document.write('<table bgcolor="000000" width="450" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" summary="border table"><tr><td><table style="color: 000000; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12px" width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"><tr><td width="99%" bgcolor="FFFFFF" align="left"><font color="000000"><b>About Web Search</b></font></td><td width="1%" bgcolor="FFFFFF" align="right"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="666633"><a href="http://websearch.about.com/b/2010/02/08/recipe-search-by-ingredient-how-to-do-it-on-the-web.htm" target="_blank">Recipe search by ingredient - how to do it on the Web</a><br><div class=\"zemanta-img\" style=\"margin: 1em; display: block;\"> <div> <dl style=\"width: 310px;\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"> <dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><img src=\"http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Icing_to_be_spread_on_cake.JPG/300px-Icing_to_be_spread_on_cake.JPG\" alt=\"b:Cookbook:Chocolate Sour-Cream Icing about to...\" title=\"b:Cookbook:Chocolate Sour-Cream Icing about to...\" height=\"223\" width=\"300\"/></dt> <dd class=\"wp-caption-dd zemanta-img-attribution\" style=\"font-size: 0.8em;\">Image via Wikipedia</dd> </dl> </div> </div> <p>Doing a recipe search by ingredient is useful, especially if you\'ve got a few food items and no idea how to put them together. You can use any search engine you like to do this; simply input your ingredient, say, \"chicken\", and then \"recipes\". Got more than one ingredient? No problem: try chicken+lemon recipes (a little bit of Boolean search there). </p> <p>There are also a few recipe search engines that let you search for multiple ingredients easily. For example:</p> <ul> <li>CookingByNumbers.com </li> <li>Supercook: recipe search by ingredients you have at home </li> <li>Cookstr </li> <li>FoodieView - The Recipe Search Engine </li> <li>Search for Recipes by Ingredient - Recipe Puppy </li> </ul> <p>Do you have a favorite recipe search tip or recipe search site? Please share in the comments. </p> <p><b>More fun with food on the Web</b></p> <ul> <li><b>Droogle - a Drink Recipe Search Engine<br /> </b></li> <li><b>Home Cooking Recipes<br /> </b></li> <li><b>Southern Food and Recipes<br /> </b></li> <li><b>Low Fat Cooking<br /> </b></li> <li><b>Busy Cooks Quick and Easy Cooking and Recipes</b></li> <p><b></b></p> </ul> <p style=\"background:#f5f3ef;border: 1px solid #d5d0bf;padding:.5em;\">Recipe search by ingredient - how to do it on the Web originally appeared on About.com Web Search on Monday, February 8th, 2010 at 00:22:26.</p><p>Permalink | Comment | Email this</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="666633"><a href="http://websearch.about.com/b/2010/02/06/web-search-news-roundup-february-1-6-2010.htm" target="_blank">Web search news roundup February 1-6, 2010</a><br><p>Here\'s what happened in the world of Web search February 1-6, 2010:</p> <ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul\"> <li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\">Bing &#38; Facebook Expand Search Agreement (marketingpilgrim.com)</li> <li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\">Google teams up with National Security Agency to tackle cyber attacks (guardian.co.uk)</li> <li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\">29 Million Searches Per Minute: Global Search Engine Market Grew 46% in 2009 (readwriteweb.com)</li> <li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\">Are we in for a shift in the search engine biz? (inquisitr.com)</li> <li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\">Facebook, Microsoft Expand Search Partnership (paidcontent.org)</li> <li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\">A Search Engine That Relies on Humans (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)</li> <li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\">Google\'s Digital Book Deal Still Troubles The Feds (huffingtonpost.com)</li> </ul><p style=\"background:#f5f3ef;border: 1px solid #d5d0bf;padding:.5em;\">Web search news roundup February 1-6, 2010 originally appeared on About.com Web Search on Saturday, February 6th, 2010 at 02:24:33.</p><p>Permalink | Comment | Email this</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="666633"><a href="http://websearch.about.com/b/2010/02/05/how-to-find-government-databases-on-the-web.htm" target="_blank">How to find government databases on the Web</a><br><p><img src=\"http://z.about.com/d/websearch/1/0/j/C/government.png\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"government databases\"/> If you\'re looking for information, <b>government databases</b> are an excellent place to start: the information has already been evaluated, there\'s usually a lot of it, and the topics you can find this information under are seemingly limitless. </p> <p>However, these databases can be a bit tricky to find since they are part of the Deep Web, the vast repository of information that search engines and directories either can\'t access easily (like intranets or internal wikis) without a little bit of extra search kung-fu. First, let\'s look at a simple search query you can use to find most any subject in a government database:</p> <p><b>site:.gov \"lemons\"</b></p> <p>This brings up all information on lemons that resides on the \".gov\" domain. Since government databases (in the U.S, mind you) are on the .gov domain, you can hit some good results. </p> <p>There\'s also a few stellar \"database doorways\", or portals, you can use to access all sorts of fun government information. For instance:</p> <ul> <li>Data.gov: Meant to eventually increase public access to the wonderful information on government databases. </li> <li>Ben\'s Guide to US Government: A kid-friendly (shoot, ANY age friendly) introduction to the nuts and bolts of government. </li> <li>GPO Access Database: Official information from all three branches of the Federal government. </li> </ul> <p>Oh, and don\'t forget USA.gov or the Library of Congress. Both of these sites offer access to literally thousands of government databases on nearly any topic you can think of. </p> <p><b>More about government sites</b></p> <p><b>The Top Twenty Essential US Government Websites</b>: There are literally hundreds of thousands of US government and government-related Web sites online today, however, I found that these sites consistently offer the best user experience, helping you to find what you need quickly, easily, and efficiently.</p> <p style=\"background:#f5f3ef;border: 1px solid #d5d0bf;padding:.5em;\">How to find government databases on the Web originally appeared on About.com Web Search on Friday, February 5th, 2010 at 08:29:55.</p><p>Permalink | Comment | Email this</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="666633"><a href="http://websearch.about.com/b/2010/02/04/lost-that-users-manual-you-can-find-it-on-the-web.htm" target="_blank">Lost that users manual? You can find it on the Web</a><br><p><img src=\"http://z.about.com/d/websearch/1/0/S/B/books.png\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" alt=\"manual\"/>It\'s probably happened to all of us at one time or another; we buy something that has a hefty manual to go along with it, and we promptly lose that important document. All is not lost however - there are plenty of ways you can use the Web to find a manual to pretty much anything that needs one. Here\'s a simple search you can use in pretty much any search engine:</p> <p><b>\"name and model number of your item\" manual</b></p> <p>That will turn up quite a few hits. Let\'s get more specific:</p> <p><b>\"name and model number of your item\" filetype:pdf\"</b></p> <p>This will bring back only .pdf files that reference your item. Still can\'t find what you\'re looking for? No problem - there are search engines to target manuals. Try The Manuals - Free Manuals Online, Wikibooks, a collection of open-content textbooks, Diplodocs, where you can find your user manual, user guide, instruction manual or owner manual instantly, , or OwnerIQ, a resource for product user manuals, help, forums tips and tutorials.</p> <p><b>And even more manuals</b></p> <ul> <li><b>Google - The Missing Manual <li>Use the Web to Find a Users Manual </li> <li>Camera Instruction Manuals On the Web</li> <p></p></b> </li> </ul> <p><b>More books on the Web</b></p> <ul> <li><b>The Best Sites to Read Books Online for Free <li>The Best Sites for Free Audio Books </li> <li>Find a Book with Book Search Engines</li> <p></p></b> </li> </ul> <p style=\"background:#f5f3ef;border: 1px solid #d5d0bf;padding:.5em;\">Lost that users manual? You can find it on the Web originally appeared on About.com Web Search on Thursday, February 4th, 2010 at 07:49:46.</p><p>Permalink | Comment | Email this</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="666633"><a href="http://websearch.about.com/b/2010/02/03/three-ways-you-can-use-google-to-find-torrents.htm" target="_blank">Three ways you can use Google to find torrents</a><br><p><img src=\"http://z.about.com/d/websearch/1/0/4/q/google-torrent-search.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"google torrent search\"/></p> <p>If you\'re looking for <strong>torrent</strong> files, you can use Google to search for them with three different methods. First, you can use the <b>filetype</b> command to tell Google to ONLY search for specific torrent files:</p> <p><b>goldfrapp filetype:torrent </b></p> <p>This will return a TON of torrent files for the popular band Goldfrapp. Here\'s another method - a customized Google search engine that searches only for torrents. You\'ll be able to find the torrent files you want quickly with this method, since Google crawls thousands of torrent tracker sites and search engines to pull search results for you.</p> <p>Last, but definitely not least, a whole list of search commands put together for one fantastic torrent (and pretty much any other file you want to find) key:</p> <p><b>\"goldfrapp\" last modified mp3 \"index of\" -html -htm -php -asp</b></p> <p>Just substitute the artist Goldfrapp for whatever musical act you\'re trying to find, and you should be able to find a huge amount of music files. </p> <p><b>More about finding torrents on the Web</b></p> <ul> <li><b>How to Find a Torrent Client</b>: In order to download torrents, you have to have a torrent client. Here are my picks for the best torrent clients on the Web.</li> <li><b>Where to Find the Best Torrent Sites</b>: There are so many torrent sites on the Web! How do you know which ones are the best? Here are the top ten torrent sites where you can consistently find good quality torrents to download. </li> <li><b>The Top Twenty Torrent Search Engines</b>: Since there are so many torrent search engines on the Web, I\'ve sorted through them all to show you the best torrent search engines that will help you find the torrents you\'re looking for.</li> </ul> <span class=\"delicioustag\">Del.icio.us Tags: torrent search engines, google search engine, best torrent clients, best torrent sites, google crawls, download torrents, torrent client, torrent files, torrent tracker, google</span> <p style=\"background:#f5f3ef;border: 1px solid #d5d0bf;padding:.5em;\">Three ways you can use Google to find torrents originally appeared on About.com Web Search on Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 at 00:15:13.</p><p>Permalink | Comment | Email this</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="666633"><a href="http://websearch.about.com/b/2010/02/02/four-tools-you-can-use-to-organize-your-web-searches.htm" target="_blank">Four tools you can use to organize your Web searches</a><br>You probably already know that you can bookmark your favorite Web sites in your browser. But if you want to go a little bit further and organize your Web searches even better, here are f<strong>our tools</strong> you can use for free:  <p><img src=\"http://z.about.com/d/websearch/1/0/W/u/clipmarks.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"clipmarks\" hspace=\"5\"/></p>  <p>Clipmarks Save anything - content, videos, messages, etc. - and save them to your Clipmarks. You can share them with others, too, if you want.  </p><p><img src=\"http://z.about.com/d/websearch/1/0/X/u/diigo.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"diigo\" hspace=\"5\"/></p>  <p>Diigo is the prima donna of research tools. You can use it to save your favorites, highlight information, archive, bookmark, annotate, and access your information from anywhere.   </p><p><img src=\"http://z.about.com/d/websearch/1/0/Y/u/evernote.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"evernote\" hspace=\"5\"/></p>  <p>Evernote can save anything for you, even screenshots; then it will organize them for you. Couple of ideas you can use Evernote for? Try creating a detailed vacation itinerary with maps, ticket information, and tourist spots, or how about keeping all those notes from that business meeting right where you can find them next time (and you can even take pictures of the whiteboard!).   </p><p><img src=\"http://z.about.com/d/websearch/1/0/_/u/zotero.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"zotero\" hspace=\"5\"/></p>  <p>Zotero is a Firefox extension that you can use to collect, organize, and even cite your Web research sources. You can store PDF files, make detailed notes on a Web page, and make a bibliography.  </p><p><b>Are there free tools you use to organize your Web searches?</b> Share them with us in the comments.   </p><p><b>More free Web tools</b></p> <ul> <li><b>The Most Useful Web Tools <li>Tools on the Web for Free Spyware Removal </li><li>The Top Ten Free Web Tools </li><li>Online Calendars </li><li>Instapaper - A Simple Bookmarking Tool</li></b> </li></ul> <p style=\"background:#f5f3ef;border: 1px solid #d5d0bf;padding:.5em;\">Four tools you can use to organize your Web searches originally appeared on About.com Web Search on Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 at 00:28:35.</p><p>Permalink | Comment | Email this</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="666633"><a href="http://websearch.about.com/b/2010/02/01/voting-starts-today-in-the-about-web-search-readers-choice-awards.htm" target="_blank">Voting starts today in the About Web Search Reader\'s Choice Awards</a><br><p><img src=\"http://z.about.com/d/websearch/1/0/2/u/readers-choice-awards-2010.png\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" alt=\"readers choice awards\" hspace=\"5\"/> </p><p>The About Web Search Reader\'s Choice Awards received many nominations during the call for nominations period between Jan. 1-25, 2010. This year, the voting period for the 2010 Reader\'s Choice Awards will go from Feb. 1-25, 2010. Winners in each category will be announced on March 1, 2010.</p> <p><b>Click through to the following ten pages in order to vote for your favorite. Voting begins today, February 1, with Reader\'s Choice winners announced March 1. Good luck!</b></p> <p><b>About Web Search Reader\'s Choice Awards</b></p> <ul> <li><b>Best Multimedia Site <li>Best Online Resource for Kids </li> <li>Best Reference Site </li> <li>Best Shopping Site </li> <li>Best Job and Career Site </li> <li>Best News Site </li> <li>Best Travel Site </li> <li>Best Humor Site </li> <li>Best Search Engine </li> <li>Best Blog</li> <p></p></b> </li> </ul> <p><b>Which sites deserve an honorable mention?</b> Which sites are missing that you believe deserve an honorable mention? Share your favorite sites that weren\'t nominated this year in any of the ten categories and why you feel they should have been included in this year\'s awards.</p><p style=\"background:#f5f3ef;border: 1px solid #d5d0bf;padding:.5em;\">Voting starts today in the About Web Search Reader\'s Choice Awards originally appeared on About.com Web Search on Monday, February 1st, 2010 at 00:08:51.</p><p>Permalink | Comment | Email this</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="666633"><a href="http://websearch.about.com/b/2010/01/30/web-search-news-roundup-for-jan-25-30-ubuntu-twitter-slipping-google-social-searches.htm" target="_blank">Web search news roundup for Jan.25-30: Ubuntu, Twitter slipping, Google social searches</a><br><p>Here\'s what happened in the world of Web search this week; if I missed something that you\'d like to bring to our attention, please leave it in the comments!</p> <ul> <li>Admit It, Microsoft: You Suck at the Web (gigaom.com) </li><li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\">\'We want global platforms\': Q&#38;A with Yahoo\'s Matt idema (financialpost.com)</li> <li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\">Ubuntu Moves To Yahoo For Default Firefox Search (linux.slashdot.org)</li> <li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\">Ubuntu Has Switched Default Search Engine from Google to Yahoo! (crenk.com)</li> <li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\">Is Twitter Slipping or Regrouping? (dailyfinance.com)</li> <li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\">Some New Perspective on Microsoft/Apple - Got an intriguing email ... (Jim Goldman/Tech Check with Jim Goldman) (techmeme.com)</li> <li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\">Google Refines Search Results to Counter Microsoft (thaibrother.com)</li> <li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\">Atmel to sell Smart Card units in France, United Kingdom (taragana.com)</li> <li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\">Yahoo Reports a Profit, but Revenue Falls 4% (nytimes.com)</li> <li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\">Chuck Frain: Forced Changes In My Browser (chuckfrain.net)</li> <li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\">A Beautiful and Visual Way to Search Twitter (twitterrati.com)</li> <li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\">Google searches getting more social (cnn.com)</li> <li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\">SEO Ain\'t Dead, But You Need New Skills #Twitter (techstartups.com)</li> <li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\">Sobees Launches Realtime Social Media Discovery Platform (techcrunch.com)</li> <li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\">Managing Your Reputation Online: 5 Essential Tools (computerworld.com)</li> <li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\">The Economist on Social Networking (freshnetworks.com)</li> <li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\">Delicious Updates Viewing Options; Adds StumbleUpon-Like Feature (searchenginewatch.com)</li> <li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\">New Chrome Boasts Bookmark Sync and More (chris.pirillo.com)</li> <li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\">Google releases Social Search beta (v3.co.uk)</li> <li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\">Favilous joins crowded social bookmarking space (venturebeat.com)</li> <li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\">China Bosses Davos as Nobody Discusses What Happened to Google (businessweek.com)</li> <li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\">Google still thinks it can change China (news.cnet.com)</li> <li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\">Imitation Google, YouTube sites emerge in China (sfgate.com)</li> </ul> <p style=\"background:#f5f3ef;border: 1px solid #d5d0bf;padding:.5em;\">Web search news roundup for Jan.25-30: Ubuntu, Twitter slipping, Google social searches originally appeared on About.com Web Search on Saturday, January 30th, 2010 at 13:32:37.</p><p>Permalink | Comment | Email this</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="666633"><a href="http://websearch.about.com/b/2010/01/29/three-ways-to-do-an-advanced-image-search.htm" target="_blank">Three ways to do an advanced image search</a><br><p><img src=\"http://z.about.com/d/websearch/1/0/F/B/question.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"advanced image search\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\"/> If you\'ve ever searched for an image, you\'ve probably been at least a little frustrated with the quality of your results. I know I have! However, many search engines have rolled out some pretty useful <b>advanced image search</b> options. Let\'s look at three of them:</p> <p><b>Google</b>. Google has a great advanced image search option. Search for an image, click on the \"Images\" tab link, and you\'ll be taken to a page of image results. In the top left-hand corner, you\'ll see a link for \"Options\". Click on that, and you\'ll be able to specify what size of an image you\'re looking for right down to the last pixel, the type of image you\'re looking for, and the dominant colors you\'re looking for. </p> <p><b>Yahoo</b>. Yahoo\'s image search is also available from the tab link options. A search for \"puppy\" brings back tons of cute nubbins, with options suggested such as \"cute puppy\" (is there any other kind?) and \"golden retriever puppy\". Advanced image search is available by clicking on the \"More Filters\" link. Now, you can sort image results by size, color, type, and reuse permissions. </p> <p><b>Bing</b>. Bing, while relatively new, brings a pretty impressive advanced image search option to the table. Click on the \"Images\" tab, type in a query, and you\'ll see a page full of your results. The filters you want are to the left-hand side: size, layout, color, style, and people, an interesting search filter that winnows out images based on just face, head and shoulders, or more. </p> <p><b>More on advanced image search</b></p> <ul> <li><b>The Best Image Search Engines on the Web <li>Find an Image with Google Image Search </li> <li>Where to Find Free Images</li> <p></p></b> </li> </ul> <p style=\"background:#f5f3ef;border: 1px solid #d5d0bf;padding:.5em;\">Three ways to do an advanced image search originally appeared on About.com Web Search on Friday, January 29th, 2010 at 01:01:11.</p><p>Permalink | Comment | Email this</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="666633"><a href="http://websearch.about.com/b/2010/01/28/need-to-send-really-big-files-here-are-a-few-sites-you-can-use.htm" target="_blank">Need to send really big files? Here are a few sites you can use</a><br><p>If you\'ve got something that\'s really big to send, and your email client just isn\'t cutting it, there are a few great sites that you can use to upload, share, and send really big files. </p>  <p><img src=\"http://z.about.com/d/websearch/1/0/5/t/megaupload.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"megaupload\" hspace=\"5\"/></p>  <p>Megaupload is one of the largest file hosting/file sharing sites on the Web today.</p>  <p><img src=\"http://z.about.com/d/websearch/1/0/6/t/mediafire.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"mediafire\" hspace=\"5\"/></p>  <p>MediaFire is a popular file and image hosting site that is extremely easy to use.</p>  <p><img src=\"http://z.about.com/d/websearch/1/0/3/t/rapidshare-search-engine.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"rapidshare\" hspace=\"5\"/></p>  <p>Rapidshare Rapidshare is one of the world\'s largest and most popular file-hosting sites.</p>  <p><img src=\"http://z.about.com/d/websearch/1/0/8/t/file-dropper.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"file dropper\" hspace=\"5\"/></p>  <p>If you\'re looking for an extremely streamlined free file hosting site, you can\'t do much better than File Dropper. </p>   <p>Do you have a favorite file hosting site? Share it with us in the comments. </p>  <p><b>More file hosting on the Web</b></p> <ul> <li><b>Ziddu <li>Drop.io </li> <li>Gigasize </li> <li>The Top Five Rapidshare Search Engines</li> <p></p></b> </li> </ul> <p style=\"background:#f5f3ef;border: 1px solid #d5d0bf;padding:.5em;\">Need to send really big files? Here are a few sites you can use originally appeared on About.com Web Search on Thursday, January 28th, 2010 at 00:55:21.</p><p>Permalink | Comment | Email this</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" bgcolor="FFFFFF"><div align="center"><a href="http://www.feedroll.com/rssviewer/" title="rss viewer"><font color="000000">powered by feedroll</font></a></div></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>');