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    1. Search vertically
    2. What for? Choose the area of the Web you want to search
    3. Content-type search engines
    4. Why? Broad-based search tools cannot index everything Information comes in a wide variety of formats
    5. When? Complementary to broad-based search engines
    6. Looking for videos? Google Video Yahoo! Video YouTube DailyMotion
    7. Looking for images? Google Image Search Yahoo! Image Search Flickr for photos Tip: use Cooliris
    8. Looking for news? Google News Yahoo! News Ask News Reuters
    9. Looking for contacts? LinkedIn Spock Wink pipl
    10. Looking for documents? SlideShare: presentations Docstoc: Office, PDF, Open Office, Text documents Use filetype: filter in broad-based search engines
    11. Looking for shared bookmarks? del.icio.us Furl Ma.gnolia
    12. Looking for blogs or posts? Google Blog Search Ask Blog Search Technorati Blogpulse
    13. A new trend: micro-blogging Twitter Search Social Mention
    14. all in one place…
    15. Access internal sources using KP Contacts & experts Shared documents Internet bookmarks
    16. Regional search engines
    17. Why? Index confined to local Web sites
    18. When? Searching for local information or sources
    19. Where? A good place to start: www.searchengineguide.com/pages/Regional/ Try the regional: filter in Yahoo! Advanced Search module of broad-based search engines
    20. Subject search engines and databases
    21. Why? Most value to people interested in a specific field Lots of them offer access to the Deep Web
    22. When? Searching for more specific information
    23. A few examples Scientific: ScienceDirect, Scitopia.org Academic: Google Scholar Finance: Google or Yahoo! Finance Markets: Forrester
    24. Where? www.altsearchengines.com/category/verticals/ A good place to start though not categorized Use keywords like ‘search’, ‘databases’, ‘search engine’... preceded by a topical keyword Browse directories like the Librarian’s Internet Index Online College Blog Interesting list of resources to access the Deep Web though some are not up-to-date
    25. Google Coop Customizing your Search
    26. What? Build your very own custom search engines Tell Google exactly where to look Get relevant results only
    27. See examples at www.customsearchguide.com
    28. Downsides of Coop Some Websites remain un-accessible to crawlers Your custom search engines are static
    29. get dynamic
    30. Try some inside Knowledge Plaza
    31. Indeed, within Knowledge Plaza you can: Build a collaborative index of Websites Create on-the-fly search engines
    32. To take part in this collaborative index Import bookmarks from your browser Use the Knowledge Plaza browser bookmarklet Make results always more exhaustive and qualitative
    33. To search vertically in Knowledge Plaza Browse within the Plaza to locate a user or a workspace and use it as a search engine Jump to the Web module to get the full picture: select a few tags, a particular user and/or a whole workspace, and launch your query Results are more reliable because of human selection
    34. Jump to www.knowledgeplaza.be

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