1. Advanced Internet Searching
Phil Bradley
http://www.philb.com
Winter 2012-13

2. Going... Going... How many?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/leviphotos/2332987961/

3. Types of search engine
• Free text
– Google, Yahoo, Bing,
• Directory
– Yahoo, Open Directory
• Multi/Meta search
– Trovando
– Browsys

4. 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”

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

8. More search options: ~

9. More search options: *

10. Proximity Search: AROUND(x)

11. site:

12. site:.gov.uk

13. site:<URL>

14. link:

15. info:

16. related:

17. Advanced search: where is it?

18. Advanced search

19. Advanced (cont)

20. Specific options: terms appearing,
safe search

23. Specific options: reading level

25. Specific options: filetype

28. Specific options: usage rights

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

32. Google Knowledge Chart

33. Why else use Google?

34. Search options in search

35. Personal results

36. Verbatim

37. Dictionary

38. Nearby

39. Visited pages

40. Not yet visited

41. Related searches

42. Sites with images
GONE

43. Time limited

44. Page previews
GONE

45. Google+ results

46. Google + and Knowledge Graph

47. Authors

48. Cached version

50. Google images

52. Google images

53. Similar images

54. Images by colour

55. Imagesize:

56. Types of image: face

57. Colour of images

58. Google carousel

59. Google Instant

60. One trick ponies
• movies location

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

65. Google Scholar

66. ‘Your citations’

67. Google Books

68. Google Ngram Viewer

69. Google Zeitgeist 2012

70. Faganfinder.com/google/

71. Soople.com

72. Why not use Google?

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

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

76. Incorrect counts

77. Serving many pages, single sites

78. Personalisation

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

81. Bing

82. Duckduckgo

83. Blekko

84. Blekko/Facebook

85. Create your own slashtag

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

88. Boounce

90. Boounce

94. FindHow: the How-To search engine

95. FindHow: writing and speaking

96. Zanran: Google for data

97. Zanran results page

98. Display tables

99. Alternative.to

101. Who stole my pictures?

102. Obtain a list & compare

103. Visual.ly

104. Icon Finder

105. Search results

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

107. Dmoz The open Directory

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

109. Browsys results

110. Trovando results

111. SLIKK! (aka SearchLion)

112. SLIKK! multisearch

113. Preview, search onsite

114. Wiinkz

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

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

117. Simploos
http://beta.simploos.com/

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

119. Comparing results
• Thumbshots ranking
http://www.thumbshots.com/Products/ThumbshotsImages/Ranking.aspx

120. Blind search:which is best?

121. http://blindsearch.fejus.com/

122. Blekko /monte

124. Similar sites
http://www.similarpages.com

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

126. Facts and figures

128. Multimedia engines
• Audio Visual
• Image
• Sound

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

130. Sounds
• Soungle http://soungle.com/

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

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

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

135. IceRocket

136. Addictomatic

137. Twitter Advanced

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

139. Zite http://www.zite.com

140. Zite top stories

141. FlipBoard

143. Pulse News

145. News curation via the web

146. News.me daily digest

147. Scoop.it

148. Sulia http://sulia.com

149. More on social media search

150. Summer of 2012

151. Autumn of 2012

154. Facebook: People

155. Facebook: Pages

156. Facebook: Places

157. Facebook: Events

158. Facebook: Groups

159. Facebook: Library pages

160. Facebook Graph Search

161. LinkedIn

162. Twitter

163. Twitter Search

164. Social bookmarking

165. My feed from my network

166. Diigo

167. Pinterest

168. Some new engines

169. Soovle

170. Find People on Plus (.com)

171. Mamuna

172. Jawoco

173. Symbols

174. Procog.com

175. Polyfetch http://polyfetch.com

176. Million short
http://gb.millionshort.com/

177. People search

178. Worldometers.info

179. Lanyrd.com

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

181. Numberquotes.com

182. BananaSlug http://bananaslug.com/

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

184. Evaluating sites

186. Thedogisland

187. Federal Vampire & Zombie Agency

188. History of a Victorian Robot

189. Contact:
• This presentation is online at
• philb@philb.com
• http://www.philb.com
• @philbradley

190. Thank you!
• http://www.philb.com/whichengine.htm
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