Search Google Services You Forgot Existed with HotDaddy

You know to turn to Google when you need to find something on the Web, but what if you're specifically looking for scholarly articles? Or if you know that Google is indexing print media, but you forgot how to find the Google Print engine? HotDaddy can help. This service keeps track of all of the big Google search engines, from Google Mac to Google Groups, and offers you one page where you can easily search any one of them.





I didn't even know there were specific Google sites for MacOS and Windows, and I certainly didn't know there was a Google Linux search engine. I had forgotten Google Government existed, and where to find Google Print. HotDaddy has them all on one page, and with a single click, you can search any of them, for whichever search term you choose. All of the popular Google services are there--Gmail, Google Images, Google Maps, and Google News--but Google Products (formerly known as Froogle) and Google Stocks? Who knew?

HotDaddy doesn't do much that the rest of us couldn't do alone if we had all the URLs for specific Google search engines bookmarked, or if we remembered the search tweaks that will get us only MP3 results or weather information, for example. The benefit of using a service like HotDaddy is that all the icons are laid out for you, and you can click whichever one you want to use; just type in your search term, and go. The service does leave a little to be desired though, as some of the older Google services that aren't available anymore--such as Google Answers--are still linked at HotDaddy.



HotDaddy doesn't stop with Google services. Though all the Google items are in the center of the page, other search engines, such as Yahoo! and Teoma, are linked on the left side of the page. And sites such as Digg, Wikipedia, IMDB, and Creative Commons have links on the right side of the page. So in case you don't find what you need through Google, you have other options.