information updates january 2011
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Updates January 2011
Inbar Yasur
www.hipusit.info
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Google Tools
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Boutiques: A Visual Fashion Shopping Spree
http://www.boutiques.com/
• Visual shopping experience created by Google.
• Browse for clothing, bags and accessories.
• One of the most aesthetically pleasing shopping sites.
• Create your own mini boutiques.
• View similar items or go directly to the merchant to buy.
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Google Body Browser
http://bodybrowser.googlelabs.com/
• Google Maps for the human body
• Explore a body in 3D.
• The Google Body Browser is ONLY accessible using Google's Chrome
Browser*
or if you're running the Firefox 4 beta. It's also available from the Chrome 9 Dev
Channel and Chrome Canary Build
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Google Body Browser
http://bodybrowser.googlelabs.com/
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Google Books Ngram Viewer
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/
• Google used some of the data obtained from 15 million scanned books to
build Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• "The datasets are based on a subset of that corpus, weighing in at 500 billion
words from 5.2 million books in Chinese, English, French, German, Russian,
and Spanish.
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Google Books Ngram Viewer
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/
• The datasets contain phrases of up to five words with counts of how often they
occurred in each year. (...)
• The Ngram Viewer lets you graph and compare phrases from these datasets
over time, showing how their usage has waxed and waned over the years
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Google Books Ngram Viewer
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/
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Google Books Ngram Viewer
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/
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Google Advanced Search – New Search Option “Reading Level”
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Google Advanced Search – New Search Option “Reading Level”
…the numbers do not add up to 100%
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Google Advanced Search – New Search Option “Reading Level”
• Google does not give any info about how it calculates the reading level and it
has nothing to do with the reading age that publishers assign to books.
• Sentence structure?
• Grammar?
• Length of sentences?
• Length of the document?
• Terminology used?
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New Google Search Operator – AROUND(n)
• An undocumented search operator called AROUND(n) that will help you find
documents where the distance between two search terms is around ‘n.’
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New Google Search Operator – AROUND(n)
• AROUND might be useful when:
• The documents are rather long (think book-length articles)
• Searching for quotes, speeches or a song that’s stuck in your head, but you
can only think of a few words from it.
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Google Global Market Finder
http://translate.google.com/globalmarketfinder/index.html
• Helps discover keywords and translate those keywords into other international
markets.
• Translates keyword and shows the competitive landscape for that keyword.
• Plots the opportunity chart, shows search volume, bid suggestions and
competitive factor for multiple locations.
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Google Global Market Finder
http://translate.google.com/globalmarketfinder/index.html
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Google Translate Converts Text To Speech
http://translate.google.com/#
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Google Translate Converts Text To Speech
http://translate.google.com/#
The new voices are available in three new languages — Arabic, Japanese, and Korean — and provide dramatic quality improvements for 17 other languages: Czech, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish
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Google News - “Follow News” Button
http://news.google.com/
• Google News has quietly added a new button that allows you to easily
bookmark
frequent searches and create custom sections within your personalized Google
News home page
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Google News - “Follow News” Button
http://news.google.com/
Bookmarking Your Searches
Clicking on that link will bring back search results for that topic, making it an easy way to keep track of your favorite topics.
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Google Voice Search
www.google.com
• Search the web by speaking keywords
Link.
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Google Voice Search
www.google.com
• Google, Wikipedia, YouTube, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo and Wolfram|Alpha.
• Can also be added to your own user-defined search engines.
• Integrates a speech input button for all websites using HTML5 search boxes.
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Google Local Search
• Google.co.uk
• Google.De
• Google.com.au
• Google.ca
• ……
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Scroogle.org
An ad-free Google search proxy which prevents the searcher's data being stored by Google
• Search Google anonymously
• Disables all search history
• Masks IP address, blocks cookies and search history
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Google New
http://www.google.com/newproducts/
The one place to find everything new from Google
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Productivity Tools
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GE.TT
http://ge.tt/
• A real-time file sharing service.
• No need to wait for files to upload. They are ready to be shared as soon as you
select them.
• Get real-time statistics that tells you exactly how many people have downloaded
your files.
• With Ge.tt you can send the shared files on an email directly from the website. And
if
you create an account the recipient will have the option to reply directly to you.
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Short ZY
http://shortzy.com/user/login?r=frontpage
• Shortens URLs quickly and securely.
• Displays the number of views of your shortened URL
• Keeps the stats of the shortened URL secure.
• Similar tools: Bit.ly and Lip.tc...
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CloudApp
http://getcloudapp.com/
• CloudApp allows you to share images, links, music, videos and files.
• Choose a file, drag it to the menu bar and… That’s All
• CloudApp provides you with a short link automatically copied to your clipboard that
you can use to share your upload with co-workers and friends.
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CollabShot.com – Share Your Screen With Your Colleagueswww.collabshot.com/
• Grab. Share. Collaborate
• Gives you the ability to share your screen grabs with your colleagues for quick
and easy collaboration.
• Ctrl + Alt + P for Capture and Ctrl V to paste a link to the Captured Screen
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TinyGrab – Share Your Screen With Your Colleagues
http://tinygrab.com/
• Simple . Screenshot . Sharing
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ThisDay: View Historical Events That Happened On Today’s Date
Link
• Each day is a milestone in human history. Nikon welcomes you to enjoy a
brief time-traveling experience.
• What did the world witness on this day in the past?
• "THIS DAY" is a website that allows you to feel the historic events on each
date.
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Non Google News
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Realtime.springer.com
http://realtime.springer.com/
• Realtime.springer.com is a special service that gives you insight into what content
is
being read by the scientific community, all over the world, as it is happening.
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Realtime.springer.com
http://realtime.springer.com/
Realtime.springer.com currently receives input from the information platform
SpringerLink with nearly five million documents from about 41,000 eBooks, 1,160
book series, 2,524 journals and 173 eReference works. Additionally, the tool
receives feeds from the SpringerImages database with more than 2.7 million images
and from SpringerProtocols, the database of reproducible laboratory protocols in the
life and biomedical sciences.
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Realtime.springer.com
http://realtime.springer.com/
• Direct to Homepage and Journal Search
• A graph showing the number of downloads
• Direct to Springer Real-Time Feed
• Direct to Spriger Real-Time Icons
• Direct to "Springer Realtime" Keyword Tag Cloud
• Direct to "Springer Realtime" Map
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Lexisweb
http://www.lexisweb.com/
http://lexisweb.co.uk/
LexisWeb is a free search engine of legal stuff, but it also gives the last five years of
case law free, through lexisone.com. It's like a Google search engine for law, with
the added benefit that you can access huge amounts of material free.
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Newsy
http://www.newsy.com/
• A multi-source online video news service that monitors, analyzes and presents the
world's news coverage.
• Human editors summarize the news
• Links to original sources
• Example