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The Year In Search - Web Search 2005

The Year In Search - About Web Search December 2005

By Wendy Boswell, About.com

December 2005 at About Web Search was full of holiday cheer - we looked at Torrent Typhoon, the top five extravagant web search computer systems, ZoomInfo.com, the top ten Web search geek t-shirts, and the best free ecard sites on the Web.

Browse through niche search engines, have fun with the Christmas scavenger hunt, pop some bubble wrap, go shopping with FatLens, find definitions and translations with OneLook, find a Christmas market in Germany, and find medical information on the Web with the top five medical search engines.

Listen to free radio stations online, search for a domain name, ask Yahoo Answers a question, make a lens on Squidoo, search message boards with BoardTracker, find good Narnia sites, find lesson plans with EducationWorld, use Technorati to search the blogosphere, and search the Web with Snap.

Alexa rolled out a new open search platform, find images with Picsearch, view funny TV ads on the Web, find blogs and opinions with Opinmind, vote for the best Google product of 2005, and find law and order information with the top ten crime and law enforcement search engines.

Top searches of the year: A9, Yahoo, Yahoo, AOL Search, Dogpile, and Google.

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