picks jan1 7
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Phil’s weekly picks
January 1 – 7 2008
http://www.philbradley.typepad.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
• 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
• 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 [email protected] or via my website at http://www.philb.com