This document provides an overview of advanced internet searching techniques, including: - Different types of search engines such as free text, directory, site specific, and social search engines. - Basic search techniques like implied AND, phrases, excluding terms, and proximity searching. - Additional search options in engines like Google including file type, date, safe search, and number of results. - Alternative search engines such as Bing, DuckDuckGo, and visual search engines. - Searching social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and blogs.

1. Advanced Internet Searching
Phil Bradley
http://www.philb.com
Autumn 2012
Online at: http://slidesha.re/tBuhe7

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

3. 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”

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

7. More search options: ~

8. More search options: *

9. Proximity Search: AROUND(x)

10. site:

11. site:.gov.uk

12. site:<URL>

13. link:

14. info:

15. related:

16. Advanced search: where is it?

17. Advanced search

18. Filetype: pdf, doc

19. Filetype:

20. filetype: all options

21. Date, usage rights etc

22. Creative commons

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

24. Google Knowledge Chart

25. Why else use Google?

27. Reading level

28. Dictionary

29. Social

30. Nearby

31. Visited pages

32. Not yet visited

33. Related searches

34. Sites with images

35. Time limited

36. Page previews

37. Google+ results

38. Google + and Knowledge Graph

39. Authors

40. Cached version

41. Google images

43. Google images

44. Similar images

45. Images by colour

46. Imagesize:

47. Types of image: face

48. Colour of images

49. Google knows best ‘did you
mean?’

50. Enhanced Maps

51. Google carousel

52. Google Instant

53. One trick ponies
• movies location

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

58. Faganfinder.com/google/

59. Why not use Google?

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

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

63. Incorrect counts

64. Serving many pages, single sites

65. Personalisation

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

68. Bing

69. Duckduckgo

70. Blekko

71. Blekko/Facebook

72. Create your own slashtag

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

75. Boounce

77. Boounce

81. FindHow: the How-To search engine

82. FindHow: writing and speaking

83. SearchLion

84. SearchLion multisearch

85. Preview, search onsite

86. Preview various screens

87. Zanran: Google for data

88. Zanran results page

89. Display tables

90. Alternative.to

92. Who stole my pictures?

93. Obtain a list & compare

94. Visual.ly

95. Icon Finder

96. Search results

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

98. Dmoz The open Directory

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

100. Browsys results

101. Trovando results

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

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

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

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

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

107. Blind search:which is best?

108. http://blindsearch.fejus.com/

109. Blekko /monte

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

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

113. Multimedia engines
• Audio Visual
• Image
• Sound

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

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

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

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

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

120. IceRocket

121. surchur

122. Addictomatic

123. Twitter Advanced

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

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

126. Zite top stories

127. FlipBoard

129. Pulse News

131. News curation via the web

132. News.me daily digest

133. Scoop.it

134. Sulia http://sulia.com

135. More on social media search

136. Summer of 2012

137. Autumn of 2012

140. Facebook: People

141. Facebook: Pages

142. Facebook: Places

143. Facebook: Events

144. Facebook: Groups

145. Facebook: Library pages

146. LinkedIn

147. Twitter

148. Twitter Search

149. Social bookmarking

150. My feed from my network

151. Diigo

152. Pinterest

153. Some new engines

154. Visual.ly

155. Procog.com

156. Polyfetch http://polyfetch.com

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

158. People search

159. Worldometers.info

160. Lanyrd.com

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

162. Numberquotes.com

163. BananaSlug http://bananaslug.com/

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

165. Evaluating sites

167. Thedogisland

168. Federal Vampire & Zombie Agency

169. History of a Victorian Robot

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

171. Thank you!
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