Web Search Tools

NeoDownloader is a multi-threaded tool for downloading pictures, audio files, videos and other media from web galleries. With NeoDownloader browsing the Web for pictures is made simple and easy - you drag the URL of a page, drop it on the Drop Basket and this smart utility explores it and downloads all images to your hard drive. You can immediately see everything you download and delete unwanted pictures. You can also set the program to explore the entire web site and retrieve only those images that you want. NeoDownloader provides a number of features to make image retrieval simple and easy, they include image filtering, image preview, a built-in image viewer and the option to set selected picture as Windows wallpaper. You also can keep selected URLs as projects, complete with your settings for the individual sites. This allows you to quickly access them in the future without having to change the program options or re-enter the URL.

Mediaraptor is an audio and video search tool that lets you find, record and download music and video clips from a variety of online radio stations and other sources. You can search for titles by name or artist, find new music by popularity or genre and automatically record streaming media while you surf YouTube, Google Video and similar sites. Other features include integrated media conversion, ID3 tag editing, artwork and lyrics download (if available) and more.

Subject Search Spider (SSSpider) is intelligent Web agent that automates internet searches and returns results ranked by relevancy as well as text extracts and keyword highlights from the pages that are found. It queries multiple search engines for a phrase in any of 36 languages, eliminates dead and duplicate links and consolidates all results into one report. Unlike most other meta search tools, SSSpider does not rely on search engine results alone to determine the most relevant items. It also uses its own search mechanisms to analyze the returned results.

FirstStop WebSearch Business Edition searches the Web quickly and efficiently. It filters, verifies, aggregates and integrates results into a single list from where you can manage and browse the results. The program attempts to obtain only relevant results with the help of automatic validation and duplicates removal. You can select from different search modes, including a simple search, all words, any word or specific phrase as well as custom options. Additional features include a built-in query wizard, a search library, third party engines as well as the ability to import engines from the internet and to export search results to Microsoft Word and Excel.

AimingClick is an integrated web search utility, that allows you to lookup words from any Windows application, using popular online search services like search engines, dictionaries, encyclopedias, merchant sites and more. It is easy to use and effective - to lookup a word, just select it, click a hot key and choose a search site from the appearing popup menu. Your default internet browser will open the search result page of the chosen site with results based on the selected word. AimingClick comes pre-loaded with tons of categorized search engines, and also allows you to add your own configurations.

SSSiter is your personal intelligent Web agent which investigates a given Web site looking for your search phrase and finds information that can be buried in it. SSSiter provides you with the report with a ranked list of page links and text extracts. Using a powerful built-in text search engine, the application finds matches in 36 languages and reports results even if only part of the match is present or spelling varies. Furthermore, SSSiter is able to build maps of Web sites. SSSiter's Site Maps let you get an overview of the site contents and make it easy to navigate through the hierarchy of folders to zoom in on an area of interest. As SSSiter creates a mirror of Web sites on your computer, all subsequent searches and site map exploration can be quickly done in off-line mode.

Tube Explorer enables you to browse and search for videos on several popular video sharing sites, including YouTube, Yahoo!, MetaCafe and Google Video, and view the clips with the built in video player. You can directly access site specific categories, search for videos by keyword and keep a list of your favorite video clips. Tube Explorer can also download selected videos to your hard drive, so you can access them at any time.

ZieTag is a combination of web search tool and personal web information manager. It uses a concept of `Interests`, Search Spaces and HotWords that allow you to collect links from websites or search engine results (Google, MSN, Yahoo, del.icio.us and 2 others) and link them to other `Interest`. In addition, you can automatically monitor your Interests with selected search engines. Basically, the program allows you to search for keywords, save the results, compare them later and automatically update searches with new results from selected search engines. We found the whole concept rather confusing, and not very straightforward nor very efficient, however if you are looking for a tool that helps you with Internet research and managing of search engine results, you may want to give it a try.

ImageGrabDummy is an image file search tool that can either spider any given web site and download all images or start a web search of popular search engines (Google, Altavista...) and find images based on your keyword input. The program allows you to preview the images as they are downloaded in real-time. You can sit back and view them as a slide show as they are saved to your PC. ImageGrabDummy also allows you to specify filters in form of domain names and sub strings as well as image extension to limit file downloads. Downloaded images can be deleted from within the program if they do not meet your criteria.