New Search Strategies

New Search Strategies Advanced Techniques, Approaches, & Sources Internet Librarian 2006 By Greg R. Notess, SearchEngineShowdown.com

Advanced Search Techniques
Not always needed
Useful only for specific needs
But can then be very helpful

SE Reviews & Features Chart
searchengineshowdown.com /features
Overview chart for quick lookup
Each cell links to detailed review
Use it when you need the feature

1. Search Transfer
Between Search Engines
Between Databases at an Engine
How?
Tabs, Search Box, Bookmarklets

2. Refine & Explore Terms
Ask & Exalead: Look Right
Clusty: Top Results Folders (Left)
Business: Northern Light is Back

3. Search as You Type
Google Suggest
AlltheWeb Livesearch
Using Yahoo! Database

4. The Defining Moment
Answers.com
Wikipedia
Yahoo! Reference
define:term at Google

5. Search Societies
Tags at social bookmarking sites
Del.icio.us for tech and buzz
FURL for more professional?
Connotea for scientific

Field Searching
Restrict to a subset of Web
Dig deep instead of broad
site, inurl, country
Link searching
Explore link patterns on the Web

6. Basic Subset Searching
site:gov OR site:harvard.edu
At Google, Yahoo!, Live, Ask, etc.
Up to 200 at Gigablast
For other URL segments
inurl:somewhere.edu/library

7. Expanded Subset Searching
Rollyo
Yahoo! Database, create list
Live Macros
Combine domains with more

8. Filetype Searches
On Advanced Search Page –or-
filetype:pdf Google, Live, Exa
originurlextension:pdf
At Yahoo!

Filetype Tricks
Errors
Leave off first letter
Spaces between words
Exalead Analysis

9. Link Searching
link:http://ibm.com
Works at Google, Live, Yahoo!, Exa
Google is incomplete
Yahoo! & Live much more detailed
And can combine

And Brand New:
Live.com new operator
linkfromdomain:loc.gov site:hr

10. Beyond “Phrase Searching”
Proximity at Exalead
NEAR for 16 word proximity
NEAR/4 for 4 word proximity
Less control/precision at Google
” word1 * word2”

11. Cache to the Past
Multiple Sources
Each with a Specific Date
Find Dead, Downed, & Removed
History of Changes

Cache Details
Google, MSN, Gigablast, Ask, Exalead
Include Date of Crawl
Also at Yahoo!
No date
Wayback Machine archive.org
Many dates

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New Search Strategies

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