Search tools
by Sarah Marshall, technology editor, Journalism.co.uk
Search engines
1. WolframAlpha http://www.wolframalpha.com/
2. DuckDuckGo https://duckduckgo.com/
3. Firefox add-ons
4. Spokeo http://www.spokeo.com/
5. PeekYou http://www.peekyou.com/
6. WayBack Machine http://archive.org/web/web.php
7. IP address finder: http://100pulse.com/ip-address-finder.html
Other sites using IP: http://www.dnsstuff.com/
WHOis: http://whois.net/
Bing: http://www.bing.com/
Images
8. Creative Commons http://search.creativecommons.org/
9. Search CC images by colour: http://labs.tineye.com/multicolr
10. TinEye: http://www.tineye.com/
11. Jeffrey’s Exif Viewer http://regex.info/exif.cgi
Productivity
12. Cue https://www.cueup.com
So you think you know Google?
13. Google search by date
14. Google Advanced Search http://www.google.com/advanced_search
15. Google advanced operators https://sites.google.com/site/gwebsearcheducation/advanced-operators
16. Search by colour (see: http://www.researchskills.co.uk/blog/google-images-as-a-research-tool-tutorial-1)
17. Topsy http://topsy.com/
18. FollowerWonk http://followerwonk.com/
19. Storyful MultiSearch (Chrome) https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/storyful-multisearch/hkglibabhninbjmaccpajiakojeacnaf
20. Banjo http://ban.jo/
21. Trendsmap http://trendsmap.com/
22. Tagboard http://tagboard.com/
23. Twitter advanced search https://twitter.com/search-advanced
24. Twitter advanced operators https://support.twitter.com/articles/71577-using-advanced-search
25: Tame http://tame.it/
26. Facebook
27. LinkedIn