1. Use the web as a tool
Find sources, news and information

2. stalk |stôk|
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1 [ with obj. ] pursue or approach
stealthily: a cat stalking a bird.
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3. tasks
• Search Engines
• Twitter Search
• Facebook Graph Search
• Examples
• Surprise
• Questions

4. Be smarter
• Know what you’re looking for
• Know what’s available
• Trust no one! (sort of)
• HAVE A PLAN

5. Other options
• Microsoft Bing
• Dogpile (Google, Yahoo, Yandex)
• Twingine (Side-by-side results)

6. Advanced search
• Google Advanced Search
• Search exact phrase
• Search for any word
• Search by site
• Search by file type

7. google limitations
• Google searches FAR LESS than half of the Web
• Google searches search Google servers : Not the internet
• Ordering based on links, SEO and personal search

8. People searching
• Pipl - https://pipl.com
• ZabaSearch - http://www.zabasearch.com
• Yellow Pages - http://www.yellowpages.com/whitepages
• White Pages - http://www.whitepages.com
• 123People - http://www.123people.com
• Who’s Talkin - http://www.whostalkin.com

9. Dead Web
• Wayback Machine (Old websites) -
http://archive.org/web/web.php
• Minerva (Library of Congress Archive) -
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/lcwa/html/lcwa-home.html

10. WHOIS
• Better Whois - http://www.betterwhois.com
• GoDaddy - http://who.godaddy.com
• Whois dot Net - http://www.whois.net

11. Twitter search
• Twitter Search - http://twitter.com/search
• Advanced - http://twitter.com/search-advanced
• Topsy (Twitter archive) - http://topsy.com
• Snap Bird - http://snapbird.org
• For Newsrooms - https://dev.twitter.com/media/newsrooms

12. Facebook search
• https://www.facebook.com/about/graphsearch
• Combine people with “likes” based on profiles
• Open Status Search - http://openstatussearch.com

13. Videos
• Mappeo - search YouTube videos by location!

14. Examples

15. Surprise

17. Credit due
• Mark Horvit, IRE executive
director
• Making effective use of the
Internet, IRE

18. MORE
• This slideshow - http://bit.ly/webstalk
• Fayetteville Water Accounts - http://bit.ly/faywater
• NICAR 2014, Feb. 27 - March 2 in Baltimore
• SPJ12 Conference in Oxford, Miss. April 5-7

19. Questions