Web site of the month: eTools.ch

www.etools.ch/

eTools.ch is a Swiss hosted metasearch engine. What is a metasearch engine? Rather than having it's own database of sites, eTools searches 15 different sources at the same time to present you with a comprehensive list of information. There is more information about the way it searches on the site.

The sites it uses for searching include Google, DuckDuck go (which we really like), Bing, Ask and Google Scholar, to name a few.

eTools allows you to set a number of preferences that are saved onto your device by a cookie (meaning no having to remember yet another log in). These include:

• main country to be searched
• language
• weighting to give to each of the 15 sources, from normal to very important. You can even select sources and exclude them from your search results completely.
• safe search filter
• a number of setting around how results are displayed

eTools also offers phrase search (using " "), AND, OR and NOT operators. You can also download your results as a .PDF file using the handy results tool.

Finally, eTools also offers a mobile friendly version, making it easy to use with a tablet or smartphone.

With it's handy customisable search features, eTools is a useful way of quickly searching a number of different sources to get a better spread of results, all from one place.