results show the earlier clicked links with different colours and ...
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How to customize URL search conditions on Google
I want to be able to tell Google
if [some string] is in the URL, don't include as a search result
For example:
If I want to do a search for "popcorn", the first thing that comes up as a result ...
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Trending IT related search engine keywords
I tried Google Trends and Insights but it doesn't specially give IT (Information Technology) based trending keywords.
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Is there an advantage to using google.com rather than google.com.au as my search engine in Chrome?
I'm an Australian living in Thailand. I use Google Chrome as my primary web browser. Out-of-the-box, Chrome's combined address bar/search box will return results from google.co.th. That's fine but not ...
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Tor search engine [closed]
I found in the internet and in Tor many Tor sites directories. The problem with those directories is that many of the sites listed are down. Is there any search engine or live directory which shows ...
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Chrome address bar Google search engine
I am using google chrome as a browser and fire up empty tags and type directly to the address the search query. The problem that raises is despite the fact that I had defined google.com as a default ...
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How to turn off Google's page preview in search?
How to turn off scripts in Google Search, in particular the page preview?
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Can one use any search engine in order to find a set of keywords on a site (not page)?
The problem I'm trying to solve is that I'd like to buy a set of products online (FYI: Topeak F25, F66, F55, iPhone DryBag, and ProPack Small).
For convenience, and to save on shipping costs, I'd ...
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Is there a search engine to find monitors based on the following criteria?
I would like to search for computer displays by filtering with the following criteria :
It's currently available to buy.
Its panel technology is anything but a TN (*VA, *IPS).
Its connections ...
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How to search within a Limited number of domains with google?
Is there a feature in google search(advance search etc) or in other google products where you can limit your searches to only a specific set of sites. I tried searchterm site:xyz.com , abc.com but ...
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Why do the “privacy versions” of Google search (i.e. Scroogle, StartingPage) not return exactly the same results?
There are at least a couple of "don't track me" search sites which get their search results from Google. (I'm thinking of Scroogle.org and StartingPage.com). [Note: I don't know exactly how ...
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How to search through IRC channel logs
Is there a service that allows me to search through the logs of IRC channels?
To be clear, I'm not interested in finding a particular channel. What I would like is an online/web-based search engine ...
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Teaching people to use search engines
There are numerous people who, even in this day and age, lack the ability to formulate search engine queries. Is there a known method for teaching people this skill? Is there a tutorial available on ...
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Can I exclude spam domains from my search results?
Sometimes when I search for something, there are plenty of links to sites with no content (those who only have the premade templates which the search terms), spammers, and leechers (as in copying ...
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Is there a way to search on LifeHacker?
So, this may certainly not be the right forum. But it's the closest I could find of all available in this family of sites to ask the question. Please educate me if this isn't the right location.
Am I ...
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Search Engine that Doesn't Ignore Punctuation? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to search the internet for terms with special characters
Is there a search engine that will not ignore punctuation marks (like $ % & ! @ #...)? I want to search ...
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Filter domains from google search without -site:example.com?
Is there a way I can block sites from my google searches? For instance, if I have a tech question often one of the first results that comes up will be to a site that wastes my time with wanting me to ...
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Image search server which finds all the same pages around the Internet [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Reverse image search engine
I have a picture, locally or with a URL. I would like to find all (well all known) places for its copies, maybe slightly modified, cropped or ...
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Bing - Is there a NCR site for it?
Just like Google having an NCR (No Country Redirect) URL, does Bing have one?
Basically, I am looking for a site URL which will take me to the US - English site?
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What do these Google search operators/attributes mean?
In the Google Chrome search engines, there is the default engine URL defined as: ...
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How to search for links on one web site to another
Is there a way, using Google search or another major search engine, to search for all links to a particular web site on a different web site. For example, could I search for all links to Wikipedia on ...
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Google top 100 words searched for
Is there any way to see the list of top words searched for on Google? I'm looking for a range of somewhere like 100-500 words.
The problem with Google Hot Trends/Searches and Google Zeitgeist is that ...
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Is there a Peanuts database/search engine?
Is there any database or search engine for the comic strip Peanuts? I'd like to be able to search the text of the strip, if possible.
I know such things exist for e.g. Dilbert and Calvin and Hobbes, ...
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Font Search App [closed]
I read about an webapp that you can point at an image that contains text and it will tell you what font was used to create it.
Unfortunately I can't remember what it was called ... does anyone have a ...
