Researchville.com -- Prefilled Search Engine Queries

It's sort of like a meta-search engine, but not. Researchville.com ( http://www.researchville.com ) gives you a box to enter a query, then lets you choose a search engine -- or several search engines. For example, say you wanted to search today's news for flapjack. Enter flapjack in the query box and at the bottom of the Today's News category, choose "open all links in 6 New Windows." Six windows will open up, with six news search engines' results for the query term flapjack.

The site has several categories, including multimedia, news, and reference. If you have cookies enabled you can save queries as "favorites" to come back to again (Researchville.com says it collects no personal information.)

I have seen sites do something like this before, but it was generally only for one type of information -- stock and financial information, for example. It's an interesting idea but one that will take some getting used to. I would love to see the number of sites and categories expanded, as well.

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