Search Engines news & Productivity tools for information professionals - IFISH Meeting

1. Inbar Yasur | T +972 4 6013103 | M +972 54 9988090 | E Inbar.yasur@gmail.com | W www.Hipusit.infoInbar Yasur | T +972 4 6013103 | M +972 54 9988090 | E Inbar.yasur@gmail.com | W www.Hipusit.info
Information Update
IFISH Meeting - December 2015

2. Google Updates
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3. Google: Single or double quotes both work the same
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4. Google Replaces “web” Results with “all Results”
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5. Alternative Search Engines
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6. Hulbee
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https://hulbee.com/

7. Hulbee
• New search engine from Switzerland promises:
• Privacy in searching
• Semantic understanding of query and results
• Word clouds
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https://hulbee.com/

8. Get impersonal search results from Google
• Impersonal.Me is a web app built on top of Google that strips
away any and all personal preferences that Google takes into
account when you search for something, giving you unadulterated
results.
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Impersonal.Me

9. Get impersonal search results from Google
• Search from Israel • Search from U.S.
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10. Gmail
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11. Gmail tips that have a daily impact on work
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12. Gmail Tips - Enable “Undo Send” for last-minute email editing
• Fear no more! Undo Send helps you delay your email for a few
seconds so you can modify it.
• Go to Gmail’s Settings
• Undo Options is now on and allows you to delay sending your mail for
10, 20, or 30 seconds, giving you the option of “undoing” the send.
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13. Gmail Tips - Use canned responses to save time crafting
• A high percentage of the emails we write are somewhat similar, or
refer back to something we’ve already sent.
• Often-typed long messages could be standardized for the most part,
and then customized a bit for each individual answer.
• Just compose Canned Responses and retrieve them and reuse at a
later time.
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14. Gmail Tips - Use canned responses to save time crafting
• Go To Gmail > Settings > Labs > Canned Responses
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15. Gmail Tips - Use canned responses to save time crafting
• Go To Gmail > Settings > Labs > Canned Responses
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Link to visual guide

16. Gmail Tips – Use Gmail Offline
• Keep working while offline
• Catch up while on a plane/train/boat
• Disconnect and focus on creative tasks
• Allows mail to be read, responded to, searched and archived without
network access.
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17. • Gmail users can now block specific email addresses with just two
clicks.
• In the top right hand corner of a message, click the drop-down menu
button (upside down triangle), and select "block." (It appears with
the name of the sender in quotes.)
• Any future messages from the blocked addresses will land in the
spam folder.
• Change your mind and want to unblock them? Go to the Settings
page and add them back into your good graces.
Gmail Tips – a new ‘Block sender’ Option
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18. Gmail Tips – a new ‘Block Sender’ option
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19. Gmail Tips – a new ‘Block Sender’ option
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20. YouTube
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21. Transcribe video files to text with YouTube
• Use the CC button to automatically make a text transcript
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22. Transcribe video files to text with YouTube
• Download Audio Transcriptions from YouTube
• Use the CC Button
• Press F12 on Windows OR Option+Cmd+L on Mac to open the
JavaScript console inside Chrome Developer tools and paste the code:
• if(yt.config_.TTS_URL.length)
window.location.href=yt.config_.TTS_URL+"&kind=asr&fmt=srv1&lang=en“
• It will open the transcribed text of the uploaded video in the current
browser tab as shown in this short video
• Save the file with a .html extension and double-click to view the
transcription in plain text.
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Read More

23. Video Alerts
• Video-Alerts is a service that allows you to get an email notification
when new videos are uploaded to YouTube, on whatever topic you
choose. Be the first to watch!
• Basic account is free (with ads), and allows tracking of up to 10
keywords, and updates once per day.
• Be the first to learn about new videos and post them to your blog
• Follow your favourite artists and performers
• Stay updated about your industry, market, and competition
• Learn when someone reviews your product, or just mentions it in their video
• Quick notification on any subject that interests you
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http://www.video-alerts.com/

24. YouTube Shortcuts
• The J key
• Takes the video back 10 seconds
• The K key
• Takes the video forward 10 seconds
• The K Key
• Allows you to play/pause YouTube videos
• The 1-9 keys
• Allow you to skip to certain percentages of the video, so pressing 1
takes you 10% into the video, pressing 2 takes you 20% into the video
• The 0 Keys
• Takes you to the start of the video. This works both when you’re playing
the video and when you have paused it
» Full list of Shortcuts
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25. YouTube Data Viewer – Citizen Evidence by Amnesty
• Check the validity and authority of the videos that you watch.
• Citizen Evidence by Amnesty allows you to extract the meta data to
get information that YouTube doesn't give you.
• If multiple versions of a video have been uploaded you can check out
the earliest version.
• See all of the thumbnails associated with the video. And do a reverse
image lookup to see where else they appear on the web.
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http://www.amnestyusa.org/citizenevidence/

26. Protect your Google account with password alert
• looks like a fairly standard login page, but it’s not. It’s what is called
a “phishing” page, a site run by people looking to receive and steal
your password.
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https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/password-alert/noondiphcddnnabmjcihcjfbhfklnnep

27. Protect your Google account with password alert
• If you enter your Google Account password or Google for Work
password into anywhere other than Google's sign-in page, you’ll
receive an alert, so you can quickly change your password if
needed.
• Password Alert also checks each page you visit to see if it's
impersonating Google's sign-in page, and alerts you if so.
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https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/password-alert/noondiphcddnnabmjcihcjfbhfklnnep

28. Productivity Tools
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29. Archive Web Pages – Wayback Machine
• The Wayback Machine can be used to save any web page on-
demand as well.
• Enter the URL of any public web pages in the input box.
• The archiver will download a full copy of the page, including all the
images and assets, on their server.
• It will make a permanent archive of the page that looks exactly like the
original and will stay even if the original page goes offline.
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https://archive.org/web/

30. Archive Web Pages – Archive.IS
• The Archive.IS is very similar to archive.org in the sense that you
enter the page URL and it will make an exact snapshot of the web
page on their server.
• The page will be stored online forever but here you also have the
option to download the saved page as a ZIP file. It too
provides date based archives so you can have multiple snapshots
of the same page for different days.
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Archive.IS

31. Shortcuts
• Control-Shift-T will reopen the last closed tab in your browser.
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32. Shortcuts
• If you're in Chrome and want to highlight the URL, Control-L will
highlight it for you.
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33. Quickly get insights on a spreadsheet using Explore
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https://support.google.com/docs/answer/6280499
• You can see automatic charts and analysis based on the data in your spreadsheet
using the Explore feature. Find patterns in your data and add the charts directly to
your spreadsheet.
Example

34. Templates, Insights, and Dictation in Google Docs
• Google's standalone web apps for Docs, Sheets and Slides now
show a list of templates you can choose to quickly create a
document, spreadsheet or presentation
• Docs
• Resume, Letters, Reports, Project Proposal, Brochure, Letters, Meeting
Notes
• Sheets
• To-do lists, Annual budget, Calendar, Schedule, Invoice, Attendance
• Slides
• Status report, Case study, Consulting proposal, Recipe book, Portfolio
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http://googlesystem.blogspot.co.il/2015/09/templates-insights-and-dictation-in.html

35. Specialized Big Data Tools
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36. USPTO – The information behind the data
• The PatentsView search tool allows audiences to interact with
nearly 40 years of data on patenting activity in the US.
• Use the tool to explore trends
• Technological
• Regional
• Individual-level
• Through several search filters and multiple view options:
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http://www.patentsview.org/web/

37. USPTO – The information behind the data
• Who are the top inventors in Google Israel?
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http://www.patentsview.org/web/

38. USPTO – The information behind the data
• Who is the top Israeli Assignee?
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http://www.patentsview.org/web/

39. From Fee to Free
• Provided by the U.S. Census Bureau, USA Trade Online is a
dynamic data tool that gives users access to current and
cumulative U.S. export and import data. With multiple data sets
and capabilities, USA Trade Online can assist different types of
customers from a wide range of industries and fields:
• Manufacturers
• Academic researchers
• Economists
• Governments and federal agencies
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https://usatrade.census.gov/

40. CrunchBase
• Discover innovative companies and the people behind them
• The CrunchBase Dataset is constantly expanding through
contributions from a community of users, investment firms, and a
network of global partners.
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www.crunchbase.com

41. European Data Portal
• The European Data Portal projects main workstreams is the
development of a new pan-European open data infrastructure.
• Its goal is to be a gateway offering access to data published by
administrations in countries across Europe, from the EU and
beyond.
• The portal includes over 240,000 datasets from 34 European
countries.
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http://www.europeandataportal.eu/en/

42. Data.gov
• The home of the U.S. Government’s open data
• The portal includes over 192,349 datasets
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http://www.data.gov/

43. Data.gov.il
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data.gov.il/

44. Social Networks
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45. boardreader
• BoardReader was developed to address the shortcomings of
current search engine technology to accurately find and display
information contained on the Web's forums and message boards.
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http://boardreader.com/

46. Social Share
• Social Share is a free plug-in to PowerPoint to make it easier to
share your content and slides to your social network.
• Post your slide as an image, album, or even as video!
• You can choose any format you want to share your content. Your
friends can see your post on Facebook, comment on it, and provide
you feedback!
• See your social updates in PowerPoint itself!
• When your friends comment on your post, you can see it in
PowerPoint.
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https://officesocialshare.azurewebsites.net/

47. Inbar Yasur | T +972 4 6013103 | M +972 54 9988090 | E Inbar.yasur@gmail.com | W www.Hipusit.infoInbar Yasur | T +972 4 6013103 | M +972 54 9988090 | E Inbar.yasur@gmail.com | W www.Hipusit.info
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