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Information UpdateInformation Update
December 2009December 2009
Inbar Yasur
www.hipusit.info
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What I will not cover:
• KeywordsKeywords
• AlertsAlerts
• Google Chrome ExtensionsGoogle Chrome Extensions
• Google & Competitors ToolsGoogle & Competitors Tools
• ImagesImages
• NewsNews
• FireFox Add onsFireFox Add ons
• Scholarly SearchScholarly Search
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KeywordsKeywords
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Google DefinitionGoogle Definition
http://www.google.com/
Google links to the definition in the blue bar that mentions the number of results.
Initially, Google linked to dictionary.com, then it switched to answers.com and now it uses its
own service: Google Dictionary.
Google updated the English dictionary with synonyms, antonyms, pronunciations, detailed
definitions and examples from Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary.
Google's dictionary lists the most recent 5 searches, you can star words, find related words
and definitions from the Web.
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Google DefinitionGoogle Definition
http://www.google.com/
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Thsrs – The Shorter ThesaurusThsrs – The Shorter Thesaurus
http://www.ironicsans.com/thsrs/
How can you intelligently get across a complex thought in just 140 characters without needing
to use ugly abbreviations (e.g. “w/o needing 2 use ugly abbrev’s”)?
If only there were a service that helps with the struggle of rewriting a 146-letter message to fit
in a 140 character limit.
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Thsrs – The Shorter ThesaurusThsrs – The Shorter Thesaurus
http://www.ironicsans.com/thsrs/
Well now there is: Thsrs, the thesaurus that only gives you synonyms shorter than the word
you’re looking up. Just enter one of the longer words in your message, and Thsrs will
suggest shorter words to use instead.
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LigerCatLigerCat
ligercat.ubio.org/
Search PubMed using words or even a DNA/protein sequence to create a tag
cloud showing an overview of important concepts and trends. LigerCat aggregates
multiple articles in PubMed, combining the associated MeSH descriptors into a cloud,
weighted by frequency
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AlertsAlerts
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Google Alerts – Feed me! – Not just for email anymoreGoogle Alerts – Feed me! – Not just for email anymore
http://www.google.com/alerts
Alerts have been delivered via email only, but those days are over…
Now your News, Web, Blog, Video, and Groups alerts are more easily accessible Through
Feeds.
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Google BlogsGoogle Blogs
http://blogsearch.google.com/
Google Blog Search now has RSS feeds available for its search results along with the older email alerts.
The Blog Search front page has also added two new sections on the right side:
• Hot Queries shows popular Blog Search queries
• Recent Posts features new posts from popular blog
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Google Chrome ExtensionsGoogle Chrome Extensions
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Google Chrome ExtensionsGoogle Chrome Extensions
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/
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Google Similar PagesGoogle Similar Pages
The Google Similar Pages browser extension allows you to quickly preview and explore
other pages that are similar to the one you are browsing -- on the fly!
When you click the Similar Pages button, your browser will send a search query to Google
to see if there are any similar pages for the page you are viewing.
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Google Similar PagesGoogle Similar Pages
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Aviary Screen CaptureAviary Screen Capture
Take a screenshot of any webpage and edit it directly in your browser with Aviary.com
applications.
This quick screen capture addon performs a screen capture of the visible portion of any
webpage and then open the capture INSTANTLY in a basic image editor where you can do:
• Markup (draw arrows and rectangles),
• Edit (crop, rotate and resize)
• Get the exact pixel colors of the image.
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Google TranslateGoogle Translate
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/aapbdbdomjkkjkaonfhkkikfgjllcleb
This extension adds a button to your browser toolbar.
Click the translate icon whenever you want to translate the page you're visiting.
The extension also automatically detects if the language of a page you're on is different from
the language you're using for your Google Chrome interface.
If it is, a banner appears at the top of the page. Click the Translate button in the banner to
have all the text on the page appear in the new language.
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Google ToolsGoogle Tools
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Google.com – “show Options”Google.com – “show Options”
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Google Flu TrendsGoogle Flu Trends
http://www.google.org/about/flutrends/how.html
Google has found that certain search terms are good indicators of flu activity.
Google Flu Trends uses aggregated Google search data to estimate current flu activity around
the world in near real-time.
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Google NewsGoogle News
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Google NewsGoogle News
news.google.com
Google News now displays the authors of some news stories.
• The author names are clickable, resulting in other stories by the same reporter.
• The News Advanced Search page added a field for author searches.
• The prefix of a u t h o r :
followed by the author's name in quotes can also be used.
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Google News Time Line ViewGoogle News Time Line View
newstimeline.google labs.com
Google News Timeline which shows titles, dates, links, pictures, and brief extracts for news stories;
TIME magazine stories and covers; and events from Wikipedia.
Specific keywords can be used to narrow the stories, and a specific date can be entered.
Additional sources for the timeline can be added using the "Add More Queries" link and can include
specific newspapers, magazines, blogs, sports scores, news searches, media, and Nobel prizes..
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Google News Time Line ViewGoogle News Time Line View
newstimeline.google labs.com
Google News Timeline which shows titles, dates, links, pictures, and brief extracts for news stories;
TIME magazine stories and covers; and events from Wikipedia.
Specific keywords can be used to narrow the stories, and a specific date can be entered.
Additional sources for the timeline can be added using the "Add More Queries" link and can include
specific newspapers, magazines, blogs, sports scores, news searches, media, and Nobel prizes..
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VoxaleadVoxalead
http://voxaleadnews.labs.exalead.com/
Voxalead is a technology demonstrator developed by the ExaLabs team that searches inside multimedia
content (audio and video). It uses a Speech-to-Text transcription module from LIMSI (IT Laboratory for
Mechanics and Engineering Sciences, an entity of CNRS) to transcribe speeches
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Images SearchImages Search
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Google Image SwirlGoogle Image Swirl
http://image-swirl.googlelabs.com/
Google News Timeline which shows titles, dates, links, pictures, and brief extracts for news stories;
TIME magazine stories and covers; and events from Wikipedia.
Specific keywords can be used to narrow the stories, and a specific date can be entered.
Additional sources for the timeline can be added using the "Add More Queries" link and can include
specific newspapers, magazines, blogs, sports scores, news searches, media, and Nobel prizes..
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Bing Image SearchBing Image Search
http://www.bing.com/images?FORM=Z9LH
No Page Brake – Just keep scrolling down
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Idee MulticolrIdee Multicolr
http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/#
• Search for up to 10 colors
• No key word searching of content
• Flicker Creative commons images
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FireFox Add onsFireFox Add ons
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Super SearchSuper Search
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/13308
over 160 of the top search engines and people searches in one convenient addon, including 67 searches
that can be done right from the toolbar, without having to visit each site and retype the name or search
term that you are searching.
For more info.For more info.
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Specialized Search enginesSpecialized Search engines
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Find DesignFind Design
http://finddesign.blinkr.net/
find:Design is a search engine powered via Google that has an emphasis on design related content from
news, portals, blogs, directories, media, podcasts, companies, portfolios and other design resources.
Why is it different than the normal Google search? Because when you perform a search here, Google
search the entire web but emphasize on design related sites.
How does Google know which sites are design related?
Through the Google coop framework, we set a list of design related sites and a group of keywords that
orient the Google search engine to find design related results.
And the best thing is that you can refine the results by labels that add a deeper filtering in the results.
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ChemspiderChemspider
www.chemspider.com
ChemSpider is a chemistry search engine. It has been built with the intention of aggregating and indexing
chemical structures and their associated information into a single searchable repository and make it
available to everybody, at no charge.
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The World is changing - Scholar SearchThe World is changing - Scholar Search
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TicTocs – Journal Tables of Contents ServiceTicTocs – Journal Tables of Contents Service
http://www.tictocs.ac.uk/
• Find 12,716 scholarly journal Table of Contents (TOCs) from 448 publishers.
• View the latest TOC for each journal.
• Link to the full text of 426,366 articles (where institutional or personal subscription allows).
• Export TOC feeds to popular feedreaders.
• Select and save journal titles to view future TOCs (Register to ensure your MyTOCs are permanently
saved).
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My favorite JournalsMy favorite Journals
http://www.myfavoritejournals.com/
• Find 12,716 scholarly journal Table of Contents (TOCs) from 448 publishers.
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DeepDyve’s Rent-to-Own ServiceDeepDyve’s Rent-to-Own Service
www.deepdyve.com
A California-based company with offices in Shanghai, announced a new content delivery initiative on Oct.
27, 2009, that allows people to rent premium journal articles for as low as 99 cents per article. Aimed at
knowledge workers who may be individual consumers or scientific professionals, DeepDyve's rental
system draws from its aggregation of more than 30 million articles from thousands of professional
publications, primarily in the biomedical, scientific, and technical areas.
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DeepDyve’s Rent-to-Own ServiceDeepDyve’s Rent-to-Own Service
www.deepdyve.com
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DeepDyveDeepDyve
www.deepdyve.com
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EbraryEbrary
http://www.ebrary.com/corp/
Users can search and read more than 20,000 full text books online (recent titles) in a wide array of
disciplines from a variety of publishers. The financial aspect only comes in to play if you want to print or
save a page.
When you register for the service (it's free), you have to place a minimum of $5 on a credit card. The
money is ONLY used if you decide to print or copy a page. Each page costs a quarter to print or save. A
unique payment plan for sure.
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EbraryEbrary
http://www.ebrary.com/corp/
In addition to the 20,000 books from ebrary Discover, the company provides another collection of free e-
books and this collection is aimed for info pros.
The ebrary Library and KM Center is home to over 140 full text searchable (and free) e-books and other
'authoritative materials.‘ Sample titles run from Glut: Mastering Information Through The Ages to
Practical Guide to Knowledge Management and include such items as Development of Digital Libraries:
An American Perspective to Closing an Era: Historical Perspectives on Modern Archives & Records
Management.
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Thank you!
