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THERE IS MORE TO SEARCHING THE WEB THAN GOOGLE

THERE IS MORE TO SEARCHING THE WEB THAN GOOGLE. HeSCA 2003 28 th International Conference on Health and Science Communication June 20, 2003 Lori J. Klein National Institutes of Health Department of Health and Human Services. What Am I Talking About?. Share of Online Searches.

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THERE IS MORE TO SEARCHING THE WEB THAN GOOGLE

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  1. THERE IS MORE TO SEARCHING THE WEB THAN GOOGLE HeSCA 2003 28th International Conference on Health and Science Communication June 20, 2003 Lori J. Klein National Institutes of Health Department of Health and Human Services

  2. What Am I Talking About?

  3. Share of Online Searches Source: comScore qSearch, April 2003

  4. Search Engine “A remotely accessible program that lets you do keyword searches for information on the Internet” • Single-Search Engine • Lycos • Go.com • Meta-Search Engine • Dogpile • Vivísimo http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/index.html

  5. Why Does it Matter?

  6. AltaVista • Has categories which you can search in • Has several different navigation bars to use • Has an advanced search feature (buried) • Handy features: • search specifically for images, MP3/audio, andvideos (not always featured on front page) • Babel Fish for translations (10 languages)

  7. AltaVista, cont.

  8. Google • Less cluttered home page • Advanced search more obvious • Search groups still, but a layer in • Image search (425 million images) • has specific help and advanced search

  9. Google, cont.

  10. AllTheWeb • Again a nice, clean layout • Buttons on top to search specifically for pictures, video, audio • Easy access to customize your retrieval • highlight search terms • open results in new window • number of search results per page

  11. AllTheWeb, cont.

  12. Yahoo • Really busy page, this is just the top part • From Company Overview - “The Only Place Anyone Needs To Go Find Anything, Communicate With Anyone, Or Buy Anything” • From main page links you to access info for various media (PDA, Web-enabled phone, voice)

  13. Yahoo, cont.

  14. Common Search Tips + in front of a word means results must include the word (AND) - in front of a word means results should not include the word (ANDNOT or NOT) “ ” used around words indicates search as a phrase * truncation or wild card symbol ( ) used for nesting Arrange terms from left to right

  15. Meta-Search Engines • Same features and capabilities already discussed may be available • Many allow you to choose which engines to search (This list is from Dogpile.)

  16. Another Meta-Search Engine

  17. KartOO – Visual Display Interface

  18. Clustering

  19. Real Convenience

  20. AllTheWeb AltaVista Ditto.com Google HotBot iBoogie ixquick Lycos Moving Image Gateway MSN ProFusion Singingfish Vivisimo WebCrawler Good Engines for Multi-Media and Images

  21. Searching for Media

  22. AllTheWeb AltaVista FindSounds HotBot iBoogie Lycos MSN Pandia Search Central Singingfish Vivisimo Good Engines for Audio

  23. No Advertising • DMOZ Open Directory Project - a volunteer-led directory for which people categorize sites • Vivisimo - a “a showcase demonstration” of clustering technology which organizes the output of other search engines • Honorable mention: My Way and WebCrawler - no banners or pop-ups

  24. Directories

  25. Good Web Sites for Information Helpful Guide to Search Engines at http://www.monash.com/spidap.html Multi-search Engines - a comparison at http://www.philb.com/msengine.htm Search Engine Showdown at http://notess.com/search/ Search Engine Watch at http://www.searchenginewatch.com/ Search Engines Databases and Newswires at http://www.internets.com Search Tools Chart at http://www.infopeople.org/search/chart.html

  26. URLs of Search Engines http://www.alltheweb.com http://www.altavista.com http://www.anywho.com http://search.aol.com/aolcom/index.jsp http://www.bufvc.ac.uk/gateway http://www.ditto.com http://www.dmoz.org

  27. URLs, cont. http://www.dogpile.com/info.dogpl http://www.excite.com http://www.findsounds.com http://www.go.com http://www.google.com http://www.hotbot.com http://www.iBoogie.com

  28. URLs, cont. http://www.ixquick.com http://www.kartoo.com http://www.lycos.com http://www.msn.com http://www.myway.com http://www.pandia.com http://www.profusion.com

  29. URLs, cont. http://www.singingfish.com http://www.switchboard.com http://www.teoma.com http://vivisimo.com http://www.webcrawler.com http://www.yahoo.com

  30. Contacting Me Lori J. Klein Reference Section National Library of Medicine 301-435-4891 lori_klein@nlm.nih.gov

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