Google is not enough [Archive]

Photo: Olympia exhibition Centre, © Copyright Kenneth Allen and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons 2.0 Licence , http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/908621 This presentation is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Licence The ever changing landscape of search: Google is not enough Tuesday, 1 st December 2009, Olympia 11:45 - 12:15 - Theatre C [email_address] , Twitter: karenblakeman http ://www.slideshare.net/karenblakeman

Coverage and availability of slides
This session:
What’s new in the major search tools, some new specialist search tools, image search, videos and podcasts, a bit of web 2.0
Very superficial overview!
Twitter
Twitter for Business, Online Information conference session
Twitter 101 presentation Tuesday, 1st December 2009, 16:00-17:30, Track 2
Social & professional networks, Web 2.0
More detail in Business research: Web 2.0 is not an option but a necessity, Wednesday, 2 nd December 2009, 12:00 - 12:30 - London Room
All presentations available on Slideshare
http://www.slideshare.net/karenblakeman
01/12/09 www.rba.co.uk

How do people really search?
Publican hiring bar staff uses Facebook to pre-screen candidates
Student used YouTube to find information on the life cycle of the Duck Billed Platypus for an essay
Business students assignment on advertising history of Cadbury’s Crème Egg and Dairy Milk – Youtube!
Newsletter editor looking for images of autumn leaves – specific colours required (Chromatik)
Twitter and blogs used as an essential part of reputation monitoring
What’s happening at conferences e.g. Online Information 2009 #online09 - Twitter, Slideshare

Searches that failed!
Original TV coverage of the storming of the Bastille
Podcast of Abraham Lincoln delivering the Gettysburg address
not an actor but THE Abraham Lincoln
Photo of the baby Jesus with Joseph and Mary (9 year old asked “Why didn’t the shepherds or the wise men take any photos with their mobiles?”)

Google search Blogger profile Twitter profile Facebook profile LinkedIn profile 01/12/09 www.rba.co.uk Major search engines now include social and professional networks in results

Google search 01/12/09 www.rba.co.uk

Yahoo!
Now includes options to limit search to selected networking sites
Varies depending on type of search
(Deal with Bing makes it difficult to predict what will happen in the near future to Yahoo search)

Bing
http://www.bing.com/ (was live.com)
“ decision engine”
Results vary considerably depending on the country version
New interface but no improvement in advanced search screen
Results tend to be more consumer oriented
My personal experience is that it seems to have the most up to date database
Sometimes finds content not in Google or Yahoo (although we were told at a London meeting that they only have 10 billion pages!)
Twitter search http://www.bing.com/twitter
very disappointing, unreliable, not comprehensive,
1 December 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk

Blindsearch
http://blindsearch.fejus.com/

iSEEK
http://www.iseek.com/
Clusters results into topics, people, places, organisations, date & time
Search on a person gives priority to social media profiles
“ Education” option – more research oriented pages

Biznar
http://www.biznar.com/
Real time federated search of selected business resources, some of them “hidden web” or “deep web”
Click on Advanced Search to see a list of the sources

Wolfram Alpha
http://www.wolframalpha.com/
“ Computational knowledge engine”
Statistics, scientific data, share prices, chemical structures
Apparently, good for maths homework
“ Curated data”
gathered from a variety of sources and added to their database
Does not give you the source of the answers
Sometimes very out of date
Sometimes wrong e.g. chemical structures (but can’t tell how the errors have arisen)
Despite drawbacks nominated for Top 10 Search Tips by participants in one of my recent workshops

Ten science search engines – update
Google Scholar is most definitely not enough!
spineless? http://hwlibrary.wordpress.com/2009/09/17/ten-science-search-engines-update/#comment-7943
Scirus – http://www.scirus.com/
Scitopia.org – http://www.scitopia.org/
Science.gov – http://www.science.gov/
ScienceResearch.com - http://www.scienceresearch.com/
Scitation - http://scitation.aip.org/
WorldWideScience.org - http://worldwidescience.org/
Science Accelerator - http://www.scienceaccelerator.gov/
TechXtra – http://www.techxtra.ac.uk
search.optics.org - http://search.optics.org/
What would you nominate for number 10

Chemspider
http://www.chemspider.com/
A chemistry search engine aggregating & indexing chemical structures and their associated information into a single, free of charge, searchable repository

Search for different formats
PDFs, XLS, presentations, images, videos, podcasts
Use Google and Yahoo Advanced Search screen
Docjax searches pdf, xls, doc, ppt in Yahoo and Google
http://www.docjax.com/
Bing.com sometimes picks up unique content
use command filetype: in your search strategy e.g. filetype:ppt car ownership UK
Slideshare for presentations
http://www.slideshare.net/

Multi-search engines
Zuula
http://www.zuula.com
runs your search through a range of search tools one by one
order can be customised
Browsys Finder (was Intelways/Crossengine)
http://www.browsys.com/finder
similar to Zuula but with more options

http://www.browsys.com/finder/ 1 December 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk Click on search tools one by one

Images - Google
Colour and similar image options now in main image search
only one colour can be selected

Images – Google Swirl
Image Swirl in Google Labs
http://image-swirl.googlelabs.com/
Google experiments with Image Swirl
http://www.rba.co.uk/wordpress/2009/11/19/google-experiments-with-image-swirl/
Seems to concentrate on patterns and shapes rather than colours

Images – Google Swirl 01/12/09 www.rba.co.uk

Images - Bing 01/12/09 www.rba.co.uk No page breaks – just keep scrolling down

Chromatik - Image search by colour http://chromatik.labs.exalead.com/
Colour choice now in standard Exalead image search
can select more than one colour
More options on Chromatik
Review at http://www.rba.co.uk/wordpress/2009/09/16/searching-for-images-by-colour/
Search by colour and keyword
Images from Flickr but can’t click through to original page

Multicolr Search Lab http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/
Search for up to 10 colours
No key word searching of content
Flickr creative commons images

Video & Audio
Search engines’ video/audio tabs
YouTube, Vimeo.com
Zuula - http://www.zuula.com/
click on the video tab
Browsys Finder
http://www.browsys.com/finder/
click on the video tab
Truveo – http://www.truveo.com/
country versions available
Odeo - http://www.odeo.com/
Podcasts associated with news stories on e.g. BBC, The Guardian, New Scientist, Nature etc.

News videos – Blinkx.com 01/12/09 www.rba.co.uk

Voxalead http://voxaleadnews.labs.exalead.com/
Speech to text technology – search inside videos

iTunes U – videos and podcasts
e.g. Warwick University http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/itunesu/

Blogs & Twitter
For up to the minute news
Reputation monitoring, competitive and competitor intelligence
Google Blogsearch
http://www.google.com/blogsearch
Blogpulse
http://www.blogpulse.com/
click on trends to see graph of how often your terms are mentioned in the postings indexed by Blogpulse
Twitter search
http://search.twitter.com/
Twazzup
http://www.twazzup.com/

LinkedIn 01/12/09 www.rba.co.uk

123People.com
Searches
image sections of major search engines
Flickr
Facebook
MySpace
LinkedIn
blogs
web
videos
news

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