Picks Jan1 7

Slide 1: Phil’s weekly picks January 1 – 7 2008 http://www.philbradley.typepad.com

Slide 2: FuzzFind Web search • http://www.fuzzfind.com

Slide 3: Fuzzfind: • Multi/meta search engine checking Google, Yahoo, Live and del.icio.us

Slide 4: Google tips and tricks • Obscure Google search tricks from Lifehacker http://moourl.com/googletips

Slide 6: • cache:www.philb.com • -site:ebay.com –site:bizrate.com OR use http://www.givemebackmygoogle.com

Slide 7: • Faces: add &imgtype=face • Live.com (in images) filter:face

Slide 8: Earthfrisk • http://www.earthfrisk.org

Slide 9: • Meta/multi search engine, with GYMA searches • Image, Video, Maps, Directory • Vote, comment!

Slide 11: What’s open? • http://www.whatsopen.com/ • Find out what's hot at any given moment. Find out where your friends, or new friends are going.

Slide 12: My Sponsor • China Holidays • http://www.chinaholidays.com

Slide 13: Zuula Search • http://www.zuula.com/

Slide 14: • Multi/Meta search engine using GYM, Gigablast, Exalead, Alexa, Accoona and Mojeek. • Web, Images, Video, News, Blog, Jobs

Slide 15: Search for Video • http://www.searchforvideo.com/ • indexes online video clips from over 10,000 sources.

Slide 16: Sortfix • http://www.sortfix.com/ • Easy automated way of excluding/including search terms

Slide 18: Search Wikia • http://alpha.search.wikia.com/ • “We are aware that the quality of the search results is low.” • “A complete let down” “ miles behind the competition” “ yet another crappy search service”

Slide 19: Other items • Over 50 UK based search engines disappear in three years • The list is at http://www.philb.com/cse/unitedkingdom.htm • Google custom search engine on the fly

Slide 20: • I’ve added a – Web 2.0 resource search engine – UK Search engine • http://www.philb.com

Slide 21: List of URLs 1 • http://www.fuzzfind.com • http://moourl.com/googletips • http://www.earthfrisk.org • http://www.whatsopen.com/ • http://www.zuula.com/ • http://www.searchforvideo.com/ • http://www.sortfix.com/ • http://alpha.search.wikia.com/ • http://www.chinaholidays.com

Slide 22: List of URLs 2 • http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/06/wikia-search- • http://mashable.com/2008/01/06/wikia-search-miles-b • http://searchengineland.com/080107-131756.php • http://www.philb.com/cse/unitedkingdom.htm • http://www.google.com/coop/cse/onthefly • http://www.philb.com

Slide 23: Thank you! • I hope you enjoyed the presentation and found it useful. • Contact me at philb@philb.com or via my website at http://www.philb.com