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Search for Flickr images by color - very cool application

Choose a color (or more) and it loads images with that color scheme from Flickr. Great if you're teaching color and making collages or if you just want color coordinated wallpaper

Visualize search results a whole new way with Google Squared. Export your search results and data to a Google Spreadsheet.

Google Squared takes a category and creates a starter 'square' of information, automatically fetching and organizing facts from across the web. This could be used for vocabulary lists (it includes an image and description and you can add custom columns) or other types of research. Finished squares can be downloaded as .csv or to Google Spreadsheet.><script type="text/javascript">window.gbar={};(function(){function i(a,b,d){var c="on"+b;if(a.addEventListener)a.addEventListener(b,d,false);else if(a.attachEvent)a.attachEvent(c,d);else{var f=a[c];a[c]=function(){var h=f.apply(this,arguments),e=d.apply(this,arguments);return h==undefined?e:e==undefined?h:e&&h}}};var j=window.gbar,k,l;function m(a){var b=window.encodeURIComponent&&(document.forms[0].q||"").value;if(b)a.href=a.href.replace(/([?&])q=[^&]*|$/,function(d,c){return(c||"&")+"q="+encodeURIComponent(b)})}j.qs=m;function n(a,b,d,c,f,h){var e=document.getElementById(a),g=e.style;if(e){g.left=c?"auto":b+"px";g.right=c?b+"px":"auto";g.top=d+"px";g.visibility=l?"hidden":"visible";if(f){g.width=f+"px";g.height=h+"px"}else{n(k,b,d,c,e.offsetWidth,e.off

This has great possibilities for vocabulary lists. :)

With classes, homework, and projects--not to mention your social life--time is truly at a premium for you, so why not latch onto the wide world that Google has to offer?

Spezify is a search tool presenting results from a large number of websites in different visual ways.

We take web search further, away from endless lists of blue text links and towards a more intuitive experience.
We want you to get a good overview of a subject,
find useful information and be inspired with Spezify.

We mix all media types and make no difference
between blogs, videos, microblogs and images.
Everything communicates and helps building the bigger picture.

Spezify is a search tool presenting results from a large number of websites in different visual ways.

We take web search further, away from endless lists of blue text links and towards a more intuitive experience.
We want you to get a good overview of a subject,
find useful information and be inspired with Spezify.

We mix all media types and make no difference
between blogs, videos, microblogs and images.
Everything communicates and helps building the bigger picture.

Scoopler is a real-time search engine. We aggregate and organize content being shared on the internet as it happens, like eye-witness reports of breaking news, photos and videos from big events, and links to the hottest memes of the day. We do this by constantly indexing live updates from services including Twitter, Flickr, Digg, Delicious and more. When you search for a topic on Scoopler, we give you the most relevant results, updated in real-time.

via Mr. Byrne

OneRiot crawls the links people share on Twitter, Digg and other social sharing services, then indexes the content on those pages in seconds. The end result is a search experience that allows users to find the freshest, most socially-relevant content from across the realtime web.
via Mr. Byrne

Twitscoop, search twitter, see what's hot right now

Ask questions and get live answers from your friends and their friends by email or IM

Google search box not only analyze our search string and display perfect results but also provide variety of features such as currency conversions, movie timings, weather forecasts, calculator etc.

Refdesk is a free and family friendly web site that indexes and reviews quality, credible, and current web-based reference resources.

Very useful tool for finding images for student projects. Enter the search term, select Educational for Permitted use, and check "none" for requirements (doesn't even require citation).

Simultaneously searches Google and Twitter.

Computational web based app.

Although it's tempting to think of Wolfram|Alpha as a place to look up facts, that's only part of the story. The thing that truly sets Wolfram|Alpha apart is that it is able to do sophisticated computations for you, both pure computations involving numbers or formulas you enter, and computations applied automatically to data called up from its repositories.

Why does computation matter? Because computation is what turns generic information into specific answers.

To give an amusing example, every school child has at one time or another written a report on the moon, and they probably included the wrong figure for how far the moon is from the earth. Why wrong? Because the distance from the earth to the moon is not constant: it changes by as much as a mile a minute. If you ask Wolfram|Alpha the distance to the moon, it tells you not only the conventionally quoted average distance, but also the actual distance right now, which can at times be well over ten thousand miles off the average. The actual distance is a figure that can be arrived at only by computation based on the moon's known orbital parameters. It's rocket science, if you will.