1. Advanced Internet Searching
Phil Bradley
http://www.philb.com
Winter 2012-13

2. Going... Going... How many?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/leviphotos/2332987961/

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

4. Types of search engine
• Site/Subject specific
– BT directory, site search engines
• Hidden/Invisible web
– Complete planet
• Social search engines
– Icerocket, surchur, twitter
• “The others”

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

8. More search options: ~

9. More search options: *

10. Proximity Search: AROUND(x)

11. site:

12. site:.gov.uk

13. site:<URL>

14. link:

15. info:

16. related:

17. Advanced search: where is it?

18. Advanced search

19. Advanced (cont)

20. Specific options: terms appearing,
safe search

23. Specific options: reading level

25. Specific options: filetype

28. Specific options: usage rights

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

32. Google Knowledge Chart

33. Why else use Google?

34. Search options in search

35. Personal results

36. Verbatim

37. Dictionary

38. Nearby

39. Visited pages

40. Not yet visited

41. Related searches

42. Sites with images

43. Time limited

44. Page previews

45. Google+ results

46. Google + and Knowledge Graph

47. Authors

48. Cached version

50. Google images

52. Google images

53. Similar images

54. Images by colour

55. Imagesize:

56. Types of image: face

57. Colour of images

58. Google carousel

59. Google Instant

60. One trick ponies
• movies location

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

65. Google Scholar

66. ‘Your citations’

67. Google Books

68. Google Ngram Viewer

69. Google Zeitgeist 2012

70. Faganfinder.com/google/

71. Soople.com

72. Why not use Google?

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

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

76. Incorrect counts

77. Serving many pages, single sites

78. Personalisation

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

81. Bing

82. Duckduckgo

83. Blekko

84. Blekko/Facebook

85. Create your own slashtag

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

88. Boounce

90. Boounce

94. FindHow: the How-To search engine

95. FindHow: writing and speaking

96. SLIKK! (aka SearchLion)

97. SLIKK! multisearch

98. Preview, search onsite

99. Zanran: Google for data

100. Zanran results page

101. Display tables

102. Alternative.to

104. Who stole my pictures?

105. Obtain a list & compare

106. Visual.ly

107. Icon Finder

108. Search results

109. Yahoo Directory
• http://dir.yahoo.com/

110. Dmoz The open Directory

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

112. Browsys results

113. Trovando results

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

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

116. Simploos
http://beta.simploos.com/

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

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

119. Blind search:which is best?

120. http://blindsearch.fejus.com/

121. Blekko /monte

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

124. News/Date
• Silobreaker http://www.silobreaker.com/

125. Facts and figures

127. Multimedia engines
• Audio Visual
• Image
• Sound

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

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

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

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

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

134. IceRocket

135. surchur

136. Addictomatic

137. Twitter Advanced

138. News collation resources
Flipboard http://flipboard.com/

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

140. Zite top stories

141. FlipBoard

143. Pulse News

145. News curation via the web

146. News.me daily digest

147. Scoop.it

148. Sulia http://sulia.com

149. More on social media search

150. Summer of 2012

151. Autumn of 2012

152. February 2013

155. Facebook: People

156. Facebook: Pages

157. Facebook: Places

158. Facebook: Events

159. Facebook: Groups

160. Facebook: Library pages

161. Facebook Graph Search

162. LinkedIn

163. Twitter

164. Twitter Search

165. Social bookmarking

166. My feed from my network

167. Diigo

168. Pinterest

169. Some new engines

170. Soovle

171. Find People on Plus (.com)

172. Visual.ly

173. Procog.com

174. Polyfetch http://polyfetch.com

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

176. People search

177. Worldometers.info

178. Lanyrd.com

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

180. Numberquotes.com

181. BananaSlug http://bananaslug.com/

182. More resources:
• Which search engine when?
• My Search weblog
• Web search engines
• Alternative search engines

183. Evaluating sites

185. Thedogisland

186. Federal Vampire & Zombie Agency

187. History of a Victorian Robot

188. Contact:
• This presentation is online at
• philb@philb.com
• http://www.philb.com
• @philbradley

189. Thank you!
• http://www.philb.com/whichengine.htm
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• philb@philb.com