Search Track at IL - Greg Notess
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rowanfGreg Notess - New Search Strategies/Advanced Search Techniques
http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/features/ - tells you what features are available on various engines. (also undoc - Yahoo still has the various Inktomi commands available though not documented.)
http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/bookmarklets - has transfer search bookmarket that allows you to go from engine to engine without retyping the search.
Refine & Explore terms - Ask offer "expand search", Exalead ditto plus directory terms; Clusty gives you an idea about terms, Northern Lights is back with searching the business web - they narrow by clusters. Alltheweb (uses Yahoo db these day, may be subset) does live suggestions as you type.
Definitions Answers.com, wikipedia, education.yahoo.com/reference. Google box has "definitions" right below the search box.. goes to answers.com. also define:(word) in google search box.
Social bookmarking - What are the key sites?
del.icio.us - good starting places for techie bookmarks with # of users who have bookmarked the term (one word tags, eg webdesign rather than web design)
Furl - more professional users not necessarily tech-related. So you can look for business topics, etc.
Connotea (from Nature)
Field searching allows us to dig deeply instead of widely - site, inurl, country, etc.
Live.com (formerly MSN search) has "find macros" in "more" and you can create you own. Greg thinks Live updates more often and is worth looking at.
filetype:pdf at Google, live & Exalead
originurlextension:pdf at Yahoo
note that pdf indexing often misses first letters of a word - try searching with dropped first letter, eg "raq" instead of "iraq".
Exalead, "more" on the right gives what percent are in what file type and what language, etc. Might be interesting.
who links to a website link:http://loc.gov not site:loc.gov - find similar sites. Google, Live, Yahoo & Exalead all offer but Google is very incomplete. Yahoo or Live do better. Live also offers linkfromdomain:loc.gov site:.hr (where does loc link in croatia)
Exalead has proximity operators NEAR is w/n 16 words or you can do NEAR/# to define # of words.
http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/features/ - tells you what features are available on various engines. (also undoc - Yahoo still has the various Inktomi commands available though not documented.)
http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/bookmarklets - has transfer search bookmarket that allows you to go from engine to engine without retyping the search.
Refine & Explore terms - Ask offer "expand search", Exalead ditto plus directory terms; Clusty gives you an idea about terms, Northern Lights is back with searching the business web - they narrow by clusters. Alltheweb (uses Yahoo db these day, may be subset) does live suggestions as you type.
Definitions Answers.com, wikipedia, education.yahoo.com/reference. Google box has "definitions" right below the search box.. goes to answers.com. also define:(word) in google search box.
Social bookmarking - What are the key sites?
del.icio.us - good starting places for techie bookmarks with # of users who have bookmarked the term (one word tags, eg webdesign rather than web design)
Furl - more professional users not necessarily tech-related. So you can look for business topics, etc.
Connotea (from Nature)
Field searching allows us to dig deeply instead of widely - site, inurl, country, etc.
Live.com (formerly MSN search) has "find macros" in "more" and you can create you own. Greg thinks Live updates more often and is worth looking at.
filetype:pdf at Google, live & Exalead
originurlextension:pdf at Yahoo
note that pdf indexing often misses first letters of a word - try searching with dropped first letter, eg "raq" instead of "iraq".
Exalead, "more" on the right gives what percent are in what file type and what language, etc. Might be interesting.
who links to a website link:http://loc.gov not site:loc.gov - find similar sites. Google, Live, Yahoo & Exalead all offer but Google is very incomplete. Yahoo or Live do better. Live also offers linkfromdomain:loc.gov site:.hr (where does loc link in croatia)
Exalead has proximity operators NEAR is w/n 16 words or you can do NEAR/# to define # of words.
