Simple Research Tool

With a great deal of information and books now accessible online, research is far better and easier when using a computer. What’s more, installing specialized applications like Simple Research Tool skip you some time and effort when you don’t exactly know where to look for specific info, or the type you need.

The setup process takes only a little while, and you get to check out the set of features before you realize. For an efficient overall process, you need to make sure your connection is active at all times, and your preferred web browser is set as default, because it’s the only way you get to see things you search for.

On the visual side of things, there’s not much to look at, but the application focuses on simplicity to make things easy to work with. The main window is structured in several sections, depending on the type of content you want to look for. Unfortunately, there’s no way of keeping it close by or launch it with hotkeys, unless you manually configure this from the shortcut properties panel.

As such, the main area lets you initiate a simple search on various popular locations like Domain Search, YouTube, Wikipedia, eBay, Amazon Books, Yahoo Answers, and more. In case you need more options, search can be performed for an image, file type, on a forum, as well as an article.

Your effort is minimum, with the activity narrowed down to writing down the query of interest, and pressing the button in the section of interest, with your default web browser taking care of the rest. Sadly, websites and search algorithms change with time, and there’s a chance results are not properly retrieved for some sections.

Bottom line is that online search is a powerful activity many don’t know how to properly take advantage of. However, if your work involves doing this on a daily basis, or depend on it for one particular task, Simple Research Tool can help out, but not entirely, considering you can’t add custom locations, and some websites might no longer use the same algorithm.