Qube - abbreviated as q3, is a revolutionary concept in browsing and searching the internet. The developers call it a "Next generation, websearch client for instant, single-click access to information from the collective index of traditional search engines".

The important thing is that it's easy to use despite the confusing description. It basically means that instead of cutting and pasting search terms into Google, you can use desktop shortcuts to perform the task quicker. The reason is Qube is based on an ITCE (Intelligent Text Capturing Engine) that extracts ASCII text from websites, documents, e-mails, menus, windows, applications and almost anything else you can think of. When you run a search, the results appear in the left window pane and are pretty much the same as you'd receive in Google.

The problem however is the updater which drags down your system and hangs up the program. You have to remember though that it's still very much a work in progress. It's also bundled with ads which are not too annoying at first but could be after prolonged use.

This is a really unique project that has a lot of potential. It's clear that the ultimate aim is to increase productivity by making browsers a thing of the past although that won't happen based on the current state of the product.

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Google is the most popular search engine in the world. People love it and use it all around the globe because it's simple, fast and always delivers good results. But what if you could refine those results to match even more personal criteria?

Google Hacks enables you to filter Google search by selecting exactly what you're looking for: applications, videos, books, song lyrics, torrents and other file types and applications.

Simply check the appropriate filter and the desired format if applicable, and results will open up in your default browser. This application simply takes advantage of Google's modifiers so that you don't have to type them by yourself, but it would be even better if you could launch the search by pressing "Enter" instead of having to click on the program's button (yes, I'm a keyboard junkie!).

Find exactly the kind of files you're looking for on Google.

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WebFerret provides a handy and efficient way to find information on the Web. It's fast, easy to use, and free. Enter your search words and choose from four options: all keywords, any keyword, exact phrase, or Boolean expression. WebFerret will use your Internet connection to query popular search engines and will return an unlimited number of hits. You can validate selected results, save your search history, and filter out pornography and foul language.

Advanced features let you set the closeness of the match, and remove duplicates. The results are returned as a sortable list. Just double-click on a link to bring up your browser and launch the page.The latest version has a new toolbar that integrates seamlessly with Internet Explorer and will also search news sources by simply entering "News: " in the search box.

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JiveQ provides instant web answers and information from the web's best information providers whether you're in an application or in a browser.

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termBlaster can help you search with not just web search engines, but you can use encyclopedias, translators, search for music, games, files or anything else that exists online. It's simple, but has some useful tools and includes more than one hundred search services: search engines, image search tools, online dictionaries, enciclopaedies, etc. Also you can edit the list of available resources to add your own favorite search services.

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If you've ever searched the Web, you know that sifting through hundreds or thousands of search results from many engines (such as web pages, blogs, groups, books, papers, etc.) can be very time consuming.

iMetaSearch gathers results from these engines, does sophisticated analysis on them, and displays them in a "one-click" interface so you can find "hidden nuggets" quickly. It greatly speeds up the process of gathering and sorting through search results.

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Surf Sense listens to the words you type into Windows, and stores the most recent in a buffer. The words in the buffer can then be used as search terms for a query on the internet, by means of the Surf Sense popup. Surf Sense knows about the most common search engines, and allows you to do word or image searches. Its custom engine feature allows you to tailor Surf Sense to your specific needs.

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Mercurius is an internet search application for Windows that will help you to narrow down web searches by suggesting keywords and phrases you could use. If you have ever been daunted by the number of results returned by search engines, or found it difficult to think of the keywords to use to find something, then why not try Mercurius?

With Mercurius, you perform a preliminary search using your 'best guess' keywords, and then use any keywords suggested by Mercurius to make the search more specific. You can iterate the search as many times as necessary, using more specific keywords each time, narrowing it down until you find what you want.

For example, imagine doing a search on "William Shakespeare", which returns over a million results. From Mercurius' list of suggested keywords, you select "Ben Jonson" and "quote", and repeat the search. By thus narrowing your search to just a few hundred results, you quickly find Jonson's famous quote about Shakespeare being "not of an age, but for all time".

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Names and their meanings, online dictionary, current science articles, biology articles, health fitness articles — all of these you can find in WikiPedia, the free online encyclopedia. If you regularly read articles from WikiPedia, WikiReader is just the ticket.

WikiReader allows you to open WikiPedia articles from any Windows application. Just select the name of the relevant article using the mouse or keyboard, press the corresponding key combination and the text of the article is opened in a small window.

The icon of the program is easily located in the taskbar so you can click it at any moment. It is possible to manually open a specific article in the window of the program just by entering its name in the input field.

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Sharemaster is an automated and fully customizable Internet search bot, Web and Usenet mass downloader equipped with conventional image viewer, image browser and set of useful tools, such as text finder, file splitter and duplicate files finder.

AmiPic finds web sites matching your interests and downloads not only pictures, video, mp3 and any other files, but also whole web sites, including huge photo galleries and mp3 archives. Using Amipic Sharemaster you can find and download even hidden World Wide Web sites, not available to browse with IE or other programs.

Screenshot Now you can share files simply by uploading them to a web site where other users of AmiPic can download them later. It is possible even without letting others to know your web site URL address! You can share not only regular files, but also you may encrypt files and hide them inside one another.

For example, you may hide a single file or bunch of files in another file, such as a picture, mp3 audio or mpeg video clip. You do not need to create, keep and transmit any password. Each file has it is own secret password and is decoded on-the-fly while being downloaded from WWW or Usenet. Images and other files containing hidden data are fully functional and are identical to the originals. You may still view the images with any conventional image viewer, listen for music or play video clips in your favorite media player.

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As with the explosion of channels in digital television, new tools help cope with the dizzying array of newfound choices. Fact200 acts like a cable box, providing a similar means to download, sift through, and store information. To do this, Fact200 provides the following integrated features:

Pre-fetching and pre-rendering

Seeing is believing. This feature offers the fastest way to view full size previews by either hovering the cursor over an item, or in a slideshow.

Real time sub-searching

Instant feedback allows you to steer your search in the right direction.

Real time keyword matches

These suggestions help guide you to keyword variations that guarantee results.

Library building

Like a VCR, this feature allows you to save your favorite pages so that you can view them at any time, without the Internet.

Multiple Source Searches

Not everyone views the same information. Customize locale, language, or search scope of various internet sources and access them from a single point with all of the above features.

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Free Picture Finder is an image finder and downloader. The application uses the internal image searcher and picture downloader to search for and download pictures on the web. Searching is executed by using keywords, making the search possibilities endless. Found images are fully characterized with size and resolution and stored in an image gallery.

This version targets scores of image sources and provides relevant, valid image search results in seconds. You just need to type a keyword, then Free Picture Finder will give you one-click access to countless free images on Internet, such as funny pictures, celebrity pictures, anime, photos and any kind of image you like. There are also filters for excluding adult content.

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GoogSI is the software-version of the the largest search engine on the web owned by Google, Inc. GoogSI gives you access to 25,270,000,000 indexed web pages in a very easy way, just by pressing Win+X key to open the main text box and writing the query you like to search. Some features: Very little and non-invasive shape. Easy access to GoogSI by pressing Win+X key. Powerful search preferences like "Language page restriction", "Preferred language of results", etc. Easy file-type identification by icon. Can do multiple searches at the same time. Can highlight selected search results. Can delete non-preferred search results. Can export all search results into a single HTML file.

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Telescope is a metasearch engine for Windows, which automates web searching by combining results from several search engines. In addition to general web searching, it can access results from web directories, image search engines, news web sites, encyclopedias, and free software archives. Telescope searches 38 search engines including 7 in the web category.

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FastSeek is designed to extract customized information (such as email addresses, phone/fax numbers, Zip codes etc.) from a batch of web sites or pages simultaneously.

Includes great features such as:

• Pattern Customization
• Multi-layer Search
• Target Search
• Multi-task, Multi-thread
• Ability to categorize results
• Ability to convert results
• Ability to match results
• Flexible and multiform import and export
• Manual search
• Multi-language support

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Chasys Draw Artist (pronounced ch-as-is) is a drawing program like no other. Unlike others, which only allow you to make geometrical drawings like lines and circles, Chasys Draw Artist was designed for drawing images that look real enough to easily pass for photos (like the ones used on this page). In doing their paintings, artists normally use techniques such as blending colors and shading, which, as you may have realized, are either ignored or inadequately implemented in most graphics software.

In designing Chasys Draw Artist, my main intention was to address this need, so that you wouldn't need to do all your art on paper then go through the pain of looking for a scanner to digitize it. Besides, the computing power of today's computers enables us to do things to images we could only imagine 20, 30 years ago. What is Chasys Draw Artist? The artist's canvas, brush, paint, pencil, gallery, safe (incase someone tries stealing your work) ... all in one computer program. Chasys Draw Artist is a tool - a tool for artistic expression. If you can think of it, you can draw it with Chasys Draw Artist.

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Every now and then a piece of technology comes along that bumps up the evolution of the Internet an extra notch. Hotmail did it for email, Google for searching and Skype for phone calls over the net. Quintura is a clever and well-executed application that may well grow to reach this ‘killer app’ status. The aim of the program is to make searching the web an easier and more intuitive process.

Quintura works by allowing you to type a search term then displaying a series of words related to that phrase that ‘float’ around the original term, then subsequently displaying further related terms whenever you roll over one of them – rather like a computerized stream of consciousness. All the while, the application is querying the search engine of your choice and displaying relevant search results in a panel on the right of the interface. This makes for a wonderfully original and logical way of browsing the web, especially if you’re interested in exploring all avenues of one particular topic, or aren’t completely sure what it is that you’re looking for. Once you’ve found a link to a site that you like the look of, you simply click the link and the page will open in a new browser window.

The process of searching the web in this way is a little unusual at first, rather like driving an automatic car when you’ve been used to a gear-stick. It feels very strange not to be able to enter additional keywords or perform boolean operations, plus the absence of an obvious ‘Back’ button is also a little unsettling. The melée of words that are flying all over the screen only serve to add to the confusion. But guess what? It actually works. Within a few minutes of surfing the web in this way you start to develop a feeling of liberation, and you can sit back and enjoy the view without having to worry about the traditional restrictive tools of search. It feels as if new areas of the web are opening up to you, as you continue to slide down the stream of consciousness. Backtracking seems cumbersome at first, but the fact that the search terms you’ve clicked on are highlighted in red means you can simply ‘unclick’ them to head back the trail of information.

Although the program isn’t flourishing with features (it’s still only limited to searching Google, Google News, Yahoo!, and MSN), the few options that are present are very useful. For instance, if you’re not ready to be bombarded with a wave of different tangents from your original search term, you can alter the scope of the search using a simple scroll bar. The accuracy of the results can also be tweaked in the same way. If you’ve been pursuing a particularly interesting area of research, you can save your Quintura search with the click of a button, to come back to another time. One minor gripe we had with the interface was the absence of a Search window. Thus, whenever you want to make a new query you need to close down the search you’re doing and start a new one, with a ‘save current search’ prompt appearing every time. Perhaps this is just another of those search conventions you have to leave at the door when you use the program.

Ultimately, Quintura is a fascinating and original application, which delivers a geat research tool and moreover, gives rise to a completely new and immersive way of surfing the web. Just like the feeling I got the first time I used Google or downloaded Skype, I sense that using the Internet will not quite be the same again after installing this innovative program.

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Monarch Search is powerful research software that provides a set of powerful and highly customizable features to handle the most common web site mining tasks: creating site maps and offline copies, searching sites for pages containing specified keywords, comparing content and search results with history of previous results, downloading selected contents, and requesting automated alerts about changes, to name a few.

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FirstStop WebSearch Deluxe Edition searches the Web quickly and efficiently. It filters, verifies, aggregate and integrate results in a single merged, ordered textual list. Obtaining only relevant results with the help of automatic validation and duplicates removal. Features include: a built-in query wizard, a search library, the ability to export search results to Microsoft Word and Excel, access to browser bookmarks and more.

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Make every Web search a super-search with this intelligent search software, trusted by more than 30 million users worldwide. Copernic Agent Basic queries leading search engines to bring you back relevant, high quality results. Its intuitive user interface and search toolbar quickly allows you to make the most of the numerous included search enhancement features, making your Internet searches faster and easier than ever.

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