A very long slidedeck that I use when teaching.

1. Advanced Internet Searching
Phil Bradley
http://www.philb.com
Winter 2013

2. Online resources
• Pearltree at http://bit.ly/1axJe13
• Website
http://www.philb.com/searchenginespearl.htm

3. Types of search engine
• Free text
– Google, Yahoo, Bing,
• Directory
– Yahoo, Open Directory
• Multi/Meta search
– Trovando
– Browsys

4. Types of search engine
• Site/Subject specific
– BT directory, site search engines
• Hidden/Invisible web
– Complete planet
• Social search engines
– Icerocket, surchur, twitter
• “The others”

7. Basic search techniques
Implied ‘AND’
Additional terms
Phrase
Changing position
Exclude/NOT
More additional
terms

8. More search options: *

9. Proximity Search: AROUND(x)

10. site:

11. site:.gov.uk

12. site:<URL>

13. link:

14. info:

15. related:

16. Advanced search: where is it?
https://www.google.com/advanced_search

17. Advanced search

18. Advanced search cont

19. Filetype:

20. Filetype: pdf, doc

21. filetype: all options

22. Creative commons

23. Search preferences
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Language
Safesearch filtering
Google Instant
# of results per page – 10, 20, 30, 50, 100
Results window
Blocked sites

24. Google Knowledge Chart

25. Why else use Google?

27. Reading level

28. Dictionary

29. Social

30. Nearby

31. Visited pages

32. Not yet visited

33. Related searches

34. Time limited

36. Cached version

41. Google images

43. Google images

45. Size

46. Colour

47. Type

48. Combine the options

49. Imagesize:

50. Enhanced Maps

51. Google carousel

52. Google Instant

53. One trick ponies
• movies location

57. Google custom search engines
http://www.google.com/cse/

58. Why Google is poor

59. Google knows best ‘did you
mean?’

62. Ranking order
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Search term in title, header, URL
Anchor text
1st paragraph
Frequency
Speed of website
Country version
Personalisation on/off
# of link

63. Google knows best! http://bit.ly/kBGqIg

64. Incorrect counts

65. Serving many pages, single sites

66. Personalisation

68. Alternative search engines
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Free text
Directory
Multi/Meta
Social media
Visual results
Real time
Weblog

69. Bing

70. Bingiton.com

71. Duckduckgo

72. Blekko

73. Exalead
• http://www.exalead.co.uk/search

75. FindHow: the How-To search engine

76. FindHow: writing and speaking

77. Slikk

78. Slikk multisearch

79. Preview, search onsite

80. Preview various screens

81. Zanran: Google for data

82. Zanran results page

83. Display tables

84. Alternative.to

86. Who stole my pictures?

87. Obtain a list & compare

88. Visual.ly

89. Icon Finder

90. Search results

91. Yahoo Directory
• http://dir.yahoo.com/

92. Dmoz The open Directory

93. Multi/meta search
• Browsys http://www.browsys.com/search/
• Trovando http://www.trovando.it/

94. Trovando results

95. Visual search engines
• Redzee http://redz.com/

96. Spacetime 3D
http://search.spacetime.com/

97. Category based engines
• Carrot Clustering http://search.carrot2.org/

98. Comparing results
• Thumbshots ranking
http://www.thumbshots.com/Products/ThumbshotsImages/Ranking.aspx

99. Blind search:which is best?

100. http://blindsearch.fejus.com/

101. Blekko /monte

103. Similar sites
http://www.similarpages.com

104. News/Date
• Silobreaker http://news.silobreaker.com/

105. Multimedia engines
• Audio Visual
• Image
• Sound

106. As well as YouTube...
• Trooker http://www.trooker.com/

107. Sounds
• Soungle http://soungle.com/

108. Images (as well as Flickr)
• Tag Galaxy http://www.taggalaxy.de/

110. Blogs
• Google blog search
http://blogsearch.google.com/

111. Social media
• Social Mention
http://www.socialmention.com/

112. IceRocket

113. Addictomatic

114. Twitter Advanced

115. News collation resources
Flipboard http://flipboard.com/

116. Zite http://www.zite.com

117. Zite top stories

118. FlipBoard

120. Pulse News

122. News curation via the web

123. News.me daily digest

124. Scoop.it

125. Sulia http://sulia.com

126. More on social media search

127. Summer of 2012

128. Autumn of 2012

130. Introducing Graph Search

131. Discovery via friends
• People who share your interests
• People who like your photographs
• People who live in Manchester and like
restaurants in Leeds
• Films that your married friends like
• Books that my relatives like
• Photographs taken in London before 2003

132. Discovery from strangers
• People who like wargaming
– and who live in Basildon
• People who like eHarmony (a dating site)
– And who are married
• Pastors who like Ann Summers (an adult
store)
• People who like Alcoholics Anonymous
– And who work for Microsoft
– Or who work for Google

133. In other words
• With Graph Search you can look up anything
that has been shared with you on Facebook
• Other people can find things you have shared
with them

134. Privacy issues
• Control who sees your Profile on the About
Tab
• Review photographs that you have shared or
been tagged in
• Review your posts with location tags in your
activity log

135. Using Graph Search

140. However...
• It’s surprising what you can actually find out...

145. But hang on!
• Only two married men out of millions of men
who are that stupid?
• How trustworthy are these results?

146. Let’s get back on track

152. Concerns
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Should I worry about blurring out faces etc?
After all, it IS public data. Isn’t it?
Do these people know that it’s public?
What responsibility, if any, do I have for or
with their data?
• At what point do we need worry about linking
A + B data to get C, which may be private?

153. More concerns
• Up to what point can we extrapolate?
• Does ‘liberal minded’ in a ‘complicated
relationship’ mean something that others
might think is a bit sleazy?
• If we don’t think so, what about other people
who will?

154. Targeting selling
• Easy to find all the people who like Argos
• Then corrolate to those who also like
gardening
• Then who live in a particular area
• Promote a 20% off offer on lawnmowers!
• Is this acceptable? After all, it’s advertising
they might actually want!

155. Getting Graph Search
If this is what you’re seeing, then you don’t have access to Graph Search

156. Click on the cog option

157. Account settings, General Account

158. Save and you’re done.

159. LinkedIn

160. Twitter

161. Twitter Search

162. Social bookmarking

163. My feed from my network

164. Diigo

165. Pinterest

166. Some new engines

167. Soovle

168. Find people on G+
http://www.gglpls.com/

169. Visual.ly

170. Polyfetch http://polyfetch.com

171. Million short
http://gb.millionshort.com/

172. Worldometers.info

173. Lanyrd.com

174. Numberquotes.com

175. BananaSlug http://bananaslug.com/

176. And finally...
• Wayback Machine
http://www.archive.org/index.php

177. Thank you!
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