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Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
The Hongkiat blog has put together a mega-list of 100+ Alternative Search Engines You Should Know. This helpful guide categorizes these niche search engines into the following types:
Monday, May 18th, 2009
The new computational knowledge engine called Wolfram Alpha launched on Friday amid a flurry of media attention. Searchers using this engine can enter a question or a calculation, and rather than return relevant results, Wolfram Alpha uses its algorithms to digest the query and compute the answer based on its collection of data. Try it out by searching for the next solar eclipse, the GDP of Norway, or the Nobel Prize winners from France. Scientists, researchers and techies alike will be interested in this new computational search engine which is running on R Smarr, the world’s 44th largest supercomputer, created by launch partners, R Systems.
Further reading on the topic:
Friday, April 24th, 2009
A new search application from Google Labs, the Google News Timeline allows searchers to view news within a zoomable graphical timeline which can be adjusted by weeks, months, years, or decades. Data sources include “recent and historical news, scanned newspapers and magazines, blog posts and Twitter status messages, sports scores and various types of media like music albums and movies.”
Thursday, January 8th, 2009
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Are you redesigning your website or creating a new one for your organization? Get some great advice on how to properly design and code your site for optimal usability and search engine optimization from this rap video.
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
The Wired Campus blog covers the story of a new project in development called Reference Extract which will be a Web search engine powered by the expertise of librarians. The project is being developed by OCLC, Syracuse University, and University of Washington.
“Have you ever wished for a personal reference librarian, an information guru to point you to the most reliable sites whenever you search the Web? A new search-engine project aims to simulate something like that. The trick? Weighting search results so that librarians’ picks rise to the top.”
Monday, November 3rd, 2008
Wondering about which search engine is the best when looking for blog content? Search Engine Journal provides a breakdown of the features and functionality of today’s top blog search tools in Blog Search Engines : The Complete Overview. Applications discussed include:
Sunday, October 5th, 2008
Google has re-launched its Blog Search as a memetracker - a tool which tracks and aggregates discussions happening throughout the blogosphere. Those who have used Tech Meme or Postgenomic will be familiar with the interface. Users can browse through eleven popular categories on the left, and view much-discussed stories which are grouped on the right.
via ReadWriteWeb
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
The latest video from Common Craft offers Web Search Strategies in Plain English. It gives tips on ways to conduct effective search engine queries including phrase searching, keyword searching, and implied Boolean operators.
Friday, August 8th, 2008
A new Pew Internet & American Life report finds that almost half, (49%), of all Internet users make use of search engines on a daily basis, a number which has risen from one-third in 2002. This growth brings Web search closer to the 60% of people who utilize email daily, and vaults it ahead of other activities such as the 39% of people who check the news. For detailed demographic information, see the full report here.
Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
Laura Milligan at BestCollegesOnline.com puts together a mega-list of 50 Awesome Search Engines Every Librarian Should Know About. If you’re looking for a departure from your usual search engine, or just want to add more resources to your search toolkit, you’ll want to check this one out. Search tools are divided into the following sections:
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Josh Catone of ReadWriteWeb lists ten ways to search Wikipedia which receives over 683 million visitors per year. Aside from the encylopedia’s official search engine, he compiles a set of intriguing alternatives including semantic search engines, a combined search of all the Wikipedia websites including Wikiquote, Wikibooks, and Wiktionary, and a search which presents results as a mindmap of related entries. His top ten picks are:
Bonus site: Wikirage
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Looking to go beyond Google for Web search? If so, you’ll want to check out these eight search engines listed by Web Worker Daily as viable alternatives to the search heavyweight including interfaces which allow you to search web forums, video, images, and people. Here are their suggestions:
Monday, March 17th, 2008
Are you a visual learner who prefers to have sets of data presented graphically rather than in text lists? There are many websites and desktop applications out there which let you do just that, and Read/Write Web has compiled a list of nearly 100 of them in their Best Tools for Visualization article. If you’re a fan of tools such as grokker, Twittervision, and KartOO, enjoy heat maps and visual search engines, you’ll want to check out this post which divides these tools into the following categories:
Friday, January 4th, 2008
Lifehacker has created another intriguing guide with this list of ten lesser-known search recipes to try on Google:
