Key Google search functions and alternative search engines

1. Advanced Internet Searching
Phil Bradley
http://www.philb.com
Winter 2013

2. Online resources
• Pearltree at http://bit.ly/1axJe13
• Website
http://www.philb.com/searchenginespearl.htm

3. Types of search engine
• Free text
– Google, Yahoo, Bing,
• Directory
– Open Directory
• Multi/Meta search
– Trovando
– Browsys

4. Types of search engine
• Site/Subject specific
– BT directory, site search engines
• Hidden/Invisible web
– DeepDyve, Infomine
• Social search engines
– Icerocket, Topsy, Socialmention
• “The others”

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

8. More search options: *

9. Proximity Search: AROUND(x)

10. site:

11. site:.gov.uk

12. site:<URL>

13. link:

14. info:

15. related:

16. Advanced search: where is it?
https://www.google.com/advanced_search

17. Advanced search

18. Advanced search cont

19. Filetype:

20. Filetype: pdf, doc

21. filetype: all options

22. Creative commons

23. Search preferences
• Language
• Safesearch filtering
• Google Instant
• # of results per page – 10, 20, 30, 50, 100
• Results window
• Blocked sites

24. Google Knowledge Chart

25. Why else use Google?

27. Reading level

28. Dictionary

29. Nearby

30. Visited pages

31. Not yet visited

32. Related searches

33. Time limited

35. Cached version

40. Google images

42. Google images

44. Size

45. Colour

46. Type

47. Combine the options

48. Imagesize:

49. Enhanced Maps

50. Google carousel

51. Google Instant

52. One trick ponies
• movies location

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

57. Google Tools you didn’t know
about
• Ngram viewer

58. Google correlate

59. Google trends

60. Google public data

61. Google Sky

62. Google Mars & Moon

63. Google Earth

64. Google Scholar

65. Google Books

66. Why Google is poor

67. Google knows best ‘did you mean?’

70. Ranking order
• Search term in title, header, URL
• Anchor text
• 1st paragraph
• Frequency
• Speed of website
• Country version
• Personalisation on/off
• # of link

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

72. Incorrect counts

73. Serving many pages, single sites

74. Personalisation

76. Alternative search engines
• Free text
• Directory
• Multi/Meta
• Social media
• Visual results
• Real time
• Weblog

77. Bing

78. Bingiton.com

79. Duckduckgo

80. Blekko

81. Exalead
• http://www.exalead.co.uk/search

83. FindHow: the How-To search engine

84. FindHow: writing and speaking

85. Slikk

86. Slikk multisearch

87. Preview, search onsite

88. Preview various screens

89. Zanran: Google for data

90. Zanran results page

91. Display tables

92. Alternative.to

94. Who stole my pictures?

95. Obtain a list & compare

96. Visual.ly

97. Icon Finder

98. Search results

99. Yahoo Directory
• http://dir.yahoo.com/
DEAD!

100. Dmoz The open Directory

101. Multi/meta search
• Trovando http://www.trovando.it/

102. Trovando results

103. Soovle

104. Visual search engines
• Redzee http://redz.com/

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

106. Category based engines
• Carrot Clustering http://search.carrot2.org/

107. Comparing results
• Thumbshots ranking
http://www.thumbshots.com/Products/ThumbshotsImages/Ranking.aspx

108. Blind search:which is best?

109. http://blindsearch.fejus.com/

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

111. News/Date
DEAD??
• Silobreaker http://news.silobreaker.com/

112. Newsmap
http://www.newsmap.jp/

113. Newslookup
http://www.newslookup.com/

114. 10x10
http://tenbyten.org/10x10.html

115. Newsnow
http://www.newsnow.co.uk/h/

116. Multimedia engines
• Audio Visual
• Image
• Sound

117. As well as YouTube...
• Trooker http://www.trooker.com/

118. Sounds
• Soungle http://soungle.com/

119. Images (as well as Flickr)
• Tag Galaxy http://www.taggalaxy.de/

121. Social media
• Social Mention
http://www.socialmention.com/

122. IceRocket

123. Addictomatic

124. Twitter Advanced

125. Topsy

126. News collation resources
• Register, link to your social media accounts
and pull in data based on what your contacts
are talking about.

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

128. FlipBoard

130. Pulse News

132. News curation via the web

133. News.me daily digest

134. Scoop.it

135. Sulia http://sulia.com

136. Swayy http://app.swayy.co/

137. Nuzzel
http://nuzzel.com/philbradley

138. Searching Facebook

139. Introducing Graph Search

140. Discovery via friends
• People who share your interests
• People who like your photographs
• People who live in Manchester and like
restaurants in Leeds
• Films that your married friends like
• Books that my relatives like
• Photographs taken in London before 2003

141. Discovery from strangers
• People who like wargaming
– and who live in Basildon
• People who like eHarmony (a dating site)
– And who are married
• Pastors who like Ann Summers (an adult store)
• People who like Alcoholics Anonymous
– And who work for Microsoft
– Or who work for Google

142. In other words
• With Graph Search you can look up anything
that has been shared with you on Facebook
• Other people can find things you have shared
with them

143. Privacy issues
• Control who sees your Profile on the About
Tab
• Review photographs that you have shared or
been tagged in
• Review your posts with location tags in your
activity log

144. Using Graph Search

149. However...
• It’s surprising what you can actually find out...

153. But hang on!
• How trustworthy are these results?

154. Let’s get back on track

160. Concerns
• Should I worry about blurring out faces etc?
• After all, it IS public data. Isn’t it?
• Do these people know that it’s public?
• What responsibility, if any, do I have for or
with their data?
• At what point do we need worry about linking
A + B data to get C, which may be private?

161. More concerns
• Up to what point can we extrapolate?
• Does ‘liberal minded’ in a ‘complicated
relationship’ mean something that others
might think is a bit sleazy?
• If we don’t think so, what about other people
who will?

162. Targeting selling
• Easy to find all the people who like Argos
• Then corrolate to those who also like
gardening
• Then who live in a particular area
• Promote a 20% off offer on lawnmowers!
• Is this acceptable? After all, it’s advertising
they might actually want!

163. Getting Graph Search
If this is what you’re seeing, then you don’t have access to Graph Search

164. Click on the cog option

165. Account settings, General Account

166. Save and you’re done.

167. LinkedIn

168. Twitter

169. Twitter Search

170. Social bookmarking

171. My feed from my network

172. Diigo

173. Pinterest

174. Some new engines

175. Junoba

176. Find people on G+
http://www.gglpls.com/

177. Visual.ly

178. Polyfetch http://polyfetch.com

179. Million short
http://gb.millionshort.com/

180. Worldometers.info

181. Numberquotes.com

182. BananaSlug http://bananaslug.com/

183. Benosey

184. And finally...
• Wayback Machine
http://www.archive.org/index.php

185. Thank you!
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