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30 Tips in 45 Minutes

30 Tips in 45 Minutes. Mary Ellen Bates Bates Information Services mbates@BatesInfo.com. 1. Simply Google Excellent overview site of all Google's features and sites, downloads, blogs www.usabilityviews.com/ simply_google.htm. 2. AskX.com New interface for Ask.com Good clustering

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30 Tips in 45 Minutes

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  1. 30 Tips in 45 Minutes Mary Ellen Bates Bates Information Services mbates@BatesInfo.com

  2. 1. • Simply Google • Excellent overview site of all Google's features and sites, downloads, blogs • www.usabilityviews.com/ simply_google.htm

  3. 2. • AskX.com • New interface for Ask.com • Good clustering • Highlights Wikipedia • Images, news items, blogs, etc. highlighted

  4. 3. • Search The Web 2.0 • Lets you narrow the search using popular terms (trendy) or obscure terms (long tail) • Overlay on Google search engine • www.searchtheweb2.com

  5. 4. • Google Search History • Limit your search to what you've searched before • Is Google Big Brother? • google.com/searchhistory

  6. 5. • Consider the Q&A services • answers.yahoo.com • qna.live.com • askville.ask.com • linkedin.com/answers • Use with caution!

  7. 6. • Use search engines' quick-answer feature • Ask.com's Smart Answers • Google's OneBox • Yahoo's Shortcuts • MSN's Instant Answers

  8. 7. • Squidoo • Hybrid of a web page, interactive poll, Flickr-like photos, notes from readers, and a blog • Great way to share resources with colleagues

  9. 8. • Build customized search engine • Rollyo.com • Yahoo Search Builder • Google Co-Coop • Live.com's Macros • Gigablast's Custom Topic Search

  10. 9. • Yahoo's Search Subscriptions • Non-subscribers can search Factiva, LexisNexis, Wall Street Journal, Forrester, IEEE, FT.com, etc. • Pay with credit card • Limited versions of some databases • search.yahoo.com/subscriptions

  11. 10. • Kosmix.com • Vertical search engine on steroids • Excellent clustering • Health, Video games, Finance, Travel, US politics, Autos

  12. 11. • NationMaster.com • Source for national stats • Cool tool for presenting graphical info • Data from WHO, World Bank, CIA World Factbook, World Resources Institute, UNESCO, OECD, etc.

  13. 12. • Use Yahoo's Mindset feature • mindset.research.yahoo.com • Are you researching or shopping?

  14. 13. • MSN's cool synonym-suggestion tool • Intended for helping search engine advertisers identify similar words and common misspellings • snurl.com/zqyd

  15. 14. • MSN's misspelling-suggestion engine • snurl.com/zqyl

  16. 15. • Consider 37signals.com • Great collaborative resources • Project management, to-do lists, file sharing, time slips, etc.

  17. 16. • Ask's maps • Both driving and walking directions • Takes local topography into account • maps.ask.com

  18. 17. • Use Exalead's NEAR/n operator • (solar OR sun) NEAR/3 power

  19. 18. • Live Academic search • Great search results page • Sort options • Slider bar for verbosity • Endless scroll of results! • academic.live.com

  20. 19. • Compare search engines • CompareSearchEngines.dogpile.com • jux2 • ranking.thumbshots.com • TwinGine.com • YahooGoogleMSN.com

  21. 20. • Data visualization arrives to the value-added online services • Factiva's Discovery Pane in Search 2.0

  22. 21. • TouchGraph • Finds relationships among URLs • Uses Google's "Similar pages" function • Finds related books in Amazon • Uses subject terms

  23. 22. • Gigablast • Limit to multiple sites • Gigabits clustering • Extremely cool complex search and ranking tools (see Help file for syntax)

  24. 23. • Snap Search • Easy to navigate • Visual search results • Can interact with site within Snap • Based on Gigablast • snap.com

  25. 24. • GooFresh • Limits Google search to only sites recently added or updated in the index • Great for doing repeated searches! • Props to Tara Calishain • www.researchbuzz.org/2003/09/ goofresh.shtml

  26. 25. • Check out podcast lectures from • Yale • Princeton • UC Berkeley • Stanford • Johns Hopkins

  27. 26. • SearchMash • Unbranded Google site • Cool interface • Results sorted by web page, images, blogs, videos, Wikipedia • Infinite scroll

  28. 27. • Google's Topic Search • Health, Destination Guides, etc. • Info pros can contribute • www.google.com/coop/topics/?show=all

  29. 28. • PageBull • Metasearch tool • Entirely visual • Good for right-brained searchers

  30. 29. • Watch Google's Librarian Center • Blog, newsletter, teaching tools • Tips of the Trade • librariancentral.blogspot.com

  31. 30. • OneLook • Reverse dictionary! • Better than a thesaurus! • onelook.com/reverse-dictionary.shtml

  32. Mary Ellen offers two free email bulletins: “Search Tip of the Month” and "Info-Entrepreneur Tip of the Month" If you would like to subscribe to either, just ask (mbates@BatesInfo.com) Also, check out her blog at LibrarianOfFortune.com

  33. Mary Ellen BatesBates Information Serviceswww.BatesInfo.commbates@BatesInfo.com303.772.7095

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