Advanced Internet Searching Phil Bradley http://www.philb.com Autumn 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”
 
 
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:
site:.gov.uk
site:<URL>
link:
info:
related:
Advanced search: where is it?
Advanced search
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
Why else use Google?
 
Timeline
Reading level
Dictionary
Social
Nearby
Visited pages
Not yet visited
Related searches
Sites with images
Time limited
Page previews
Cached version
Google images
 
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
Google guesses (librarians research?)
Personalisation
 
Alternative search engines Free text Directory Multi/Meta  Social media Visual results Real time Weblog
Bing
Duckduckgo
Exalead  http://www.exalead.co.uk/search
 
Blekko
Create your own slashtag
Boounce
 
Boounce
 
 
 
FindHow: the How-To search engine
FindHow: writing and speaking
SearchLion
SearchLion multisearch
Preview, search onsite
Preview various screens
Zanran: Google for data
Zanran results page
Display tables
Alternative.to
 
Who stole my pictures?
Obtain a list & compare
Visual.ly
Icon Finder
Search results
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
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Advanced internet searching Autumn 2011