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Technically, plugins are collections of URLs and procedures that DEVONagent Express uses to access search engines on the web. They are either written in Cocoa or in human-readable XML (plain text with special syntax). In addition to simple HTML queries, DEVONagent Express also supports and analyzes RSS, RDF, RSD, and Atom feeds.
Note: Some sites need a valid log-in. If you want to query these sites with a plugin, you need to enable cookies and manually log in with your web browser in advance. Then when you use DEVONagent Express, the websites will recognize you as a returning user. You will find a note in the plugin description if a site needs a log-in.
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Note: DEVONagent Express presents this category in its menu separately above the other plugins to make them easier accessible.
Bing: Searches the web using Bing, Microsoft's web search engine. Bing is considered to be the only real competitor to Google's search engine. Blekko: Searches selected websites on Blekko. Blekko uses 'slashtags' to select the websites to search. Exalead: Searches the web using Exalead Search. Google: Searches the web using Google. Google is famous for ranking websites by the number of other sites linking to it. Google is now widely recognized as the world's largest search engine. Lucky Guess: Scans URLs derived from the search term. Very useful if you are looking for a company or a product website. Web: Searches the web using Bing, Google, and Yahoo. Depending on the system language DEVONagent Express also uses local search engines or local variants. Yahoo: Searches the web using Yahoo, one of the three major search engines. Yandex: Searches the web using Yandex. Apple App Store: Searches Apple's App Store. Developer Connection: Searches the Apple Developer Connection database, the number one source for Mac OS X developers. Knowledge Base: Searches the Apple Knowledge Base , the #1 resource for finding technical information about Mac computers, the Mac Operating System and Apple software. Macintosh News: Scans major Macintosh news sites, namely Macworld, MacCentral, Macintouch, and MacNN. Use this plugin to stay up-to-date about everything Macintosh. MacUpdate: Searches for Mac OS X software using Macupdate. MacUpdate watches for the latest Macintosh software updates and visit over more than 800 websites a day, looking for version changes to software titles that developers themselves don't submit. Blogs Google Blogs: Searches blogs using Google Blogsearch. Technorati: Searches blogs using Technorati. Technorati indexes abut 27.4 million blogs (as of February 2006), classified by a staff of human editors. Browsers All Cached Pages: Scans all pages cached by earlier search runs. Use this to include already scanned pages again in a new search. Bookmarks: Scans all websites bookmarked in DEVONagent, Safari, OmniWeb , Camino, Chrome, or Firefox for the search query. You can use this plugin to create your private mini-web with your bookmarks and search only this collection. DEVONthink Pro Office: Searches shared DEVONthink Pro Office databases through the local web server. DEVONthink Pro Office has to be opened and web sharing started by the same user. History: Scans the pages you have visited recently with Safari or DEVONagent Express for the search query. Useful to search for something you remember you have seen recently but you cannot remember where. Computer Science ACM Digital Library: Searches the digital library of the Association for Computing Machinery. Apple Cocoa-Dev: Searches Apple's cocoa-dev mailing list. Very useful if you do Mac OS X software development. Citeseer: Searches the CiteSeer library. Citeseer is a scientific literature digital library and search engine that focuses primarily on the literature in computer and information science. Cocoabuilder: Searches Apple & Omnigroup Cocoa mailing lists using Cocoabuilder. Very useful if you do Mac OS X software development. Koders Code Search: Searches for open source code examples and projects using Koders. Koders.com is a free search engine for open source code and new OSS (Open Source Software) projects. It indexes over 190 million lines of code and tens of thousands of projects. Dictionaries Acronym Finder: Searches Acronym Finder, the world's largest and most accurate dictionary of acronyms, abbreviations and initialisms. Dictionaries: Looks for word definitions in online dictionaries, namely Reference.com and Hyperdictionary. Infoplease: Searches Infoplease, a reference source that combines the contents of an encyclopedia, a dictionary, an atlas, and several almanacs with statistics, facts and historical records. Onelook: Searches for word definitions or translations using Onelook. Onelook is a search engine that provides access to web-based dictionaries that define or translate words. Wiktionary: Looks for word definitions in the online dictionary Wiktionary. Wiktionary is a free multilingual dictionary and thesaurus that's being written collaboratively. Anybody can edit any article and a record of changes is kept. This plugin is localized and searches in the selected language. Directories Open Directory: Searches the Open Directory. The Open Directory (Dmoz.org) tries to be the largest free web catalog. WoW: Searches the WoW catalog. WoW categorizes websites by country, state or region and uses a professional editorial team. Yahoo Directory: Searches the Yahoo directory. The Yahoo directory was the world's first professionally edited web directory. It is currently divided into fourteen main categories. Discussion Lists DEVONtech Forum: Searches DEVONtechnologies' online discussion forum. Find answers to your most pressing questions regarding DEVONagent Express & Co. Usenet Groups: Looks for postings in Usenet groups using Google. The Usenet is the oldest Internet-based community on the Internet with archives dating back to 1981, long before the web was widely used outside the academic community. Yahoo Answers: Looks for answers to user-posted questions on Yahoo Answers. Government FirstGov: Searches for US government information using FirstGov.gov. FirstGov.gov is the official US gateway to all government information, with millions of webpages from federal and state governments, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories. Google Government: Searches public US government materials using Google Goverment search. Images & Videos Google Video: Finds videos using Google Video. Images: Finds images using Google.com and Yahoo (including Flickr). Whatever image you are looking for, if it's on the Internet you should be able to find it. Info (Images): Searches for images using Info.com. Info.com is a meta search engine that provides results from other search engines and pay-per-click directories. Info (Videos): Searches for videos using Info.com. Info.com is a meta search engine that provides results from other search engines and pay-per-click directories. Picsearch: Searches for pictures using Picsearch. Picsearch is a search engine specialized in creating a searchable index of images. Webshots: Searches for pictures using Webshots. Webshots is the world's largest photo and wallpaper sharing site with more than 23 million monthly visitors and over 218 million photos. YouTube: Searches for videos on the popular video clip service YouTube. Legal FindLaw: Searches for legal materials using FindLaw. FindLaw is the highest-trafficked legal website, providing a comprehensive set of legal resources on the Internet for legal professionals, businesses, students and individuals. Google Scholar: Searches for legal opinions and journals using Google Scholar. Lexis: Searches for legal materials using Lexis. LexisNexis provides customers with access to billions of searchable documents and records from more than 45,000 legal, news and business sources. Medical Clinical Trials: Searches for materials on ClinicalTrials. ClinicalTrials provides regularly updated information about US federally and privately supported clinical research on human volunteers. FDA: Searches for material on the website of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The index is updated every night as many FDA documents are time sensitive. Healthfinder: Searches for health-related materials using Healthfinder. Healthfinder is a gateway to selected consumer health and human services information resources provided by government agencies and other organizations. MedlinePlus: Searches for health-related materials using MedlinePlus. MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from the National Library of Medicie (NLM), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other government agencies and health-related organizations. PubMed: Searches the PubMed bibliographic database. PubMed provides access to bibliographic information that includes MEDLINE and OLDMEDLINE, as well as out-of-scope citations, citations that precede the date that a journal was selected for MEDLINE indexing and some additional life science journals that submit full text to PubMedCentral and receive a qualitative review by the NLM. WebMD: Searches for health-related materials using WebMD. WebMD provides valuable health information, tools for managing your health and support to those who seek information. News BBC News: Searches for news on BBC News. Google News: Searches for news using Google News. Google uses its own search engine to scan important news websites and automatically compile a news portal using the found data. Info News: Searches for news using Info.com. Info.com is a meta search engine that provides results from other search engines and pay-per-click directories. Reuters: Searches for news on the Reuters news database. Reuters is a global information company providing information tailored for professionals in the financial services, media and corporate markets. RocketNews: Searches for news using Rocketinfo. Rocketinfo continuously searches and indexes over 16,000 Internet sites, 70,000 RSS and blog sources as well as client-defined content channels, for current news and business information. Topix: Searches for news using Topix. Topix provides a news portal that aggregates news from other sources. WorldNews: Searches for news on the World News Network. World News Network ranks as one of the top sites for world news on the Internet. It includes more than 3,000 sites and covers 24 languages. These are categorized by geography and subject. Yahoo: Searches for news on Yahoo News. Yahoo uses its own search engine to scan important news websites and automatically compile a news portal using the found data. Patents Google Patent Search: Covers the entire collection of patents made available by the USPTO, from patents issued in the 1790s through those issued in the middle of 2006. It doesn't include patent applications, international patents, or U.S. patents issued over the last few months. US Patent Office: Searches for patents on the US Patent and Trademark Office homepage. WIPO: Searches for patents using WIPO. The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is an international organization dedicated to promoting the use and protection of works of the human spirit. References Google Scholar (Articles): Searches for scholarly literature using Google Scholar. Google Scholar indexes scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources. Googlism: Lists the 'knowledge' stored in the Google database about a given search word. Googlism will find out what Google thinks of you, your friends or anything. Gutenberg.de: Searches for literature in the German-language Project Gutenberg database of free ebooks. Gutenberg.org: Searches for literature in the English-language Project Gutenberg database of free ebooks. Highbeam: Searches for articles on Highbeam Research. HighBeam names itself the premier online research tool for business and academic use with more than 80 million articles from the archives of over 6,500 newspapers, magazines, journals, and other publications. Internet Public Library: Searches for literature in the The Internet Public Library. The Internet Public Library is a public service organization and a learning and teaching environment at the University of Michigan School of Information. JSTOR: Searches for articles on JSTOR. With more than a thousand academic journals and over 1 million images, letters, and other primary sources, JSTOR claims to be one of the world's most trusted sources for academic content. Philosophy: Searches for literature in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is maintained and kept up to date by an expert or group of experts in the field. Poetry: Searches for English poetry using the Electronic Poetry Center, founded by Loss Pequeño Glazier and Charles Bernstein. SEC: Searches the EDGAR database of the SEC. Wikipedia: Searches for articles in the free online encylopedia Wikipedia. The content of Wikipedia is free, written collaboratively by people from all around the world. Begun in 2001, Wikipedia has rapidly grown into the largest reference website on the Internet. This plugin is localized and searches in the selected language. Science American Chemical Society: Searches for materials on the American Chemical Society (ACS) website. The American Chemical Society is a self-governed individual membership organization that consists of more than 158,000 members at all degree levels and in all fields of chemistry. IngentaConnect: Searches online journals using IngentaConnect. IngentaConnect publishes scholarly and professional journals in all subject areas. It supports and produces more than 3,000 online journals. ScienceGems: Searches for materials using ScienceGems. ScienceGems indexes more than 14,000 science resources sorted by category, subcategory and grade level. Scinet: Searches for materials using Scinet. SciNet claims to be the Internet's premier science and technology search engine since 1999. Scirus: Searches for materials using Scirus. Scirus is a science-specific search engine indexing over 200 million science-specific webpages. Social Networking Twitter: Searches for tweets on Twitter. Facebook Profiles: Searches Facebook profiles.