picks jan1 7

Phil’s weekly picks

January 1 – 7 2008

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FuzzFind Web search

• http://www.fuzzfind.com

Fuzzfind:

• Multi/meta search engine checking Google, Yahoo, Live and del.icio.us

Google tips and tricks

• Obscure Google search tricks from Lifehacker http://moourl.com/googletips

• cache:www.philb.com

• -site:ebay.com –site:bizrate.com OR use http://www.givemebackmygoogle.com

• Faces: add &imgtype=face

• Live.com (in images) filter:face

Earthfrisk

• http://www.earthfrisk.org

• Meta/multi search engine, with GYMA searches

• Image, Video, Maps, Directory

• Vote, comment!

What’s open?

• http://www.whatsopen.com/

• Find out what's hot at any given moment. Find out where your friends, or new friends are going.

My Sponsor

• China Holidays

• http://www.chinaholidays.com

Zuula Search

• http://www.zuula.com/

• Multi/Meta search engine using GYM, Gigablast, Exalead, Alexa, Accoona and Mojeek.

• Web, Images, Video, News, Blog, Jobs

Search for Video

• http://www.searchforvideo.com/

• indexes online video clips from over 10,000 sources.

Sortfix

• http://www.sortfix.com/

• Easy automated way of excluding/including search terms

Search Wikia

• http://alpha.search.wikia.com/

• “We are aware that the quality of the search results is low.”

• “A complete let down” “miles behind the competition” “yet another crappy search service”

Other items

• Over 50 UK based search engines disappear in three years

• The list is at http://www.philb.com/cse/unitedkingdom.htm

• Google custom search engine on the fly

• I’ve added a – Web 2.0 resource search engine– UK Search engine

• http://www.philb.com

List of URLs 1

• http://www.fuzzfind.com• http://moourl.com/googletips• http://www.earthfrisk.org• http://www.whatsopen.com/• http://www.zuula.com/• http://www.searchforvideo.com/• http://www.sortfix.com/• http://alpha.search.wikia.com/• http://www.chinaholidays.com

List of URLs 2

• http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/06/wikia-search-is-a-complete-letdown/

• http://mashable.com/2008/01/06/wikia-search-miles-behind-the-competition/

• http://searchengineland.com/080107-131756.php

• http://www.philb.com/cse/unitedkingdom.htm • http://www.google.com/coop/cse/onthefly • http://www.philb.com

Thank you!

• I hope you enjoyed the presentation and found it useful.

• Contact me at philb@philb.com or via my website at http://www.philb.com