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My most recent version of the Advanced Internet Search engine set. Just keeps getting bigger - sorry!
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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?
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• 1st 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
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
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 resourcesFlipboard 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
Thank you!
• http://www.philb.com/whichengine.htm • http://www.philbradley.typepad.com/ • http://www.slideshare.net/philbradley/ • [email protected]
