1. www.fireball.de (a search engine specialized on German webpages) has
a
feature they call 'live search' which I think is similar to what
Magellan used
to offer. If you hear of more engines that would have that feature, I'd
be
interested to hear about it.
2. Take a look at MetaSpy at http://www.metacrawler.com
If there are other such service, or if anyone has done any analyses of the
linguistic properties of search engine queries, I'd be interested to know.
Brian Ulicny, PhD
Senior Software Linguist
Inso Corporation
31 St James Ave
Boston MA 02116
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