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Searchwiki or Swicki's purpose is to bridge the gap between searchers and relevant results. As the web grows and evolves, web search needs to grow and evolve too. Searchwiki technology improves on existing general web search by enabling vertical, community site and web searches to be initiated from any website. A searchwiki's strength is in its community appeal and dynamic social search cloud. As such, collaboration between groups of people with similar interests using a Searchwiki will quickly produce much more relevant and tailored results for a common group than a generic search engine would.

invisible web, hidden web, and deep web all refer to the same thing: a massive storehouse of online data that the search engines don't capture. That's because terabytes of information are buried in databases and other research resources. Searchable and accessible online but often ignored by conventional search engines, these resources exist by the thousands. Known in research circles as the invisible, deep, or hidden Web, this buried content is an estimated 500 times larger than the surface Web, which is estimated at over four billion pages. This mass of information represents a potent research resource, no matter what your discipline or interest. Below are some tools to help you mine it. Students and serious researchers may also find our collections of web directories and scholarly and academic research tools and strategies useful.

TrapitTrapit uses artificial intelligence to understand your interests and personalize the web for you.

The Web's most shared links - Keep up with the latest and most interesting stuff out there. Check back daily for new links.

Bottlenose is a smarter way to surf the Stream. It's a new personalization tool that helps the important information find you in social networks like Twitter and Facebook. Use Bottlenose to track your interests, visualize trends, and curate knowledge with your friends. The brainchild of Dominiek ter Heide and Nova Spivack, Bottlenose is currently in alpha. We expect to start closed beta in September. You can register for the closed beta below. Also follow @bottlenoseapp, @novaspivack and @dominiek on Twitter to keep up with our progress.

'Not so long ago a friend came to stay with me for a few months. He was a film buff so every night he'd put on a different movie for us to watch ranging from classic Clint Eastwood to Lost Boys. My friend's tastes were quite varied but the movies he chose were always enjoyable and interesting in some way. When he moved out I really missed having a movie already picked out to watch for the night. That's why I made Lazyday. It helps me find movies to watch ..'

"The Public Domain Review is dedicated to the exploration of curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas - focusing on works now fallen into the public domain, the vast commons of out-of-copyright material that everyone is free to enjoy, share, and build upon without restrictions."