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

FlipBoard

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

LinkedIn

Twitter

Twitter Search

Social bookmarking

My feed from my network

Diigo

Pinterest

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• philb@philb.com• http://www.philb.com• @philbradley

Thank you!

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