A tool designed to search for information on the World Wide Web and FTP servers.
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How to search the internet for terms with special characters
As I learnt from this post, Google has no ability to search for special characters. Let's say I want to search for ss!. Are there any other search engines that can achieve this? Please do not propose ...
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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 ...
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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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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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Google search engine alternatives
We all use Google search engine and it makes life easier. It's the best at the moment but that doesn't mean that there will be no rivals/alternatives to Google. Do you know any search engines which ...
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Search Engine that will return results based on date
Is there a way to use a search engine, preferably Google, that will yield results based on a date?
For example, I would like to search on a term and only return results as if I was searching for 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, ...
