Advanced Internet Searching

Phil Bradleyhttp://www.philb.com

November 2009

Types of search engine

• Free text– Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask

• 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– Collecta, surchur, twitter

• “The others”

Why use Google?

Wonder Wheel

Timeline

Even more...

Advanced search

Other options

• “double quotes for a phrase”• - to exclude + for exact word• ~ synonyms• Define:• * wildword (three ** mice)• Site:

...and more

• Link: pages that link to specified page• Info: information about a site• Related: pages related to a site• Cache: Cached version of a page/site• Allinanchor: words in anchor text• Allintitle: terms in the title• Inurl: terms appear in the URL

Google similar images

• http://similar-images.googlelabs.com/

Better search refinements

Longer ‘snippets’

Imagesize:

Types of image

Colour of images

Enhanced ‘did you mean?’

Enhanced Maps

Change your own results

Searchwiki

Searchwiki results

In Quotes

In Quotes

Google Fast Flip

One trick ponies• <location> movies

Google custom search engines

Google Squared

Google Caffeine

Creative commons

Why not use Google?

Alternative search engines

• Free text• Directory• Multi/Meta • Social media• Visual results• Real time• Weblog

Exalead

• http://www.exalead.co.uk/search

Yahoo Directory

• http://dir.yahoo.com/

Multi/meta search

• Browsys http://www.browsys.com/search/• Trovando http://www.trovando.it/

Visual search engines

• Redzee http://redz.com/

Touchgraph

• http://www.touchgraph.com/TGGoogleBrowser.html

Category based engines

• Carrot Clustering http://search.carrot2.org/

Clusty http://clusty.com/

Comparing results

• Thumbshots ranking http://www.thumbshots.org/

TripleMe http://www.tripleme.com/

Similar sites

• Web Insuggest http://web.insuggest.com/

Similicious http://www.similicio.us/

News/Date

• Silobreaker http://www.silobreaker.com/

By Date

• Grokker http://live.grokker.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/

People related content

• Spock http://www.spock.com

Blogs

• Google blog search http://blogsearch.google.com/

Social media

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

Collecta

IceRocket

surchur

OneRiot

Scoopler

Addictomatic

Twitter Advanced

And finally...

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

BananaSlug http://bananaslug.com/

More resources:

• Which search engine when?

• My Search weblog

• Web search engines

• Alternative search engines

Thank you!

• http://www.philb.com/whichengine.htm • http://www.philbradley.typepad.com/ • http://www.slideshare.net/philbradley/ • philb@philb.com