Fodor's 80 Degrees Beach Finder tool can help narrow down the options by location, type and price point.

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Google wasted no time in deploying a Japanese version of their person finder tool to help locate those missing, trapped or safe.

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The Fodor's beach finder tool matches beaches with travelers' interests and budgets and offers hotel and restaurant choices to fit within those parameters.

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The site also now has a perfect car finder tool.

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Google has created a 2011 Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami crisis resource centre with emergency phone numbers, a person finder tool and updated public transportation information (in Japanese).

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We looked at the Top 20 holdings of each Honor Roll mutual fund from the 2009 list and were able to build a portfolio of ETFs that holds many of these mutual fund managers favorite names, simply by using the ETF Finder tool.

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Do you think Deal Finder is a helpful shopping tool even though it only lists products for which eBay offers the lowest price?

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Now Google's patent search is giving prior art some love as well with the addition of the aptly named "Prior Art Finder" to its patent search tool.

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