Saturday, January 29, 2005

Tools You Might Have Missed

Here is a collection of research tools I made, as you might have missed them the first time around. Many of them access the Google API, some access the Yahoo API.

• Actors: What roles does an actor play?
• LinkZoom: Enter your URL to see links zoomed in a slideshow.
• Web of Letters: Spell words using images found on the web. This tool uses the Yahoo API.
• AnyRank: Find the CurseRank, GeekRank, NaughtyRank, or IntellectRank for your URL.
• Neighborsearch: Searches within pages linked from a site.
• Moviebot: See automated movie ratings, like for “Terminator.”
• Google Mini: A small version of Google (IE-only).
• Google Rotated: A rotated version of Google (IE-only).
• The Google Family Tree: See relatives of any famous person.
• Ageshare: In which age group do keywords like “ice cream” appear most often?
• Categorizer: Automatically find a category for your keywords.
• FindForward: Collects many different search tools from this blog.
• Citybrowser: Find out everything about a city.
• The Google Encyclopedia: Data-mining through search engines.
• Auto-linker: Automatically insert links into any text.
• Domain Generator: Get a random domain name.
• Google Years: Show the PageCount for the years 1000-2100.
• Illusionizer: Replaces the images on any page by matching Google Images results.
• Memomarker: Get the “Googlonym" for any URL or text.
• PageBoost: Get only positive reviews for your URL.
• Permutator: Find variations for any URL.
• PersonMap: Which character traits most closely describe you or another person? The nearer an attribute is to the center, the more fitting it is.
• Image Quiz: My stats tell me this is the most popular page here ever.
• Quote Finder: Check if a source is original or taken from somewhere else.
• Random page: Takes random words, googles them, and redirects you to the first page found.
• Random Book: Grabs a random book, CD, DVD, or VHS from Amazon.
• Random Ego-Googler: Find a random person on the web.
• Memecodes: Darwinistic random page genes in a battle for search engine attention.
• Search Grid: Truly two-dimensional search results.
• Stereoscopic ASCII vision: Create one of those images you need to gaze on for a minute to see them in 3D.
• Google Suggests: Find out what options Google Suggest offers.
• Word Popularity Colorizer: Visualize how frequent keywords are relative to the context they appear in.
• Theorybot: Random theories on the click of a button.
• Egobot: Talk to the web through Egobot.
• The Google Couch Potato: Infinitely stream Google Videos.
• Random Yahoo Images: See random image compositions.
• Keyword Variations: Finds site with variants of your keyword.

Tools You Might Have Miss ... by Philipp Lenssen | Comments (6)

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