{"id":2325,"date":"2011-07-03T06:56:24","date_gmt":"2011-07-03T10:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=2325"},"modified":"2011-07-03T06:56:24","modified_gmt":"2011-07-03T10:56:24","slug":"three-specialty-search-engines-you-never-knew-existed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/three-specialty-search-engines-you-never-knew-existed\/","title":{"rendered":"Three specialty search engines you never knew existed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are a lot of search engines out there besides Google, Bing and Yahoo.  The ones we are featuring today are niche search engines &#8211; they have limited  usability &#8211; but they&#8217;re a lot a fun. And they&#8217;re useful too if their specialty  is what you&#8217;re looking for.<\/p>\n<p>#1. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadcellzones.com\/\"><strong>Dead Cell Zones<\/strong> <\/a>(USA  and UK)<\/p>\n<p>Dead Cell Zones offers a searchable map of user-reported dead  cellular zones. Can you hear me there? The search engine U.S. dead spots that  have been reported by users of AT&amp;T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, and several  smaller carriers. The site they have had more than 100,000 submissions from  users. If you&#8217;re in the UK you can get maps of your cellular dead zones at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadcellzones.com\/uk.html\">www.deadcellzones.com\/uk.html<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p>#2. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sodafinder.com\/\">Soda Finder<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Would  you drink a bottle of soda that hasn&#8217;t been made in 40 yeas? Me either. But  still, some people don&#8217;t really care how old it is &#8211; they&#8217;ll drink it. Soda  doesn&#8217;t get better with age like wine, does i?<\/p>\n<p>To heck with expiration  dates. Soda Finder is fun to browse and search. It&#8217;s also an online store that  offers a search engine to help you find old, rare, and\/or discontinued soda pop.  The site does warn you about drinking these old products. I wasn&#8217;t there to buy  &#8211; I was there for a whiff of nostalgia. So drink up &#8211; some of the soda is fresh!  Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sodafinder.com\/\">www.sodafinder.com<\/a> &#8211; the site and  search engine with pop.<\/p>\n<p>#3. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.typobuddy.com\/\">TypoBuddy<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The world  is full of bad spellers. Even with spell checkers bad spellers abound. (No wise  cracks!). If you&#8217;re searching for bargains online you can take advantage of the  poor folks who cannot spell and will not use a spell checker, by using  TypoBuddy.<\/p>\n<p>TypoBuddy is a search engine that searches eBay and Craigslist for  misspellings. If you type \u201claptop\u201d (spelled correctly) into TypoBuddy\u2019s search  box, and it gives you links to most of the common misspellings of &#8220;laptop&#8221; like  \u201clpatop, loptap, lapotp, laaptop, latop\u201d. So some poor soul trying to sell a  Dell loptap for $500 &#8211; gets no customers because loptap doesn&#8217;t show up in  eBay&#8217;s search engine. But it does in TypoBuddy&#8217;s search results. You might just  get that loptap of your dreams for a hundred bucks. Shame on you for  capitalizing on a poor, helpless, poor speller. You don&#8217;t care? Neither do I .  There are spellcheckers, you know. Try <a href=\"http:\/\/www.typobuddy.com\/\">TypoBuddy<\/a> right now &#8211; and capitalize on  someone&#8217;s poor spelling :-).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a lot of search engines out there besides Google, Bing and Yahoo. The ones we are featuring today are niche search engines &#8211; they have limited usability &#8211; but they&#8217;re a lot a fun. And they&#8217;re useful too if their specialty is what you&#8217;re looking for. #1. Dead Cell Zones (USA and UK) Dead Cell Zones\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/three-specialty-search-engines-you-never-knew-existed\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2325"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2327,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325\/revisions\/2327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}