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20 טיפים ב – 25 דקות. שלומית פרי הספרייה למדעי החברה ולניהול ע"ש ברנדר-מוס אוניברסיטת תל אביב. AltSearchEngines.com. 1. http://www.altsearchengines.com A sign of the times More than 1000 alternative and niche search engines
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20 טיפים ב – 25 דקות • שלומית פרי • הספרייה למדעי החברה ולניהולע"ש ברנדר-מוס • אוניברסיטת תל אביב
AltSearchEngines.com 1. • http://www.altsearchengines.com • A sign of the times • More than 1000 alternative and niche search engines • Helpful for identifying which search engine to use for various Web 2.0 questions • Lists and describes a range of alternative search engine types
1. AltSearchEngines.com • Motto: “The most wonderful search engines you’ve never seen.” • The site updates monthly with new alternative search engines and changes to existing ones • Archives since May 2007 • Gives you an opportunity to look at available search engines and techniques for their use
2. Technorati • http://technorati.com/ • Currently tracks 108.7 million blogs • Over 250 million pieces of tagged social media
3. Google's Experimental Search • http://www.google.com/experimental • Add view:timeline or view:info to search query • Must use US version of Google • See results • in a timeline • with dates highlighted • with images featured(!) • highlighted on a map
4.SearchMash.com • http://www.searchmash.com/ • Unbranded Google site • Results sorted by web page, images, blogs, videos, Wikipedia • Infinite scroll • Executes "search-within-the-site"
5.Google date-limiting • Use Advanced Search screen • Pull down menu: last 24 hours, last week, last month, etc.
6. Simply Google • http://www.simply-google.com/ • Simply Google - all of Google's hidden features in one webpage! • Excellent overview site of all Google's features and sites, downloads, blogs
7. Yahoo! Mindset • http://mindset.research.yahoo.com • Are you researching or shopping?
8. Yahoo's Y!Q feature • http://yq.search.yahoo.com/ • Contextual search engine • Finds "more like this paragraph“ • Initial search • Suggests alternate phrases
9. Gigablast • http://gigablast.com/ • Limit to multiple sites • Gigabits clustering • Very cool complex search and ranking tools (see Help file for syntax)
10. Factbites • http://www.factbites.com/ • Search results deliver small fact-bites • Max 30 results • Good for finding in-depth sites quickly
11. Intelways • http://intelways.com/ • Easy comparison of search results • NOT a meta-search engine • Well-organised finding tool • Useful if you don't know where to start
12. NationMaster • http://www.nationmaster.com • Source for national stats • A massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations • Cool tool for presenting graphical info • Data from WHO, World Bank, CIA World Factbook, World Resources Institute, UNESCO, OECD, etc.
13. Pagebull • http://pagebull.com/ • Metasearch tool • Entirely visual
14. Carrot2 • http://project.carrot2.org/ • An Open Source Search Results Clustering Engine • Automatically organize (cluster) search results into thematic categories • Limits the search results by default to the top 100 results from any of the search engines
15. Quintura • http://www.quintura.com/ • On-the-fly clustering of results • Based on Yahoo’s search engine • Tabs for results in video,images and Amazon • Mousing over a term re-executes the results
16. AskX • http://www.ask.com/?ax=5 • New interface for Ask.com • Good clustering • Highlights Wikipedia • Images, news items, blogs, etc.highlighted