Quick! Geocities closes shop tomorrow! Is there an efficient way to search my favorites/bookmarks for geocities pages that might be in there? So I can steal the content before it goes bye bye? [more inside]
posted by rahnefan on Oct 25, 2009 - 10 answers

Where does one proactively look for software (specifically Flex) jobs these days? [more inside]
posted by drjimmy11 on Sep 11, 2009 - 6 answers

Is there a way to quickly check if a certain song (or artist) is on Pitchfork's list of the top 500 tracks of the decade? I've been Googling to try to see if anyone has posted a plain-text version of the whole list on one page, but I haven't found it. [more inside]
posted by Jaltcoh on Sep 4, 2009 - 13 answers

What's that movie in which two male thieves synchronise the timing of their heist by whistling jazz songs? [more inside]
posted by oxit on Aug 23, 2009 - 14 answers

The Adventures of the Black Hand Gang, are there other books that are similar? [more inside]
posted by dejah420 on Jul 30, 2009 - 12 answers

Do Google and Bing spider XML pages? [more inside]
posted by netbros on Jul 28, 2009 - 2 answers

How do I change part of a title across several episodes of the same podcast in iTunes? [more inside]
posted by booksherpa on Jul 27, 2009 - 2 answers

Searching for MARC fields in Millennium OPAC 'Create Lists,' or, more precisely: how can I limit search results to classed serials? [more inside]
posted by wowbobwow on Jun 12, 2009 - 7 answers

Where did I read about a semi-famous blogger and entrepreneur's advice on webhosting? [more inside]
posted by pwnguin on May 24, 2009 - 6 answers

How can I find keywords that many people search for but don't find many links? [more inside]
posted by spacefire on Apr 25, 2009 - 4 answers

Is there a Word plugin or standalone program that will search a Word doc and list all occurrences of a given string, preferably with surrounding words for context? [more inside]
posted by Naberius on Apr 9, 2009 - 4 answers

I deleted the Google search engine from my Firefox search engine bar. How do I add it back? [more inside]
posted by rintako on Mar 21, 2009 - 7 answers

How do I get Google to stop putting the "Try your search on *other search engine links*" bar at the top of all of my search result pages? [more inside]
posted by decathecting on Jan 20, 2009 - 4 answers

Where can I find out more about the investigation techniques used by private investigators? [more inside]
posted by reenum on Jan 19, 2009 - 9 answers

Help please. My Google search has been hi-jacked. The first 15 or so returns look promising until you see the website you will be directed to if you click on the link. For example, searching "Anne Bolyen" returns these links: bestweb choices, strikingoffers, freescan.antivirus, web-antivirus, teens-searcher, lowpriceshopper, and findstuff to name a few. [more inside]
posted by JujuB on Dec 28, 2008 - 20 answers

Looking for a file/library management program with the following features : ability to look for duplicates by CRC comparison, search for text inside files (PDF,Djvu,doc, chm etc) extract and catalog metadata, display on which disk is the file located, even if it's offline. Yes I know about google desktop, but.. [more inside]
posted by elpapacito on Nov 30, 2008 - 1 answer

How do people find new and interesting links on the Web? [more inside]
posted by reenum on Nov 4, 2008 - 11 answers

I could use people's advice as to finding out the most likely future of our economy, how to come out of a period of unemployment proud as to how I used my time, and how to best prepare for the worst. [more inside]
posted by WCityMike on Nov 2, 2008 - 6 answers

I'm trying to find an online database or wiki that is devoted solely to music in film. I'm looking for a site where I can either search for a piece of music and find out what films that piece of music appeared in, or search for a film and find out what music appeared in that film. Does this site exist?
posted by al_fresco on Nov 2, 2008 - 5 answers

What is the name of this search engine game? [more inside]
posted by abirae on Oct 22, 2008 - 8 answers

How to search for anything (or find the answer to anything) on the internet when all else has failed? [more inside]
posted by schindyguy on Oct 21, 2008 - 20 answers

Can you help me find an email address for Harriet Hall, MD - aka the "Skepdoc"? [more inside]
posted by anthropoid on Jul 25, 2008 - 3 answers

Is it possible to run a search at Amazon that excludes "Used and new" items? [more inside]
posted by roofus on Jul 3, 2008 - 7 answers

I modified my website's search engine to log queries--including the search string, timestamp, referer, and visitor IP--in order to discover what visitors are searching for from which pages. Several of the queries have a blank referer and come from the IP 66.249.70.235. Those query strings are not spam-like. Typically they have some relation to my site's topic. The IP appears to belong to the Googlebot, buy why would it behave that way? The queries seem like things a human would enter. Is there some method of accessing a site's search engine that strips the referer header and leaves a bogus IP? As I said, nothing about this appears malicious. I am just wondering what is happening.
posted by Fred Mars on Apr 11, 2008 - 10 answers

[Search/replace filter] Is there a free (or really cheap) software that would let me do a batch search and replace where the name of the file is used as pasted text? [more inside]
posted by domi_p on Apr 8, 2008 - 14 answers

What's the most comprehensive, accurate, and up-to-date blog-searching site? [more inside]
posted by WCityMike on Apr 8, 2008 - 6 answers

I have just uploaded my very long Amazon wish list into librarything (neat!). I would like to see if these books are available at the Mid-Manhattan library. I know I can search for them one by one in Leo (the NYPL search engine). Is there a more efficient way for me to do this? [more inside]
posted by prefpara on Apr 7, 2008 - 5 answers

I'm looking for a script/hack/widget/thingie that will do the following: open lots of folders and extract the files contained in said folders to one single folder. [More Inside] [more inside]
posted by deborah on Dec 22, 2004 - 8 answers