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Here are some search tools specialising in organising and locating Singapore content. Many of these do provide worldwide resources as well. These are especially useful and accurate when you are looking for local information or local websites.

Search Engine

Description

Search Tips

Official source of information on Singapore, and a one-stop guide to Singapore. You can access national information from the front page at "Flavours of Singapore". The website also contains 15 categories of directory links ranging from Arts & Entertainment to Travel.
Searches for Singapore-related information, powered by Google.

Supports:
+ in front of the word: To include common words in search.
- in front of the term: To exclude words in search.
" ": Phrase searching
OR operator
Domain Restriction, e.g. admission site:www.stanford.edu

Does not support:
Wildcards (*) or truncations
Case sensitivity
AND operator (defaulted)

Microsoft's MSN web directory for Singapore.

Supports:
+ in front of the word: To include words in search.
- in front of the term: To exclude words in search.
Boolean operators: AND, OR, AND NOT
Stemming: Enable Stemming check box in advanced search

Search Tips

Singapore headlines and categorized directory of Singapore sites.

Supports:
+ in front of the word: To include words in search.
- in front of the term: To exclude words in search.
" ": Phrase searching
OR operator
Wildcards (*) or truncations
Field Restriction, e.g. t:title, u:url