information updates january 2011

Updates January 2011

Inbar Yasur

www.hipusit.info

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Google Tools

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Boutiques: A Visual Fashion Shopping Spree

http://www.boutiques.com/

• Visual shopping experience created by Google.

• Browse for clothing, bags and accessories.

• One of the most aesthetically pleasing shopping sites.

• Create your own mini boutiques.

• View similar items or go directly to the merchant to buy.

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Google Body Browser

http://bodybrowser.googlelabs.com/

• Google Maps for the human body

• Explore a body in 3D. 

• The Google Body Browser is ONLY accessible using Google's Chrome

Browser*

or if you're running the Firefox 4 beta. It's also available from the Chrome 9 Dev

Channel and Chrome Canary Build

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Google Body Browser

http://bodybrowser.googlelabs.com/

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Google Books Ngram Viewer

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/

• Google used some of the data obtained from 15 million scanned books to

build Google Books Ngram Viewer.

• "The datasets are based on a subset of that corpus, weighing in at 500 billion

words from 5.2 million books in Chinese, English, French, German, Russian,

and Spanish.

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Google Books Ngram Viewer

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/

• The datasets contain phrases of up to five words with counts of how often they

occurred in each year. (...)

• The Ngram Viewer lets you graph and compare phrases from these datasets

over time, showing how their usage has waxed and waned over the years

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Google Books Ngram Viewer

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/

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Google Books Ngram Viewer

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/

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Google Books Ngram Viewer

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/

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Google Advanced Search – New Search Option “Reading Level”

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Google Advanced Search – New Search Option “Reading Level”

…the numbers do not add up to 100%

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Google Advanced Search – New Search Option “Reading Level”

• Google does not give any info about how it calculates the reading level and it

has nothing to do with the reading age that publishers assign to books.

• Sentence structure?

• Grammar?

• Length of sentences?

• Length of the document?

• Terminology used?

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New Google Search Operator – AROUND(n)

• An undocumented search operator called AROUND(n) that will help you find

documents where the distance between two search terms is around ‘n.’

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New Google Search Operator – AROUND(n)

• AROUND might be useful when:

• The documents are rather long (think book-length articles)

• Searching for quotes, speeches or a song that’s stuck in your head, but you

can only think of a few words from it.

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Google Global Market Finder

http://translate.google.com/globalmarketfinder/index.html

• Helps discover keywords and translate those keywords into other international

markets.

• Translates keyword and shows the competitive landscape for that keyword.

• Plots the opportunity chart, shows search volume, bid suggestions and

competitive factor for multiple locations.

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Google Global Market Finder

http://translate.google.com/globalmarketfinder/index.html

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Google Translate Converts Text To Speech

http://translate.google.com/#

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Google Translate Converts Text To Speech

http://translate.google.com/#

The new voices are available in three new languages — Arabic, Japanese, and Korean — and provide dramatic quality improvements for 17 other languages: Czech, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish

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Google News - “Follow News” Button

http://news.google.com/

• Google News has quietly added a new button that allows you to easily

bookmark

frequent searches and create custom sections within your personalized Google

News home page

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Google News - “Follow News” Button

http://news.google.com/

Bookmarking Your Searches

Clicking on that link will bring back search results for that topic, making it an easy way to keep track of your favorite topics.

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Google Voice Search

www.google.com

• Search the web by speaking keywords

Link.

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Google Voice Search

www.google.com

• Google, Wikipedia, YouTube, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo and Wolfram|Alpha.

• Can also be added to your own user-defined search engines.

• Integrates a speech input button for all websites using HTML5 search boxes. 

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Google Local Search

• Google.co.uk

• Google.De

• Google.com.au

• Google.ca

• ……

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Google Translated foreign pages

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Scroogle.org

An ad-free Google search proxy which prevents the searcher's data being stored by Google

• Search Google anonymously

• Disables all search history

• Masks IP address, blocks cookies and search history

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Google New

http://www.google.com/newproducts/

The one place to find everything new from Google

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Productivity Tools

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GE.TT

http://ge.tt/

• A real-time file sharing service.

• No need to wait for files to upload. They are ready to be shared as soon as you

select them.

• Get real-time statistics that tells you exactly how many people have downloaded

your files.

• With Ge.tt you can send the shared files on an email directly from the website. And

if

you create an account the recipient will have the option to reply directly to you.

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Short ZY

http://shortzy.com/user/login?r=frontpage

• Shortens URLs quickly and securely.

• Displays the number of views of your shortened URL

• Keeps the stats of the shortened URL secure.

• Similar tools: Bit.ly and Lip.tc...

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CloudApp

http://getcloudapp.com/

• CloudApp allows you to share images, links, music, videos and files.

• Choose a file, drag it to the menu bar and… That’s All

• CloudApp provides you with a short link automatically copied to your clipboard that

you can use to share your upload with co-workers and friends.

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CollabShot.com – Share Your Screen With Your Colleagueswww.collabshot.com/

• Grab. Share. Collaborate

• Gives you the ability to share your screen grabs with your colleagues for quick

and easy collaboration.

• Ctrl + Alt + P for Capture and Ctrl V to paste a link to the Captured Screen

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TinyGrab – Share Your Screen With Your Colleagues

http://tinygrab.com/

• Simple . Screenshot . Sharing

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ThisDay: View Historical Events That Happened On Today’s Date

Link

• Each day is a milestone in human history. Nikon welcomes you to enjoy a

brief time-traveling experience.

• What did the world witness on this day in the past?

• "THIS DAY" is a website that allows you to feel the historic events on each

date.

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Non Google News

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Realtime.springer.com

http://realtime.springer.com/

• Realtime.springer.com is a special service that gives you insight into what content

is

being read by the scientific community, all over the world, as it is happening.

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Realtime.springer.com

http://realtime.springer.com/

Realtime.springer.com currently receives input from the information platform

SpringerLink with nearly five million documents from about 41,000 eBooks, 1,160

book series, 2,524 journals and 173 eReference works. Additionally, the tool

receives feeds from the SpringerImages database with more than 2.7 million images

and from SpringerProtocols, the database of reproducible laboratory protocols in the

life and biomedical sciences.

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Realtime.springer.com

http://realtime.springer.com/

• Direct to Homepage and Journal Search

• A graph showing the number of downloads

• Direct to Springer Real-Time Feed

• Direct to Spriger Real-Time Icons

• Direct to "Springer Realtime" Keyword Tag Cloud

• Direct to "Springer Realtime" Map

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Lexisweb

http://www.lexisweb.com/

http://lexisweb.co.uk/

LexisWeb is a free search engine of legal stuff, but it also gives the last five years of

case law free, through lexisone.com. It's like a Google search engine for law, with

the added benefit that you can access huge amounts of material free.

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Newsy

http://www.newsy.com/

• A multi-source online video news service that monitors, analyzes and presents the

world's news coverage.

• Human editors summarize the news

• Links to original sources

• Example

Thank you!

Inbar Yasur

www.Hipusit.info