Advanced Internet searching

Advanced Internet Searching Phil Bradley http://www.philb.com Summer 2011

Types of search engine
Free text
Google, Yahoo, Bing,
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
Icerocket, surchur, twitter
“ The others”

Why use Google?

Timeline

Reading level

Dictionary

Social

Nearby

Visited pages

Not yet visited

Related searches

Sites with images

Time limited

Page previews

Cached version

Basic search techniques Implied ‘AND’ Phrase Exclude/NOT Additional terms Changing position More additional terms

More search options: ~

More search options: *

Proximity Search: AROUND(x)

site:.gov.uk

site:<URL>

Filetype: pdf, doc

Filetype:

filetype: all options

Date, usage rights etc

Creative commons

Search preferences
Language
Safesearch filtering
Google Instant
# of results per page – 10, 20, 30, 50, 100
Results window
Blocked sites

Google images

Similar images

Images by colour

Imagesize:

Types of image: face

Colour of images

Enhanced ‘did you mean?’

Enhanced Maps

Google Instant

Realtime www.google.com/realtime

One trick ponies
movies location

http://translate.google.com/

Google custom search engines http://www.google.com/cse/

Faganfinder.com/google/

Why not use Google?

Ranking order
Search term in title, header, URL
Anchor text
1 st paragraph
Frequency
Speed of website
Country version
Personalisation on/off
# of link

Automatic ‘corrections’

Google knows best! http://bit.ly/kBGqIg

Incorrect counts

Serving many pages, single sites

Personalisation

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

Duckduckgo

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

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

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

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

Spacetime 3D http://search.spacetime.com/

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

Simploos http://beta.simploos.com/

Nexplore http://www.nexplore.com/

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

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

Blind search:which is best?

http://blindsearch.fejus.com/

Similar sites http://www.similarpages.com

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

Multimedia engines
Audio Visual
Image
Sound

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

Sounds
Soungle http://soungle.com/

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

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

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

Openbook

IceRocket

surchur

Addictomatic

Twitter Advanced

News collation resources Flipboard http://flipboard.com/

Zite http://www.zite.com

Pulse.news http://www.alphonsolabs.com/about

Trunk.ly

Some new engines

People search

Blekko

Worldometers.info

Suggestionchain.com

Lanyrd.com

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

Numberquotes.com

BananaSlug http://bananaslug.com/

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

Evaluating sites

Thedogisland

Federal Vampire & Zombie Agency

History of a Victorian Robot

Thank you!
http://www.philb.com/whichengine.htm
http://www.philbradley.typepad.com/
http://www.slideshare.net/philbradley/
[email_address]

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