Meta-research:Trying to do a little research for a freelance story, I stumbled upon Phil Bradley's excellent overview of online research tools. Whatever you're looking for, there's a specific search engine. My favorites: Icerocket is a Google-style engine that also searches cameraphone pictures, blogs, and multimedia offerings—each result accompanied by a thumbnail of the site. Factbites offers summarized (and ostensibly more relevant) searches, while Google Scholar narrows searches down to scholarly articles. Looking for search results in a certain language? Try iBoogie, with language options ranginf rom Afrikaans to Welsh. Use Topix.net to aggregate local news. For another grid of search engines, visit the University at Albany SUNY.