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Pure Python search engine. Might be just the ticket for fixing the groovymother.com search box, which has been busted for six months!

Why am I only finding this now? A smart replacement for the “find . | xargs grep” recipe I use on a daily basis.

A t-shirt search engine. Limited to a small number of vendors currently (Threadless, Busted Tees, et al), but hopefully will expand to some new sources.

Google has a first stab at making video content searchable, across a selection of political speeches. Will be interesting to see how well this works.

Really nice Flickr search tool. Gives you a great at-a-glance thumbnail view.

Good Twitter search-engine, which has RSS feeds for search results.

Yahoo’s made a bunch of song lyrics legitimately available for searching. Nice, and all, but it’s still easier to google for “song title lyrics”.

Open-source C search engine. I still prefer Lucene, but PyLucene is notoriously flakey under mod_python, so I’m using XapWrap to power the groovymother search.

The shitty search built into MovableType has been hammering my server. Hopefully this’ll be a decent drop-in replacement.

Best feature of the Flickr “Gamma”? Proper fulltext search functionality, including Creative Commons searching. Huzzah!

Snap (the olde Idealab search site) has relaunched. It’s an endearingly different approach, and good for browsing, but I imagine it’s be a PITA when doing in-depth technical searches.

Visualizations on how Yahoo, Google and MSN (and comment spam bots) spider through content.

Search engine for the code samples made available for download by programming book publishers.

Crudely sketch something, and find photos on Flickr that resemble it.