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Searchbots - build your own search robot. Nonprofit Common Crawl Offers a Database of the Entire Web, For Free, and Could Open Up Google to New Competition. Google famously started out as little more than a more efficient algorithm for ranking Web pages.

Nonprofit Common Crawl Offers a Database of the Entire Web, For Free, and Could Open Up Google to New Competition

But the company also built its success on crawling the Web—using software that visits every page in order to build up a vast index of online content. A nonprofit called Common Crawl is now using its own Web crawler and making a giant copy of the Web that it makes accessible to anyone. The organization offers up over five billion Web pages, available for free so that researchers and entrepreneurs can try things otherwise possible only for those with access to resources on the scale of Google’s. “The Web represents, as far as I know, the largest accumulation of knowledge, and there’s so much you can build on top,” says entrepreneur Gilad Elbaz, who founded Common Crawl. 100 Useful Tips and Tools to Research the Deep Web.

By Alisa Miller Experts say that typical search engines like Yahoo!

100 Useful Tips and Tools to Research the Deep Web

And Google only pick up about 1% of the information available on the Internet. KNOWeSCAPE. Draw A Creative Mind Map for Self Analysis. Many personal development experts share about the benefits of using mind maps.

Draw A Creative Mind Map for Self Analysis

My post today takes it one step further with how I have used the concept of mind mapping for self analysis. I also share illustrations from my personal art journal that I created some time ago. I drew them as part of my pre-vision board exercises. Deep Web Search Engines. Where to start a deep web search is easy.

Deep Web Search Engines

You hit Google.com and when you brick wall it, you go to scholar.google.com which is the academic database of Google. After you brick wall there, your true deep web search begins. You need to know something about your topic in order to choose the next tool. To be fair, some of these sites have improved their index-ability with Google and are now technically no longer Deep Web, rather kind-of-deep-web.

However, there are only a few that have done so. ! Google Ultimate Interface. About Google.

! Google Ultimate Interface

Distributed web crawling. Distributed web crawling is a distributed computing technique whereby Internet search engines employ many computers to index the Internet via web crawling. Such systems may allow for users to voluntarily offer their own computing and bandwidth resources towards crawling web pages. By spreading the load of these tasks across many computers, costs that would otherwise be spent on maintaining large computing clusters are avoided.[1] Types[edit] Cho and Garcia-Molina[2] studied two types of policies: Dynamic assignment[edit] With this type of policy, a central server assigns new URLs to different crawlers dynamically.

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5min - Find the best how to, instructional and DIY videos – Life Videopedia

Toodledo : A productivity tool to manage your tasks, to-dos, notes, outlines and lists. DataparkSearch Engine - an open source search engine. Official Web Site: Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers, by Michael Schrenk. The Ultimate Yahoo! Pipes Creations List. 100 Amazing How-To Sites to Teach Yourself Anything. Posted by Site Administrator in Online Learning May 7th, 2009 Learning new skills and expanding your knowledge doesn’t have to cost you an arm and a leg.

100 Amazing How-To Sites to Teach Yourself Anything

There are loads of free resources on the Web that can help you find instructional videos, tutorials and classes to learn a wide variety of skills from fixing basic car problems to speaking another language. With 100 sites to choose from, you’re bound to find something here that will help you learn just about anything you could want. General Tutorials These sites offer a wide range of tutorials and videos. Around the House. Meta Search Alerts - SML Wiki. 80 How-To Sites Worth Bookmarking. Questpod - Don't search. Ask around! SoulPancake. 7billionideas Latest Ideas. INFJ personality. The INFJ personality type is very rare, making up less than one percent of the population, but they nonetheless leave their mark on the world.

INFJ personality

As Diplomats (NF), they have an inborn sense of idealism and morality, but what sets them apart is the accompanying Judging (J) trait – INFJs are not idle dreamers, but people capable of taking concrete steps to realize their goals and make a lasting positive impact. INFJs tend to see helping others as their purpose in life, but while people with this personality type can be found engaging rescue efforts and doing charity work, their real passion is to get to the heart of the issue so that people need not be rescued at all. How to Grow Your Personal Brand When You're an Introvert. 50 Best Websites 2014.

10 Minute Mail In case its name didn't give it away, 10 Minute Mail sets you up with a self-destructing email address that expires in -- you guessed it -- 10 minutes.

50 Best Websites 2014

Your temporary inbox works just like regular email, allowing you to forward and respond to messages, and you can add extra time if 10 minutes isn't quite long enough. Once you're done, light a match and walk away. The Complete Idiot’s Guides. Raindrop.io - Smart bookmarks. Blem. CompletePlanet - Discover Over 70,000+ Databases & Specially SE's. So, You Want A Searchable Database, Huh? - www.htmlgoodies.com. Use these to jump around or read it all...

So, You Want A Searchable Database, Huh? - www.htmlgoodies.com

[Search Someone Else's Database] [But I Want To Search MY Site!] [Goodies Search -- Java-Driven Search Engine] [Use AltaVista or HotBot] I am asked this question time and time again, "How do I set up a searchable database? " There are actually a few different ways -- some are harder than others. Here's a quick look at the three main ways. Proxy Server Sites. 10 Search Engines to Explore the Invisible Web. Not everything on the web will show up in a list of search results on Google or Bing; there are lots of places that their web crawlers cannot access. The 6 Most Badass Skills You Can Learn in Under a Week. Become a Human Lie Detector Any secret agent worth his hidden cyanide pills is going to have to be prepared for intense negotiations. Whether you've captured a deadly SPECTRE double-agent working as an MI6 janitor, or are just buying a used car, you've got to be able to tell when the enemy is lying through his teeth to you, and how to best disguise the fact that you're lying through your teeth at the same time.

Also you can be like that guy in Lie to Me, for the few of you who watch that show. The Coursework: This particular double-oh technique has been cleverly disguised as a business management lecture lasting only a few hours, steeped in the psychology of human information processing and body language. DecideAlready - Decisions made easy. 250+ Free Stock Photography Sites. Pictures. Soup. 10 Search Engines to Explore the Invisible Web. INTERESTING WEBSITES COLLECTION. Mural.ly. 5000 Best Websites - Porn. Michael Cerdeiros - Cerious Productions. Changelog and Updates The following websites were part of the original list but they are either no longer available or have been replaced with better alternatives.

Go2Web20.net - The complete Web 2.0 directory. Web 2.0 Directory : 907 Web 2.0 Sites in 50+ categories : eConsultant. Urban Dictionary Browse Y.URL. Find out about anything and everything. 100 Google Docs Tips. November 9th, 2009 Students and educators have a wealth of learning and productivity tools available to them online. Google offers some of the highest-quality resources on the web to meet all your study and teaching needs, and all you need to access them is an internet connection. The Google Docs collection provides a streamlined, collaborative solution to writing papers, organizing presentations and putting together spreadsheets and reports. But besides the basic features, there are lots of little tricks and hacks you can use to make your Google Docs experience even more productive.

Here are 100 great tips for using the documents, presentations and spreadsheets in Google Docs. Keyboard Shortcuts Navigate your documents and screen a lot faster when you use these keyboard shortcuts for formatting and more. Productivity Hacks. 52 Google Docs Secrets. 100+ Alternative Search Engines You Should Know. If someone asks you, off the top of your head, what search engines you use or know off, chances are you’ll be naming the regulars: Google, Bing, Yahoo. Access Any Website Or Forum Without Registering. 29 Incredibly Useful Websites You Wish You Knew Earlier. There are so many wonderful websites around, and it is difficult to know each and every one of them. The below list provides some of those websites that I find particularly helpful, even though they are not as famous or as prevalent as some of the big names out there. 1.

Top of the Web. Resources by Subject. Google Search Operators. The following table lists the search operators that work with each Google search service. Click on an operator to jump to its description — or, to read about all of the operators, simply scroll down and read all of this page. The following is an alphabetical list of the search operators. Your Bookmarks and favorites in the cloud. TooManyTabs for Chrome. BagTheWeb. CompletePlanet - Discover over 70,000+ databases and specially search engines. Snitch Name. 52 Google Docs Secrets.

Creative Commons Search. Ebook3000. Operators and more search help - Web Search Help. Choose the Best Search for Your Information Need. ICDL - International Children's Digital Library. 115 Useful Websites - Imgur. Technology is Awesome ;) Deep Web. Using the new Positive Psychology. Tagxedo - Tag Cloud with Styles. Download Free Web 2.0 Logo Designs. Listen to Free Music Online. FeelingsList.pdf. Openoox. Find An Answer To Any Question - How, Who, What, Where, When, Why, Which. Sentiment Analysis Takes the Pulse of the Internet. Top 40 Useful Sites To Learn New Skills. The web is a powerful resource that can easily help you learn new skills. WikiWand. Skills Assessment Platform. 100 Websites You Should Know and Use (updated!) Entertainment Meet David Peterson, who developed Dothraki for Game of Thrones There are seven different words in Dothraki for striking another person with a sword. Kippt. Freedom Index : Find Freedom!

A List of Excellent Personal-Development Sites. I recently polled Ask Metafilter for the best personal development sites: Utopic - Visual social bookmarking. Never lose a bookmark again. The People Image - Image Bank. Personalize the Web. St - A place for geeks to share what they've done, who they did it with and connect with great companies. Organize your resources in an online binder - LiveBinders. 99 Resources to Research & Mine the Invisible Web. Yoga Postures Step-By-Step - Index to Poses - StumbleUpon. 5000 Best Websites - Porn. WikiWand. My Little Box.

AskTheBrain. Le magazine pour comprendre le monde. The Well of Being: An Extraordinary Children’s Book for Grownups about the Art of Living with Openhearted Immediacy. 50 Important Advice and Things To Know That People Usually Aren't Told About.