Advanced Internet Searching
Phil Bradleyhttp://www.philb.com
Autumn 2012 Online at: http://slidesha.re/tBuhe7
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
Google Knowledge Chart
Why else use Google?
Reading level
Dictionary
Social
Nearby
Visited pages
Not yet visited
Related searches
Sites with images
Time limited
Page previews
Google+ results
Google + and Knowledge Graph
Authors
Cached version
Google images
Google images
Similar images
Images by colour
Imagesize:
Types of image: face
Colour of images
Google knows best ‘did you mean?’
Enhanced Maps
Google carousel
Google Instant
One trick ponies• movies location
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• 1st paragraph• Frequency• Speed of website• Country version• Personalisation on/off• # of link
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
Bing
Duckduckgo
Blekko
Blekko/Facebook
Create your own slashtag
Exalead
• http://www.exalead.co.uk/search
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/
Dmoz The open Directory
Multi/meta search
• Browsys http://www.browsys.com/search/• Trovando http://www.trovando.it/
Browsys results
Trovando results
Visual search engines
• Redzee http://redz.com/
Spacetime 3D http://search.spacetime.com/
Simploos http://beta.simploos.com/
Category based engines
• Carrot Clustering http://search.carrot2.org/
Comparing results
• Thumbshots ranking http://www.thumbshots.com/Products/ThumbshotsImages/Ranking.aspx
Blind search:which is best?
http://blindsearch.fejus.com/
Blekko /monte
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/
IceRocket
surchur
Addictomatic
Twitter Advanced
News collation resourcesFlipboard http://flipboard.com/
Zite http://www.zite.com
Zite top stories
Pulse News
News curation via the web
News.me daily digest
Scoop.it
Sulia http://sulia.com
More on social media search
Summer of 2012
Autumn of 2012
Facebook: People
Facebook: Pages
Facebook: Places
Facebook: Events
Facebook: Groups
Facebook: Library pages
Twitter Search
Social bookmarking
My feed from my network
Diigo
Some new engines
Visual.ly
Procog.com
Polyfetch http://polyfetch.com
Million short http://gb.millionshort.com/
People search
Worldometers.info
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
Contact:
• This presentation is online at• [email protected]• http://www.philb.com• @philbradley
Thank you!
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