A Super Searcher Shares 30 Search Tips:
Mary Ellen Bates, Bates Information Services
Todd here, reporting on an info-packed presentation!!!
Summary – Mary E. Bates is a very informative speaker who obtains great knowledge of all the tricks and tips for quicker, more personalized web searching. She was able to cram 30 of her latest tips into a tiny 45 minute window. Below are her suggestions:
1.CustomizeGoogle.com – remove ads, endless scroll, personalized homepage
2.Google Experimental Search ---
3.Simply Google – overview of Google’s features and sites
4.How to - limit your search to faces (add imagetype=face)
5.Limit to Black and White images (ask.com, live.com)
6.SearchMash – unofficial Google site, integrates blogs, wiki’s, images
7.In Google, * is a placeholder for a whole word ~example “tax ** increase”
8.GooFresh- limits Google search to only recently added sites, freshly changed content
9.more Google date-limiting—go to (advanced search screen)locate pull down menu for last 24 hours, last week
10.Doubletrust.net – compare results between Google and Yahoo
11.Use Yahoo’s Mindset Feature (mindset.research.yahoo.com) results can be sorted into two criteria = Researching or shopping
12.Use MSN’s cool synonym-suggestion tool – (snurl.com/zqyd) (keyword group detection)
13.Search.live.com – Preferred search options (add prefer:word to query)
14.Live Academic Search – (academic.live.com) instead of Google Scholar
15.Use MSN’s misspelling–suggestion engine
16.Use Ask.com Maps – both driving and walking directions (maps.ask.com)
17.Exalead.com – cool search engine with neat features
18.Exalead.com supports true wild card internal truncation
19.Use search engines quick answer feature ~ example (Google’s One box)
20.Gigablast – Don’t forget this search engine
21.SnapSearch – interacts with site before leaving search engine
22.PageBull- meta-search tool – entirely visual, all results shown in images
23.Squidoo – hybrid of a web page, interactive polls, blogs
24.Factbites.com – quick facts – max 30 results in sentence form
25.Textrunner – “information mining”
26.Nationmaster.com –source for national stats, cool graphical features
27.TouchGraph – visual clustering search engine, finds relationships between URL’s
28.Check out Podcast lectures (Yale, Stanford) (professors lectures)
29.OneLook – reverse dictionary – use the definition to find the word
30.Kosmix.com – clustering search engine – filters results by criteria
