Internet Search: a challenging and ever changing landscape [Archive]

6 October 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk Internet Search: a challenging and ever changing landscape CILIP in the Thames Valley, 6 October 2009 [email_address] , Twitter: karenblakeman Blog: http://www.rba.co.uk/wordpress/ http://www.slideshare.net/karenblakeman Photo: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/597631 © Copyright Andrew Smith and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence . This presentation is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License

Comments before we start
I have annotated some of the slides in this presentation with extracts from my blog postings and new comments. As many of the slides are screen shots make sure you check out the notes.
I have been trying to add a narration but cannot get it to work in Office 2007 – I may have sussed it by the time I make the presentation generally available (no promises!)
Apologies if I have missed out your favourite new gizmo but we have limited time for this session.
Blatant advertising warning: If you want to learn more and have time to play with these tools I am running a workshop in London on 29th October 2009. Details on http://www.rba.co.uk/training/searching.htm
6 October 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk

What’s happening with search
Lots!
New services and products from Google
Live.com re-launched as Bing
Visualisation of search results
New specialist search tools
Web 2.0 and social media included in the standard ‘search mix’
forget about the labels and jargon
for serious research this is no longer an option it is an essential part of your information search strategy
you go to where the conversations are
you go to where the information is

Google – What’s New
Show options

Google – Options, date and timeline 6 October 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk

Google – related searches 6 October 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk

Google Wonderwheel 6 October 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk

Google – more shopping sites 6 October 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk

Google Images - Options 6 October 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk

Chromatik - Image search by colour http://chromatik.labs.exalead.com/
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

Google Similar Images
http://similar-images.googlelabs.com/

Creative Commons and public domain images
Karen Blakeman's Blog Free-to-use images might not be
http://www.rba.co.uk/wordpress/2009/07/16/free-to-use-images-might-not-be/
Google advanced image search
use the pull down menu under usage rights
Flickr Creative Commons
http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons
Wikimedia Commons
http://commons.wikimedia.org/
MorgueFile.com
http://www.morguefile.com/
Most of the images on US government web sites (but do check)
Nasa
http://www.nasa.gov/

Google Caffeine http://www.comparecaffeine.com/ 6 October 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk

Google Squared
Google Labs http://labs.google.com/
http://www.google.com/squared
Tries to compile a table (squares) from the information in the pages on your results page
But web pages unstructured and tables are structured
Can edit, remove or manually add information
Can add or remove columns
It does give you the source and you can view the document
Can now sort table by data in a column e.g. heights of mountains
Can now export tables as csv files

Google Squared 6 October 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk

Exalead Labs – http://labs.exalead.com/
http://philbradley.typepad.com/phil_bradleys_weblog/2009/09/exalead-laboratories.html
Chromatik – search by key word and colour
Constellations
Interesting visualisation of search results
Miiget – for celebrities
Tweepz – Twitter search for people
Voxalead News – searches for your terms within news videos
Wikifier (?)

Exalead Labs - Constellations 6 October 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk

Miiget – for celebrities 6 October 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk

Tweepz – people on Twitter 6 October 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk

Yahoo!
http://www.yahoo.co.uk/
http://search.yahoo.co.uk/ http://search.yahoo.com/
May start using Bing web search next year
Home page seem to change every few months
Now includes options to limit search to selected networking sites
Search pad for recording searches & notes, Explore Concepts

Bing
http://www.bing.com/ , http://www.bing.co.uk/ (was live.com)
“ decision engine”
Results tend to be more consumer oriented
Seems to have the most up to date database and possibly the most extensive database of web pages (although we were told at a London meeting that they only have 10 billion pages!)
Good image search option
Maps http://maps.bing.com/
New interface but no improvement in advanced search screen
Results vary considerably depending on the country version
May be issues regarding censorship see Phil Bradley’s blog
Bing: excluding results from UK version?
http://philbradley.typepad.com/phil_bradleys_weblog/2009/06/bing-excluding-results-from-uk-version.html

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

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

Zuula
http://www.zuula.com/

http://www.browsys.com/finder/ 6 October 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk Click on search tools one by one

DocJax
http://www.docjax.com/
Search for pdf, ppt, doc, xls files in Yahoo and Google

Wolfram Alpha
http://www.wolframalpha.com/
“ Computational knowledge engine”
“ 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. structure of galactose
Have to ask the question in the right way
Good for maths homework!

Wolfram Alpha
Structure of Galactose – EPIC FAIL!

Blogs
For expert opinion and up to the minute news
Blog postings often indexed within minutes of publication
Google search, click on Show options on results page and select Blogs, or select last 24 hours or past week under date/time options
Google Blogsearch
http://www.google.com/blogsearch
includes web pages that have RSS feeds e.g. news sites that are not strictly speaking blogs
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
For seeing what people are saying about a company, organisation, product, person or conference
Reputation monitoring
Trouble –shooting
http://search.twitter.com/
For older tweets use Google Advanced Search and search within twitter.com under site/domain search

123People
http://www.123people.com/
Searches
image sections of major search engines
Flickr
Facebook
LinkedIn
Blogs
Web
Videos
Email addresses

Further information & keeping up to date
Information World Review (IWR) and IWR Blog
http://www.iwr.co.uk/ , http://blog.iwr.co.uk/
Phil Bradley’s Blog
http://philbradley.typepad.com/
Karen Blakeman’s Blog
http://www.rba.co.uk/wordpress/
Internet Resources Newsletter
http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/
Annual Online Information Exhibition, London, usually at the beginning of December
http://www.online-information.co.uk/
Extensive programme of free seminars, updates and master classes on the exhibition floor.

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