Advanced web search for students and researchers
RefSeek is a search engine that offers advanced web search for students and researchers without information overload. It has its own index of more than one billion documents, including web pages, books, encyclopedias, journals, and newspapers. A recent upgrade introduced document search, definitions, math calculations, and an expanded reference directory.
Document Search
RefSeek’s new document search engine finds non-HTML documents including Adobe PDFs and Microsoft Office files. Conveniently, documents can be previewed without leaving RefSeek’s search results page.
Definitions
RefSeek delivers definitions and synonyms for 150,000 words and phrases. These definitions are displayed above the regular search results with links to the complete entries in selected online dictionaries. My test search for apocrypha retrieved definitions from Wikipedia and Encarta.
Math Calculations
My favorite is natural language math calculations. You can find answers to math expressions and perform a broad range of unit conversions. For example, searching for “5 in binary” or “how many feet in a meter” will return a numeric result.
Reference Directory
RefSeek has expanded its Reference Directory, accessed via a link in the upper right corner. It includes hundreds of carefully selected reference sites in categories such as almanacs, bookmarking, dictionaries, and encyclopedias.
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