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A neat little "see tune, hear tune" search hack by Chelfyn using Firefox, Diigo & Fizy to find almost any tune you read about instantly. Just highlight, search, click and the song is playing within seconds.

Watch the how to and listen to Chelfyn on Radio Wammo, explaining how to do it yourself.

 It is very easy to forget with the omnipresence of the Google search engine that there are other ways to find digital media and information online. Makeuseof.com has a list of 13 Alternative Search Engines That Find What Google Can’t which is well worth delving into.

Some of the more cutting edge search tools have come from music engines. Search tools such as Tunefind may help create new music sales, by helping viewers match tracks they hear and like from television shows or films. I'm also finding some interesting new visual search tools such as Search-cube.com. 

I love quotes as they save you having to think, so enjoyed spending some time searching Quotiki. A search for 'happy' gave me this gem: "As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death."- Leonardo da Vinci

Wikipedia also has a comprehensive list of the wide range of specialised and meta search engine tools now available. It just goes to show the wide number of ways that you can navigate online without following the Google herd.

MsBehaviour plays with VideoSurf the hot new Video Search Tools, plus tips for Video Search Engine Optimisation.

Chelfyn covers the Intellectual Archipelagos in Part 2 of our Online Communities tour with xkcd. MsBehaviour reports on VideoSurf & Video Search Tools, and the Mistress takes us through a Short Illustrated History of the Nerd thanks to viewer RJ Evans.