Leveraging Knowledge Finding Stuff June 29 2006

Leveraging Knowledge – Finding Stuff June 29, 2006 Power Google, Super Sites, and Cool Stuff Larry Chait and Associates, Inc. 0

Links • These slides have many links to Web content for “finding stuff” • If you click on a hot link (usually underlined words in blue – with a couple of graphics also “hot”), you’ll be taken to that site • If you want to see a URL without going to the site, hover your mouse over a link and the URL will appear • If you want to save a link in your favorites, when the link appears, right click and select the option to do so 1

Google Spreadsheets Create, store and share spreadsheets on the web. Google Notebook Clip and collect information as you browse the web. Google Trends See what the world is searching for Google Mars View some of the most detailed maps of Mars created by NASA scientists Google Page Creator Create your own web pages, quickly and easily Google Transit Plan trips using public transportation (currently in Portland only) Google Reader Use Google's web-based feed reader to keep up with what's important to you Google Web Accelerator Save time online by loading web pages faster Google Ride Finder Find a taxi, limousine or shuttle using real time position of vehicles Google Suggest As you type your search, Google offers keyword suggestions in real time Froogle Mobile US | Froogle Mobile UK Improved! Search for products from your mobile phone using Froogle Google Sets Automatically create sets of items from a few examples 2

Graduates of Labs Google Video Search TV programs and videos Personalized Search Get the search results most relevant to you Personalize Your Homepage See information you care about on your Google homepage Google Maps Get maps, driving directions, and local business information Google Scholar Search through journals, abstracts and other scholarly literature Google SMS (US) | Google SMS (UK) Get precise answers to specialized queries from your mobile phone or device Google Desktop Find all your information, whether on the web or your computer Google Groups 2 Create and join searchable discussion groups and mailing lists Google News Alerts, Web Alerts Receive email updates when news breaks or when pages get added Search by Location Restrict your search to a particular geographic area Google Glossary Find definitions for words, phrases and acronyms 3

Other Google-related Stuff Google’s Froogle shopping search Google Catalog Google’s Catalog shopping search Google News Search and browse 4, 500 continuously updated news sources; offers customizable interface Google Alerts (not Google product) Monitor professional interests and track entire Web, sending new results by daily email Google Books Search full text of books to find ones of interest and learn where to buy or borrow them Google – all in one place Unofficial site that gathers all Google services on one page GOOGL (46645) Google by Cell – Send text message to GOOGL (46645); Google results sent to cell phone Google by emailto: google@6 url. com Send search term in subject line; top 10 results returned via email Google help (research for $) More than 500 carefully screened researchers answer questions, for as little as $2. 50, usually within 24 hours, with satisfaction guaranteed 4

Google Tricks and Techniques – Scratching the Surface numrange: [year. . year] Finds all years, from start through end define: [word] Gets definitions of words, abbreviations OR or | Excludes word; e. g. , [Hamlet (pizza | coke)] finds Hamlet with either pizza or coke site: [domain] Restricts search to specific domain type; e. g. , [site: edu] or [site: it] filetype: [extension] Restricts results to listed extension; [-extension] excludes that extension [*] Each “*” substitutes a wildcard word into the search string Stocks: [ticker …] Google treats “tickers” as stock symbols and links to a page showing stock information for those symbols 5

Finding People, Places, and Things Phone Searches [name, city, state] Searches for anything that looks like a phone number rphonebook: [name, state, city] Returns residential phone number bphonebook: [name, state, city] Returns business phone number [phone number] Reverse lookup – returns the owner of a listed, landline phone Web People Searches Pretrieve – Public record search engine – free Zoominfo – Searches for people, companies, relationships – for free Searchbug – People/company finder – some free, others fee-based Humanoids – Get to a human being; bypass the voice-response labyrinth Expert. Click – Find experts by knowledge category 6

Finding People, Places, and Things Map Searches Google Maps – Powerful, user-friendly, draggable maps with local business information, satellite imagery, and directions Searches Built on Maps Traffic – Web cams, weather, news; built on Google Maps Road Reports – Construction, etc. ; built on Google Maps Cell towers – built on Google Maps Pedometer – Mark and measure a route on a Google Map Houses and Apartments – Craig’s list shown on a Google Map Earthquakes - Earthquakes around the globe shown on a Google Map Weather Bonk – Temperature at hundreds of sites, plus weather, plus Web cams all shown on a Google Map Cheap Gas – Lowest gas prices shown on a Google Map Zillow – Find the values and details of 60 m homes shown on a Google Map 7

Finding People, Places, and Things (Click on graphic) 8

e. Biz. Search – Web, academic, commercial articles e. Library – Books, articles, Papers, pictures, and maps Find. Articles – 300 sources High. Wire – 12 mil. articles in 4, 500 Medline journals Pub. Med – Access to over 12 million Medline citations JSTOR Online – Full-image academic journals World News Connection – Foreign news aggregation Cite. Seer – Citations for scientific documents O'Reilly Safari – Electronic technical books Philosophy Research – Books on philosophy Search-e. Books. com – Full-text index of e-books Cyber. Journalist – Search as if you were a journalist Mergent Online – Databases: Moody's, EDGAR, etc. 10 K Wizard – Search EDGAR Niche Search – Selected from PC Magazine – 052703 (note: not all are free) http: //www. pcmag. com/article 2/0, 1895, 1046954, 00. asp Finding People, Places, and Things Publications and Databases 9

Biography Resource – Find people by personal facts Ask. ERIC – Educational Resources Asiaco – Asia-related topics GPO Access – All about the government Nature. Serve Explorer – Nature information, US/Can. Public. Libraries. com – Find all types of libraries Search. Edu. com – Search educational sites Search Engine Colossus – Search for search engines Integer Sequences –Tells rationale behind a series of numbers Volunteer. Match – Search by area, interest, schedule Incy. Wincy – Crawls Invisible Web Acronyms – Get their definitions Niche Search – Selected from PC Magazine – 052703 (note: not all are free) http: //www. pcmag. com/article 2/0, 1895, 1046954, 00. asp Finding People, Places, and Things Topical 10

Larry’s Really Cool Stuff! Google. Fight – Find which of two terms has more hits Reverse Dictionary – find words related to an entered concept Today’s Front Pages – Front pages of 400 global newspapers Newsmap – “See” the constantly changing landscape of Google news Watching. America – See global opinion about the United States Predicted Airfares – Plan for cheaper flights Cheapest Flights – A meta-search fare finder Detect Spoofs – Know what site you are on Interlocking Boards – Create maps of interlocking board memberships Save on Gas – AAA has a site that tells you where to find it cheap(est) Google vs. Yahoo #1 – Displays side-by-side results Google vs. Yahoo #2 – Displays sites in both, only Google, & only Yahoo 11

Just for Fun Lefthanders & Dyslectics – Turn the world upside down – or side to side Google. Fight – Find which of two terms has more hits Speech Accents – Hear people around the world speak English Einstein’s Blackboard – Add your text to Albert’s blackboard! Warning Labels – Quickly generate your own Custom Covers – Create magazine covers using digital photos Dialect-icizer – Convert English into comical dialects 12

Bonus – Search Sites, Metasearch Engines Search Sites Search Engine Guide – With reviews, comparisons, and characteristics Pub. Sub Matching Service – Reads sources, notifies on matches Snap for Relevance – Improves the relevance of search results Gigablast – Up-and-coming engine with HTML and non-HTML files, cached copies, Boolean, and links to multiple old copies of sites Clusty – Combines multiple sources, gives categorized, clustered results Answers. com – An “encyclodictionalmanacapedia” – comprehensive reference work, branded: “the first stage of research” Vivisimo – Web search with automatic categorization Metasearch Engines Fagan. Finder – Single-site access to multiple, selectable sites Copernic – Metasearch engine, with notifications Pro. Fusion – Metasearch engine; drills into vertical, search-engine groups Complete. Planet – Covers 70, 000+ databases and specialty search engines; finds highly topical, Deep-Web information 13

Bonus – More Niche Engines Sphere – Blog-only search Feedster – Largest archive of indexed web feeds: news, blogs, podcasts Scirus – Scientific information, filtering out most general sites Indeed. com – Job-search, covering job boards and newspaper classifieds Foodieview – Feature-rich recipe search engine with broad coverage Ditto – Free image search, covering 500 million pictures List of Lists – Categorized database of ranked listings of companies, people, and resources available on the Internet Singingfish – Finds free, multi-media audio/video content Pub. Med Tool – Clean, simple-to-use, powerful Pub. Med interface Glossaries – Searchable, categorized directory of glossaries & dictionaries Librarians’ Internet Index – Searchable, browsable collection of quality websites, identified and categorized by librarians Info. Mine – Librarian-built, scholarly resource collection covering tens of thousands of sites, grouped into nine annotated, indexed categories Direct. Search – Invisible Web compilation; data not otherwise accessible 14

Bonus – More Niche Engines Government BRBPub – Full data on 26, 000+ government agencies and 3, 500 vendors that maintain, search for, or retrieve public records Mammoth – Information from governments: US, state, and local Fas and Cryptome – Access declassified government pages/documents City Data – Data on 100 s of US cities Country. Reports – 26, 000+ pages of statistical and cultural County data Legal Dockets – Litigation, bankruptcy, criminal, warrant et al records Find. Law – Highest-trafficked, most comprehensive legal Web site Journals, All Include Invisible Web Open Access Journals – 2, 000+ free, full-text, scientific and scholarly journals (~100 K articles); covers science and humanities/social sciences High. Wire – 1. 3 million free, full-text, life-science articles Mag. Portal. com – Keyword & browse access to free articles from 200 mags. Find. Articles – is a free/and fee), searchable, 10 million+ article archive with content from leading academic, industry, and general interest publications 15

Bonus – Search Engines Statistics and Data Refdesk – “Single best source for facts” Niles. Online – Access to data on the Internet Statistics. com – Browse for data Search. Systems – Public records directory CIA Factbook – World facts from the CIA Search Engines Searchability – Listing of specialized search engines and how they work Invisible Web Access – Links to invisible Web directories & search engines Engine. Guide – Access thousands of engines, directories, and databases Beaucoup – 2500+ specialized search engines, directories, and indices Virtual. Free – 1, 000+ search engines for fast and uncomplicated use Multi-access – Specialized, general and academic indexes and engines Finder. Seeker – Browse/search hundreds of engines in 27 categories 16

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