Search Tools

AimingClick
Hotkey-launched system tray tool which executes a browser search for highlighted phrase at selected search engine. Supports 100+ search engines. Also available in IE toolbar version. [Win2000/XP]
http://www.aimingtech.com

AmiPic
Finds and downloads binary files from web sites and Usenet. Includes image viewer and duplicate checker. Supports yEnc, multi-part files, proxies and TOR. Includes Usenet auto-post tool. [Win98/ME/2000/XP/Vista]
http://www.altomsoft.com/

aSearch.INFO
Metasearch with the ability to add new user-defined search engines. User created engines can be downloaded and installed from the aSearch web site. Result links can be opened in external browser. Supports proxies. [XP/Vista]
http://www.asearch.info/

Aware Search
Teachable metasearch. Searches multiple sources, blends and filters results. Results can then be accepted or rejected, allowing the program to refine subsequent searches. Includes IE toolbar. [Win2000/XP/Vista]
http://www.awaresearch.com/

Celebrity Magnet
A multi-threaded image search tool that can focus on images of people. Features adult filter, duplicate detection, viewer, galleries. [Win98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP]
http://www.kelpiesoft.com/cm/

Copernic Agent
Searches 90 search engines in 10 categories. Filter, sort, and search within results. Saves searches and results, imports and exports results. Includes IE toolbar. [Win95/98/ME/2000/NT/XP]
http://www.copernic.com/

DVD Cover Searcher
Search for CD and DVD covers for music, video, XBox, PlayStation, and PC games. Filter by date, region, and source. Queue downloads and uploads. [98/Me/2000/XP/Vista]
http://www.cheapshareware.co.uk

Ergo
Visual search tool. Features desktop search, and metasearch using Google, Live Search, Yahoo, Wikipedia, Flickr, and YouTube. Displays result clusters as lists, tree maps, tag clouds, and networks, and in 3D as spheres or cubes. Result pages are shown in Flip-3D form. Supports tablet PCs. [XP, Vista]
http://www.yourergo.com

eSearch for eBay
Streamlines eBay searches. Saves eBay search criteria, relaunches search and displays any found items in internal list. Selected items can be launched to browser. [Win95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP]
http://www.mazepath.com

eShopper Deluxe
Allows all Web surfers to organize, catalog, and manage Internet stores, products purchased on the Internet, electronic coupons, and auction bids on their PCs. [Win95/98/Me/NT/2000]
http://www.primasoft.com/deluxeprg/eshdx.htm

Extreme Picture Finder
Software for downloading pictures from web galleries. Download up to 10 pictures simultaneously, set picture size limitations, URL filters to cut off advertisement related images, and multilingual interface, and many plug-ins. [Win95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista]
http://www.exisoftware.com/

Ferret32
Desktop information manager and Internet Web search tools. Use simple boolean text or phrase search. For all versions of Windows. [Win2000 Pro/XP Pro]
http://www.bychoice.com

Free Picture Searcher
Software that can search and download free pictures from the Internet, manage and browse search results with internal pictures searcher, downloader and viewer. [Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP]
http://www.fatesoft.com/picture/

FtpWolf
Search, filter and compile the results from 26 FTP engines on the Internet, and deliver the Information to the browser for downloads. [Win95/98/Me/NT/2000]
http://www.trellian.com/fwolf/index.html

Image Typhoon
Internet image search. Supports download count limit, file size, image dimension and aspect ratio filter, safe search, password lock. [2000/XP]
http://www.sillyadvice.co.uk

ImageGrabDummy!
Downloads images from the web by keyword or starting URL, supports keyword and site filter. [Win98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP]
http://www.dummysoftware.com/imagegrabdummy.html

ImageWolf
Locates picture and movie files on the Web. It explores Web rings, looking for files based on a given query. [Win95/98/Me/NT/2000]
http://www.trellian.com/iwolf/index.html

jHound
Intelligent image searching and download browser plugin. Downloads images and creates slideshow.
http://www.markysoft.btinternet.co.uk/

Krojam
Browse YouTube Videos with optional auto-view. Search by keyword, category and author. Multithreaded download, with conversion to other video formats and local playlist creation. [NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista]
http://www.krojam.com/

LanChecker
Software to search any resources on the local area network and chat with people on the local area network. Download, screenshots, and FAQs.
http://www.samecity.com/lan/index.htm

MediaGrab
An overall media finder, that includes MP3 and 21 other types of media, along with media Web site and Usenet search. [Win95/98/Me/NT/2000]
http://www.eastbaytech.com/mediagrab.htm

MetaFind
Meta-search 20 search engines, directly search 5000+ web sites. Run Custom Form and Hybrid searches. Send customized results to all major browsers. Includes scrapbook and script engine. [XP/2000/Vista]
http://www.metafindsoftware.com

Mozzle Pro
Domain name search software with search function, keyword popularity, advanced features and free upgrades. [Win98/ME/NT/2000/XP]
http://www.mozzle.com/

MP3videoraptor
Finds, records and converts .WAV, MP3 and music videos from Social Web Radio. Searches by genre, artist, or title. Saves in a wide variety of audio and video formats for PCs and portable devices. [Win2000/XP/Vista]
http://videoraptor.com

Orbiscope
Official site, search and web monitoring tool. Software overview and trial download. [Win98/Me/2000/NT/XP]
http://www.orbiscope.net/en/

Personal Web Digest
Meta search tool with offline reports. Generates reports with short digests of pages found. Shareware [Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000]
http://personalwebdigest.mobileheroes.com

PicaLoader
Multi-threaded picture search and download. Searches from lists of user-supplied URLs, which can be search engine result pages or specific sites. Filters on picture type and size. Automated account login. [Win98/Me/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista]
http://www.vowsoft.com/

PICgrabber
Scans the internet for images and movies using keywords, and downloads them automatically. Includes an image viewer and media player. [Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000]
http://www.movies-free.net/

ProtoSearch
Simultaneous search of multiple user-selected search engines. Search result web pages displayed in individual tiled windows. 50 engines available, dedicated shopping and MP3 groups. [Win2000/XP]
http://npccenterprises.com/

Search Engine Explorer
Simultaneous search of up to 20 search engines in user-definable groups chosen from 50 pre-installed, or additional user added engines. Remembers search results and web sites visited. Supports text search within results. [Win98/XP/Vista]
http://www.searchengineexplorer.com

Star Search
Group web search of user-definable groups drawn from over 100 search engines and searchable resources. Search result pages displayed in tabs in internal browser. Supports use-added search engines, Pascal scripting.
http://www.searchevolution.com

Subject Search Spider
MetaSearch using 12 web, 8 news, and 4 blog search engines. Spiders search result sites and retrieves additional relevant text. Supports multiple languages, user-added search engines, saves results. [Win98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista]
http://www.kryltech.com/

Tifny
Mutithreaded newsgroup search and download. Supports yEnc, filters by author, file type, keywords, and cross-post. Features header preview, thumbnails, built-in picture view, music and video players. [Win95/98/2000/ME/NT/XP]
http://www.tifny2.com/

Visual Web Spider
Performs multithreaded crawl from list of initial URLs, extracts page text, and saves content. Initial URLs can be specific web sites or search result pages. Export page content to text, CSV, HTML, Access, MySQL. [Win95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP]
http://www.newprosoft.com/web_spider.htm

Web Photo Search
Application that searches for and downloads images from the Internet. The user can view results and a large preview in the same window. [Win98/NT/Me/2000/XP]
http://www.web-photo-search.com/

WebSeeker
Queries over a 100 search engines simultaneously, eliminates duplicates and dead links, and monitors web pages for any changes. [Win95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP]
http://www.bluesquirrel.com/products/seeker/webseeker.html