Updated Autumn 2011

1. Advanced Internet Searching Phil Bradley http://www.philb.com Summer 2011

6. Why use Google?

8. Timeline

9. Reading level

10. Dictionary

11. Social

12. Nearby

13. Visited pages

14. Not yet visited

15. Related searches

16. Sites with images

17. Time limited

18. Page previews

19. Cached version

20. Basic search techniques Implied ‘AND’ Phrase Exclude/NOT Additional terms Changing position More additional terms

21. More search options: ~

22. More search options: *

23. Proximity Search: AROUND(x)

24. site:

25. site:.gov.uk

26. site:<URL>

27. link:

28. info:

29. related:

30. Advanced search

31. Filetype: pdf, doc

32. Filetype:

33. filetype: all options

34. Date, usage rights etc

35. Creative commons

37. Google images

39. Google images

40. Similar images

41. Images by colour

42. Imagesize:

43. Types of image: face

44. Colour of images

45. Enhanced ‘did you mean?’

46. Enhanced Maps

47. Google Instant

49. Realtime www.google.com/realtime

53. http://translate.google.com/

54. Google custom search engines http://www.google.com/cse/

55. Faganfinder.com/google/

56. Why not use Google?

59. Automatic ‘corrections’

60. Google knows best! http://bit.ly/kBGqIg

61. Incorrect counts

62. Serving many pages, single sites

63. Personalisation

66. Bing

67. Duckduckgo

73. Spacetime 3D http://search.spacetime.com/

75. Simploos http://beta.simploos.com/

76. Nexplore http://www.nexplore.com/

79. Blind search:which is best?

80. http://blindsearch.fejus.com/

81. Similar sites http://www.similarpages.com

90. Openbook

91. IceRocket

92. surchur

93. Addictomatic

94. Twitter Advanced

95. News collation resources Flipboard http://flipboard.com/

96. Zite http://www.zite.com

97. Pulse.news http://www.alphonsolabs.com/about

98. Trunk.ly

99. Some new engines

100. People search

101. Blekko

102. Worldometers.info

103. Suggestionchain.com

104. Lanyrd.com

106. Numberquotes.com

107. BananaSlug http://bananaslug.com/

109. Evaluating sites

111. Thedogisland

112. Federal Vampire & Zombie Agency

113. History of a Victorian Robot