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A really nice Google movie on how Google Search works. There is a bit of Google propaganda at the end but if you want you can trim this.

From Aaron Lee comes a great article on being more efficient in using Twitter to locate information. It is based around the use of the Firefox Twitter plugin though this is not mandatory.

In today's schools, most research is completed online, and Google is a great resource for combing the web. But at the same time, it's not always easy to find exactly what you want, given that there are usually millions of results - with varying degrees of accuracy. These tricks can help you find the best results, while saving time and making your life easier.

A metasearch site for the web for phone, video & pictures. A private search engine that also provides a proxy service for their results. With Start Page results and its proxy service your IP address isn't recorded, no cookies are stored or fetched by websites you visit.

Currently in beta, Hakia is a search engine that prides itself on bringing credible websites to the searcher. Librarians are able to submit websites they wish to recommend to Hakia.

Visual search engine

You can use Gooru to search for rich collections of multimedia resources, digital textbooks, videos ,games and quizzes created by educators in the Gooru community is free (of cost and ads) and developed by a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose mission is to honor the human right to education.

"The life span of a Google query is less then 1/2 second, and involves quite a few steps before you see the most relevant results. Here's how it all works."

"Yo! Get those papers and projects done faster with yolink. Scan web pages and browse e-books in seconds. yolink finds & organizes your search results for you, then takes them directly to Google Docs or your favorite social networking site, so you can create. Don't waste time. Download yolink today. It's free!"

Thanks marvelous for research and organizing and collation of ideas. Easy to find what you found again.

Search for videos online. Uses text and narration from the video to catalogue

Google has no shortage of services around the web, but those various information resources often seem disconnected. A new Google interface, called WDYL - or "What Do You Love?" - resolves that by bringing together previews of various specialized Google searches in one place.

Google's 'what do you love' search retrieves results organised by medium, eg books, videos, pictures, etc. Some random things here too.

This tool is from the same people that brought us the great computational search engine Wolfram Alpha comes Wolfram Tones. Wolfram Tones uses algorithms, music theory, and sound samples to generate new collections of sounds. Visitors to Wolfram Tones can experiment with sounds and rhythms to make their own sounds. Wolfram Tones allows visitors to choose samples from fifteen different genres of music on which to build their own sounds. Once a genre is selected visitors can then alter the rhythms, instrumentation, and pitch mapping of their sounds. When satisfied with their creations, users can download their sounds or have them sent directly to their cell phones.

Via Robin Good: ROCKZi is a new social news discovery and sharing service launched by the human curated search engine Blekko.The service intelligently leverages the great work done by its own human curators to generate a thematic news board that is an hybrid between the experience of Pinterest and the one of Flipboard.

Pdi, the PD search engine for Victorian ( Australia ) teachers can help you find what you are looking for in the one place. Over 500 courses, programs or services.

The world's most comprehensive dictionary: languages, Medical, Legal, and Financial Dictionaries, Thesaurus, Acronyms and Abbreviations, Idioms, Encyclopedia, a Literature Reference Library, and a Search Engine all in one!

Use drop.io to create drops and privately share your files by web, email, phone, fax, and more. Drops are protected from search engines so you can conveniently share what you want, how you want, with whom you want.