information update may 2011
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Information Update
May 2011
Inbar Yasur
www.hipusit.info
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What I will cover
• New Google Tools
• Full Text Articles
• Productivity Tools
• New search strategy building options
• Alternative Search engines
• People Search
• Personalization
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New Sidebar options
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Google Dictionary - New Sidebar Option
• Definitions
• Synonyms
• Images
• Web definitions
• Usage examples
• Related phrases
• Related languages
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Google Dictionary - New Sidebar Option
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Synonym finder – PatentScope - Cross lingual expansion
http://www.wipo.int/patentscope/search/en/clir/clir.jsp
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Synonym finder – PatentScope - Search across Languages
http://www.wipo.int/patentscope/search/en/clir/clir.jsp
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Google Patents - New Sidebar Option
• Restrict by filing date / issue date
• Filing status
• Application / Issued patents
• Patent type
• Utility / Design / Plant….
• Sorted by relevance / by date
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Patent Search – Espacenet: New interface & capabilities
• RSS
• Export (CSV | XLS )
• Download Covers / Create Reports
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Google Recipes - New Sidebar Option
• Ingredients: Yes / No
• Cook time
• Less than 15 min/ 30 min / 60 min
• Calories
• Less than 100 cal / 300 cal / 500 cal
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Google Places - New Sidebar Option
• Clustered / Organized results
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Google Realtime - Twitter
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Google Realtime – Facebook and others
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Full Text Articles
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Full Text Articles
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Google One Pass
http://www.google.com/landing/onepass/
Google One Pass is a payment system that enables publishers to set the terms for access to
their digital content.
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Productivity Tools
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Citebite: Easily Highlight & Link to Quotes on Webpages
http://citebite.com/
Citebite is very easy to use. Just copy and paste the text that you want to quote or
source into the text box, and then also copy and paste the source URL. Once
done, click “Make Citebite” which will get you a unique link leading to the source
URL with your quoted text highlighted in the content. This makes it easier for
readers to look up the quoted text and view your article in context.
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Zapd: Create Instant Websites From Your Phone
www.zapd.com
• Extremely simple file sharing site.
• Create websites from your iPhone for free.
• More than a dozen themes available.
• Reorder elements within themes.
• Edit from anywhere.
• Share to Facebook, Twitter and email.
• Example: 2fn0.zapd.co
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Improved Google Reader
http://gears.google.com/
Open source browser extension that lets you run web applications (incl. Google
Reader) offline.
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Improved Google Reader
http://gears.google.com/
Once installed, login to your gReader account and you’ll see a small green circle
next to the right top menu. This button lets you download your feeds to your PC
and afterwards access gReader offline. Everything you have done while being
offline will be synced with your gReader account during the next time you go
online.
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New search strategy building options
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Search Tool Summary and Comparison (Google, Yahoo, Bing)
http://www.rba.co.uk/search/compare.shtml
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New Bing Search Operator linkfromdomain:
• Limit search to sites linked-to from a URL
This new operator was created to show a user what websites a domain is linking to.
It's pretty much the opposite of the "link:" operator that returns information
regarding what websites are linking to that specific domain.
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Link Popularity
http://www.linkpopularity.com/
• Link popularity is the total number of web sites that link to your site
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Searching by domains
• Gov.*
• Returns only results from countries which use the .gov. domain
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Searching by domains
• Generic Top-level Domains – Link
• Country code Top-level Domains - Link
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Specialized search engines
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GovScan: Search all local government websites
http://govscan.com/
GovScan searches more than 5,000 city, town, county, and state government
websites within all 50 United States
GovScan searches thousands of local government websites to bring you
targeted, precision results.
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Moat: Search Engine for Advertisements
http://www.moat.com/
• Search engine for ads.
• Lets you search current online ads for any brand.
• Get information like ad size and the website it last ran on.
• Share any ad through a permanent URL.
• No registration required.
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People Search
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Peepmail - Find People’s Business Email Addresses Online
http://samy.pl/peepmail/elift.cgi
Peepmail is a free to use web service that looks for someone’s company email
address. All you have to do is type in the name of the person and their company
or the company’s website URL. The site then searches the company’s domain
name and looks for your required address .
While the tool does not work with all domain names, it is still worth a try before
launching a manual email searching mission.
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Peepmail - Find People’s Business Email Addresses Online
http://samy.pl/peepmail/elift.cgi
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Folowen: Quick Social Profile Search
http://folowen.com/search
Folowen is a social profile search engine that aggregates the social media profiles
of a person from 20 different social sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter… etc
and presents the results on one single page. Hence you can easily click through
the links and follow the person.
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Identify – Firefox extension
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/identify/
Identify is a Firefox extension that makes it easy to view information about anyone
online. It aggregates person’s profile information from various social networks
and media sites and puts it all in one window.
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Waatp: People Search Engine
http://waatp.com/
A real time search engine to find people using their first and last name.
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More from Google
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Google News Archive Search
http://news.google.com/newspapers
• It's a collection of hundreds of newspapers, scanned and digitized.
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Google Public Data Explorer
Data Visualization
• 27 Datasets including more than 300 data metrics.
• Upload your own dataset with Google’s Dataset Publishing Language (DSPL),
Thank you!