For serching the web I prefer Google, I used to be an altavista guy. I prefer to find info in peer reviewed works or books, this tend to filter a lot of garbage, and I use goldrush for journals, and Amazon or Half for books.

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The Muslim Brotherhood “must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands..." — Mohamed Akram. http://jihadwatch.org/