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Google is widely (and rightly) recognised as the mother of all search engines. But, if you need to drill down your searches by more specific details, do you trust Google to give you what you need every single time? Here’s a collection of 3o vertical search engines which you should have up your sleeve when you need some specialist power. Flights / Travel 1.  SkyScanner.net  – The leading flights search engine, providing information about all carriers to help you find the best deal. 2.  Momondo.com  – Very similar to SkyScanner and with an added ‘current searches’ widget to see what flights other people are searching for. (Particularly handy in Europe!) 3.  Hipmunk  - The San Francisco-based startup that’s swiftly revolutionizing trip-planning for savvy travelers with flights, trains and hotel search. Blogs 4.  IceRocket.com  – Searches for content from blogs, Twitter, Facebook and more. 5.  BlogPu...

Twitter search seems fairly basic, which often leads to people using 3rd party Twitter tools for searching. Most people don’t realize it, but Twitter some handy search command abilities: Basic Twitter Search Commands (no surprises here): Multi-word queries: if you search multiple words, Twitter’s default search will search tweets containing both (or all words). Example: big doggy would find tweets that contain both “big” and “doggy”, but not necessarily the words paired together. Exact match queries: if you use quotes, you can limit tweet searches to exact matches. Example: “big doggy” would find tweets that contain the exact phrase “big doggy”. OR queries: if you are looking for two related or interchangable words, OR queries work well. Example: dog OR doggy would find tweets that contain either words. Hash Tag queries: Hash tags used to be one of the only methods of putting a stamp on your tweet to help those searching in Twitter, but they not as critical these...