Advanced Internet Searching Phil Bradley http://www.philb.com November 2009

Types of search engine Free text Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask Directory Yahoo, Open Directory Multi/Meta search Trovando Browsys

Free text

Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask

Directory

Yahoo, Open Directory

Multi/Meta search

Trovando

Browsys

Types of search engine Site/Subject specific BT directory, site search engines Hidden/Invisible web Complete planet Social search engines Collecta, surchur, twitter “ The others”

Site/Subject specific

BT directory, site search engines

Hidden/Invisible web

Complete planet

Social search engines

Collecta, surchur, twitter

“ The others”

Why use Google?

Wonder Wheel

Timeline

Even more...

Advanced search

Other options “ double quotes for a phrase” - to exclude + for exact word ~ synonyms Define: * wildword (three ** mice) Site:

“ double quotes for a phrase”

- to exclude + for exact word

~ synonyms

Define:

* wildword (three ** mice)

Site:

...and more Link: pages that link to specified page Info: information about a site Related: pages related to a site Cache: Cached version of a page/site Allinanchor: words in anchor text Allintitle: terms in the title Inurl: terms appear in the URL

Link: pages that link to specified page

Info: information about a site

Related: pages related to a site

Cache: Cached version of a page/site

Allinanchor: words in anchor text

Allintitle: terms in the title

Inurl: terms appear in the URL

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

http://similar-images.googlelabs.com/

Better search refinements

Longer ‘snippets’

Imagesize:

Types of image

Colour of images

Enhanced ‘did you mean?’

Enhanced Maps

Change your own results

Searchwiki

Searchwiki results

In Quotes

In Quotes

Google Fast Flip

One trick ponies <location> movies

<location> movies

Google custom search engines

Google Squared

Google Caffeine

Creative commons

Why not use Google?

Alternative search engines Free text Directory Multi/Meta Social media Visual results Real time Weblog

Free text

Directory

Multi/Meta

Social media

Visual results

Real time

Weblog

Exalead http://www.exalead.co.uk/search

http://www.exalead.co.uk/search

Yahoo Directory http://dir.yahoo.com/

http://dir.yahoo.com/

Multi/meta search Browsys http://www.browsys.com/search/ Trovando http://www.trovando.it/

Browsys http://www.browsys.com/search/

Trovando http://www.trovando.it/

Visual search engines Redzee http://redz.com/

Redzee http://redz.com/

Touchgraph http://www.touchgraph.com/TGGoogleBrowser.html

http://www.touchgraph.com/TGGoogleBrowser.html

Category based engines Carrot Clustering http://search.carrot2.org/

Carrot Clustering http://search.carrot2.org/

Clusty http://clusty.com/

Comparing results Thumbshots ranking http://www.thumbshots.org/

Thumbshots ranking http://www.thumbshots.org/

TripleMe http://www.tripleme.com/

Similar sites Web Insuggest http://web.insuggest.com/

Web Insuggest http://web.insuggest.com/

Similicious http://www.similicio.us/

News/Date Silobreaker http://www.silobreaker.com/

Silobreaker http://www.silobreaker.com/

By Date Grokker http://live.grokker.com/

Grokker http://live.grokker.com/

Multimedia engines Audio Visual Image Sound

Audio Visual

Image

Sound

As well as YouTube... Trooker http://www.trooker.com/

Trooker http://www.trooker.com/

Sounds Soungle http://soungle.com/

Soungle http://soungle.com/

Images (as well as Flickr) Tag Galaxy http://www.taggalaxy.de/

Tag Galaxy http://www.taggalaxy.de/

People related content Spock http://www.spock.com

Spock http://www.spock.com

Blogs Google blog search http://blogsearch.google.com/

Google blog search http://blogsearch.google.com/

Social media Social Mention http://www.socialmention.com/

Social Mention http://www.socialmention.com/

Collecta

IceRocket

surchur

OneRiot

Scoopler

Addictomatic

Twitter Advanced

And finally... Wayback Machine http://www.archive.org/index.php

Wayback Machine http://www.archive.org/index.php

BananaSlug http://bananaslug.com/

More resources: Which search engine when? My Search weblog Web search engines Alternative search engines

Which search engine when?

My Search weblog

Web search engines

Alternative search engines

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