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If you have a suggestion for a search engine visit my blog and add a comment. I look forward to hearing your thoughts. Introduction The following links allow you to quickly change the default search provider for the countries Australia, United States, United Kingdom and New Zealand. Now you have the search provider set up you can start having some fun. At this stage you are using Google as the search provider. Later we add a number of other
search providers and you will see the search facility is incredibly powerful. Google Search for Internet Explorer 8 Microsoft have removed the option for Google search from the additional search engines making
if very difficult for users to reinstall the standard Google search if required. Users are presented with Bing. This search engine is based on
the same code as originally used for Internet Explorer 8 and is designed for use in Australia.
The Weather Want to know the latest weather? A billion dollar Calculator In the search engine type in 3+4 and hit Enter and Google gives you the answer.
Exchange rates The recent drop in the Australian dollar relative to the US dollar
has a lot of people rethinking overseas holidays, but there is some good news. Check the exchange rate for the country you are visiting. The Australian dollar
has dropped, but so has the currency in other countries. The UK is looking like a better place to vacation than the US. The Euro is looking OK too. Thailand may have to
wait for another year as their currency has held up well compared to the Australian dollar and it is nearly fifty percent dearer to go to Thailand at the moment.
Other Search Providers Whilst the built in features of Google are pretty neat, we can also create other
search providers and this is where the power of search can be used to look up almost anything. In this section we introduce a number of search providers we
have created. JustLocal Search JustLocal is an advertising service aimed at bringing like minded business
people together. Most businesses are built on the logic of taking from customers. That to us drains the local community. If local businesses
looked at their customers as potential suppliers we believe the local community would grow. JustLocal advertisers are
business people that go the extra step. To give as well as receive. We believe this is the future of business. Default Google searches to your country first Our sites statistics show a lot of people prefer to
search pages from their own country first. This helps to promote local sites first. Many large international sites overwhelm smaller local sites. Searching for
pages from your own country first.
Google Maps Need to check out an address. Add the Google Maps search and all
you need to do is enter the address and you go straight to the map. Much easier than trying to find the Google site which
has their maps.
Check you're using the preferred Australian spelling Word Check provides the ability to check if they are using the preferred Australian
English spelling of a word. Suggestions are offered for incorrectly spelt words as well as the ability to quickly look up the
meaning of a word.
Check the country of an IP address For the technical amongst us checking the country of an IP address can be very handy. We often get
people approaching us via our site pretending to be from one country when the address in our logs show us clearly they are
from another country. This tool enables us to check an IP address in our logs, emails and from people placing orders. A great little tool.
ABN - Australian Business Number I regularly look up the ABN of
companies. I decided I'd make this easier using a search engine. There are two search engines.
One to look up the details of the company using the ABN number and the other to enter the company name
to find the ABN. Love to use Yahoo! search In days of past Yahoo offered a clean
search engine without the clutter that we now see. Add either of these search engines and bypass the clutter of their main
page. Until now the clutter put me off Yahoo!. This now means I can quickly check Yahoo search results which often differ
from the results returned by Google giving me more choice.
WolframAlpha The WolframAlpha service is an interesting service to consider when you're lookings
for answers to questions. For example I wanted to know the current Australian import and export figures so I could determine whether Australia is a net importer or
exporter. Asking the questions "Australian imports" and "Australian explorts" gave me the answers I needed. In this case much better than hundreds of thousands of pages
for me to open and check via other search engines. I've found it handy already. Another tool I can add to my bag of tricks.
Google Custom Search Engine This is a test Google Customer search engine
JustLocal Go This search engine will go direct to site if common, otherwise perform a search of Google with the default to pages from Australia. (Testing)
Stay tuned We have a few more search providers we're putting together. If you
have an idea for a search facility, then please feel free to drop us a line.
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At the top right of Internet Explorer 7/8 is an area we'll call the search area.
From our observations many people aren't even aware the search area exists, or what it can do, so they set their default page to Google.|
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