Social media of all kinds are a source of huge amounts of fresh information about news and events, likes and dislikes. But the signal-to-noice ratio is not good: Much, maybe most, of the material posted is personal and it can be hard to find the pertinent information. You need help to sift and sort the items, so why not try one of these five great real time search engines.

Google values simplicity. The main page still has little more than the search box and the button. But there is much more to Google than that. Here are ten Google search tips for students — equally useful for others that have information intensive work, even professors

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Often, when I am watching a movie, I get curious about stuff like “Where have I seen this actor before?” or “Isn’t this the same director tht did that other movie I like so much?” Earlier I would have called my friend the movie buff. Now there are some excellent search engines availble so I don’t need to bother him at odd hours. Here are the top five movie search engines. Three of them will help you find movie facts, two will hepl you find movies you might enjoy.

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Search is going mobile. The number of people accessing the web on their mobile phone is skyrocketing and searching on your mobile or cell phone is different than searching on your computer: The screen is smaller and typing can be a hassle. To make your mobile searching fun and easy we present five great tools for mobile web search.

If you have an iPhone, you have probably already seen our Top 5 iPhone search apps article. But whether you are surfing the web from a regular cell phone, a smart phone or a web enebled PDA, searching is bound to be important to you. The five tools presented here, work on all platforms.

All the major search engines have their own image search engines. These may actually generate a lot of traffic. Here’s how you attract image search visitors to your site.