Google

• “gene therapy” view:info
• Labs product that has list view, info view, timeline view, map view
• timeline view: dates for pages. clickable for groups of posts. Example: olympic boycott brings up things about olympic boycott of the 1980s.

Searchmash

• google with a different skin and organization
• search results, image results, blog entries, videos on results page.
• in search results- URL is main URL only, not whole string. really helpful!
• click on URL to restrict search to that site.

Google News

• has an archive (ooh!)
• news.google.com/archivesearch
• has licensed content from other sites, not just Google News.
• timeline at top. click on bars to limit to a time period. (timelines are a huge theme here!)

The .. operator

• lets you search for a range
• “wireless headphones” $50..$99
• includes decimals- found headphones priced at $59.99.
• Only works for US$
• Only works for numbers with no more than 2 after the decimal. Laws  328.4b3 to 328.4×3 won’t work.
• can do open ended- any mention of these numbers anywhere.
• nospaces!

Talk with Google

• Call Google to get an answer
• 1800-goog411
• text google 466 453
• sms.google.com
• only certain queries work

Street View

• terrain- tied it into a topo map
• plan walking routes to minimize calf burn

Simply Google

• nice site that shows you all of the things google does
• just search a certain area of google
• google subsites
• blogs- official and non

Yahoo’s Secrets

Feature :ing

• looks for pages with that feature
• feature:index just home pages (how does that work for sites with flash intros?)
• feature:table
• feature: image
• feature: audio
• feature:video

Q: how does that work with flash intros?

A: fancy openers do exclude sites from being indexed that way, but those are mainly commercial not informational or educational.

Regional limits

• region: africa
• region: downunder
• region: europe
• problem is it only does it based on domain
• lots of companies don’t use that.
• lentilasanything.com australian restuarant.
• better for nonprofit, gov, edu sites

Yahoo Search Assist

• little arrow under search box.
• Narrower Terms
• Explore Concepts
• based on search results- takes a moment to come up after you search.
• based on most relevent ranked results.

Live.com’s Secrets

Resources we love to hate, especially because it’s MS. They sometimes roll out interesting new toosl and then they disappear. What works today may not work in 2 months. less stability here.

Prefer option

• add prefer:word to search.
• Ranks those results higher.
• “hybrid car” prefer:convertible (ha!)
• do a search for hybrid cars, but if you find any page with convertible, put it at the top.
• tells it how to organize results, doesn’t change them.

Search for feeds

• hasfeed:word
• want a site that’s authoritative and keeps up with new developments
• sites with feeds are interested in keeping people up to date on the topic.
• personal sites less likely to have feeds (i don’t know about that- blogger and wordpress and popular blogging sites give you feeds automatically, no?)

has a link to

• contains: file-type
• “single stream recycling” contains:ppt
• presentations about how to introduce the concept to a community

(running out of battery, so i’m done!)