super searcher tools & tips
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Mary Ellen continues to surprise and impress with new strategies, techniques, and tips for getting the most out of web research. Mary Ellen provides an up-to-the minute and jam-packed-with-valuable-tools-and-tips talk that’s always a popular session at Internet LibrarianTRANSCRIPT
Mary Ellen BatesBatesInfo.com
Oct. 27, 2014
Super Searcher Tools & Tips
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Google’s dictionary expands
Dictionary Cards now haveWord originTranslateUsage over time
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Google Autocomplete
Find alternatives to a product/service
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Do you Google-dork:
Malicious Cyber Actors Use AdvancedSearch Techniques
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Test your org’s vulnerabilities
filetype:csv OR filetype:xlsOR filetype:log
site:your.org
intext:username OR email ORconfidential OR .......
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Change order of search words
ocean fishing acidification
vsacidification fishing ocean
Even different number of results!
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Google: ocean fishingacidification
Google: fishingacidification ocean
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Bing: oceanacidification fishing
Millionshort.com
Long-tail researchEliminates top 100 to 1 million sitesCatches less-SEO’d sitesEssential for more complete research!Bing API
See also MillionTall.com: only top sites
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Impact of spoken search
Compare results of these queries:What is the meaning of life
The meaning of life
Meaning of life
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Can we beat Google Now?
When in Germany it shows me:€/$ exchange rateTime and weather at home and locally“Good morning” (“good afternoon” “goodevening”) in GermanNearby eventsTourist attractions…
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Can we beat Google Now?
“Predictive searching”
Knows my location, my calendar, mysearch history, my Gmail
Anticipates needs based on context
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Find info from trusted sources
(BING ONLY)ID outgoing links from a site or domainLinkFromDomain:
LinkFromDomain:msf.org ebolaretrieves pages linked-to from DoctorsWithout Borders that mention ebola
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Data-mine Academic Search
Search result frequency countsID the key authors, conferences,journals, orgs, keywords
academic.research.microsoft.com
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Digging deeper in Google, Bing
Look for databases:{topic} database
Bing only:
Find pages that link to a filetypecontains:mp3, contains:xls
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Gwittr.com
Learn about influencers & theirinfluencers
Who they retweetWhat links they shareWhat they hashtagHow much they share
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Find LinkedIn “hidden” updates
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Tineye.com
Is anyone using our photos?Did they pick up on our press release?
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And Bing’s Image Match
ID an infographic from the reportLook for use of that image
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Zanran
“Google for data”Web crawler looks for images on web pagesAlgorithm IDs tables and graphsExtracts text surrounding image“More results from this site”Supports boolean search
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Shothotspot.com
Search Flickr and Panoramio forimages of a location
Down to the address levelGet ideas for where to go, what to see
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Search the Internet of Things
Thingful.netIDs public home weather stations, Geigercounters, people’s Twitter/Facebookstats(!), bikeshare locations, air qualitymonitors, aircraft, etc.
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What’s next for Google?
United States Patent 8,839,303:You’re watching a TV show about cookingduckYou Google “duck”Google looks up what TV shows are onnow in your area, finds cooking showSearch results focus on cooking duck, notDuckDuckGo or duck hunting
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