Awareness Watch Newsletter

Awareness Watch Newsletter is a compendium of current information and tools available on the Internet.

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Yahoo to Offer Structured Search

Yahoo will be offering targeted complementary results for people doing keyword searches for products, according to a Computerworld article. The article says Yahoo also plans to beef up options for searching for local venues.
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IXQUICK.COM

IXQUICK.COM is a metasearch engine that provides a wide range of limiters, and allows one to include several terms by using AND within parenthesis. The IXQUICK Search Like a Pro instructions are a great introduction to search strategies that work with subject databases as well as search engines.

IXQUICK boasts about its efforts to ensure user privacy. Unlike most search engines, which display your search terms in the address bar URL, IXQUICK does not show this data.

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SEARCH.COM

SEARCH.COM is a metasearch engine that searches Google, LookSmart, ASK.COM, etc. The reference tab of this product produces results apparently constructed by CNET staff with information from the DMOZ Open Directory Project and Wikipedia.

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