Update on Search Tools :Update on Search Tools Karen Blakeman RBA Information Services & UKeiG 21 April 2008 1 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk AUKML Conference 2008 – Information Professionals Adding Value


What Google's homepage may look like in 2084www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2005/10/10/opinion/1010opart.html :21 April 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 2 What Google's homepage may look like in 2084www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2005/10/10/opinion/1010opart.html


New Google Advanced Search screen :New Google Advanced Search screen 21 April 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 3


Google site links and results suggestions :Google site links and results suggestions 21 April 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 4


Custom Google Search Engines :Custom Google Search Engines AlacraSearch http://www.alacra.com/alacrasearch pipl http://www.pipl.com/ Chipwrapper http://www.chipwrapper.co.uk/ Twitterment http://www.twitterment.com/ 21 April 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 5


http://www.alacra.com/alacrasearch/ :http://www.alacra.com/alacrasearch/ 21 April 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 6


pipl :pipl http://www.pipl.com/ Review at http://www.rba.co.uk/wordpress/2007/05/05/pipl-people-search-beta/ Searches ‘hidden’ web + Google search blog search, Google Groups, LinkedIn, Flickr, Google Scholar, Electoral Roll, Directories, Amazon, Hoovers, Zoominfo etc. Google web search results not the same as an ordinary Google search – they incorporate terms such as resume, CV does not always come up with better results 21 April 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 7


pipl search for Karen Blakeman (1) :pipl search for Karen Blakeman (1) 21 April 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 8


pipl search for Karen Blakeman (2) :pipl search for Karen Blakeman (2) 21 April 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 9


Chipwrapper.co.uk :Chipwrapper.co.uk Google Custom Search engine Searches everything available on 15 free UK News Sites No date sort option but typing in the year sometimes works 21 April 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 10


Twitterment :Twitterment 21 April 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 11


Try different search tools :Try different search tools 21 April 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 12 http://ranking.thumbshots.com/


Yahoo! :Yahoo! http://search.yahoo.co.uk/ http://search.yahoo.com/ Results compare favourable with Google’s, sometimes better Results are ranked in a different order to Google Boolean AND, OR, NOT and parentheses Indexes first 500 K of a document (Google 101 K) Region command (inherited from Inktomi) region: e.g. region:europe, region:mediterranean others are africa, asia, centralamerica, northamerica, southamerica, mideast, southeastasia, downunder 21 April 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 13


http://au.alpha.yahoo.com/ :http://au.alpha.yahoo.com/ 21 April 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 14


Ask :Ask http://www.ask.com/, http://www.ask.co.uk/ Formerly Ask Jeeves Web, news, local search, images, movies, blogs Zoom suggestions for narrowing down or expanding your search Particularly good for blogs 21 April 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 15


Ask UK http://www.ask.co.uk/ :Ask UK http://www.ask.co.uk/ 21 April 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 16


Ask.com BigNews :Ask.com BigNews 21 April 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 17


Exalead :Exalead http://www.exalead.com/ http://www.exalead.co.uk/ Supports wild cards asterisk (*) at the end of a word pollut* finds pollute, pollutant, polluting etc. NEAR - finds words within 16 terms of one another NEAR/n finds words within n number of terms one another climate NEAR/3 change Approximate spelling, phonetic search 21 April 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 18


http://www.exalead.com/ :http://www.exalead.com/ 21 April 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 19


http://www.exalead.com/ :http://www.exalead.com/ 21 April 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 20


Exalead’s Wikipedia interface :Exalead’s Wikipedia interface 21 April 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 21


Exalead Baagz :Exalead Baagz 21 April 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 22


Windows Live Search :Windows Live Search http://www.live.com/ Was MSN Search Results tend to be more consumer oriented Has the most up to date database Possibly has the most extensive database of web pages Good image search option Video, Book, Feeds and Academic Live Feed command for locating RSS feeds on a specified web site site:bbc.co.uk feed:bbc.co.uk 21 April 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 23


Live.com image search :Live.com image search 21 April 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 24


Slide 25:27 November 2006 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 25 http://maps.live.com/


Flash Earth – http://www.flashearth.com/ :Flash Earth – http://www.flashearth.com/ 21 April 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 26


Check out search ‘suggestions’ :Check out search ‘suggestions’ 21 April 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 27


Check out the search results suggestions :Check out the search results suggestions 21 April 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 28


http://www.silobreaker.com/ :http://www.silobreaker.com/ covers free resources news, blogs, video, images market trends geographical location of stories people networks 21 April 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 29


Blog searching :Blog searching Google Blogsearch http://www.google.com/blogsearch Ask – Blogs http://www.ask.com/ Exalead http://www.exalead.com/ limit search to Site Type Blog Live Search http://www.live.com/ and select Feeds Blog and feed search tools Technorati, Blogpulse Quacktrack – http://www.quacktrack.com/ 21 April 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 30


Blogpulse search and trends :Blogpulse search and trends 21 April 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 31 Click on the graph to see ‘trends’


Blogpulse trends :Blogpulse trends 21 April 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 32


Blogpulse Trends :21 April 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 33 Blogpulse Trends


Video, audio, images and other ‘stuff’ :Video, audio, images and other ‘stuff’ Check out video and audio search tools for interviews, television and radio news items News and corporate communications via YouTube channel http://www.youtube.com/ Flickr photos may reveal additional information on events, sponsorships and links to other companies and people http://www.flickr.com/ Blinkz - http://www.blinkx.com/ for television and cable news services Twitter http://www.twitter.com/ http://www.twitterment.com/ Check out http://www.intelways.com/ search tools 21 April 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 34


Advertising :Advertising Run a search on Google video or Yahoo video to track down television and cinema adverts Visit4Info http://www.visit4info.com/ last 3 months of adverts free European press, TV, cinema Adverteyes http://www.adverteyes.biz/ who said what, where and when Creative Club http://www.creativeclub.co.uk/ 21 April 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 35


Visit4info :Visit4info 21 April 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 36


http://www.tafiti.com/ :http://www.tafiti.com/ 21 April 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 37


Original Tafiti :Original Tafiti 21 April 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 38


http://www.tafiti.com/ :http://www.tafiti.com/ 21 April 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 39


http://www.kartoo.com/ :http://www.kartoo.com/ 21 April 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 40


http://www.kvisu.com/ :http://www.kvisu.com/ 21 April 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 41


http://www.kvisu.com/ :http://www.kvisu.com/ 21 April 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 42


http://www.quintura.com/ :http://www.quintura.com/ 21 April 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 43


Cluuz :Cluuz http://www.cluuz.com/ “Cluuz … core technology understands the relationship between the entities, terms, or persons searched leading to more relevant, easy to understand search results” Not totally intuitive but the network visualisation is ‘cool’ The links in the network visualisation do not always relate to the same person or organisation but they are usually working in a similar field or subject area Results vary from one day to the next, one hour to the next! Nevertheless, definitely worth a look 21 April 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 44


Cluuz :Cluuz 21 April 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 45


Compare search engines :Compare search engines Graball.com http://www.graball.com/ compares two search engines of your choice side by side SearchBoth.co.uk http://www.searchboth.co.uk/ similar to Graball TripleMe http://www.tripleme.com/ compares Google, Yahoo and Live side by side FuzzFind http://www.fuzzfind.com/ searches Google, Yahoo, Live, Del.icio.us Zuula http://www.zuula.com runs your search through a range of search tools one by one – order can be customised Intelways http://www.intelways.com/ runs your search through a plethora of search tools one by one 21 April 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 46


FuzzFind :FuzzFind 21 April 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 47 http://www.fuzzfind.com/


Zuula :Zuula http://www.zuula.com/ 21 April 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 48


http://www.intelways.com/ :http://www.intelways.com/ 21 April 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 49


Slide 50:21 April 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 50 Karen Blakeman RBA Information Services Tel: 0118 947 2256 Int. Tel: +44 118 947 2256 karen.blakeman@rba.co.uk http://www.rba.co.uk/ blog: http://www.rba.co.uk/wordpress/ on Facebook – Karen Blakeman Twitter: karenblakeman This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License