Search Engine Smorgasbord

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Search Engine Smorgasbord!

• Stacy Nowicki
• Library Director,Kalamazoo College
• ILR Workshop Fast, Cheap and in Control
• 9 March 2007
• Central Michigan University

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Search Engines NOT Google

• Clusty http//clusty.com/Metasearch. Groups
  similar results together to help narrow results
  or find relationships among items.
• Clusty optimized for the Wii http//wii.clusty.co
  m/
• Exalead http//www.exalead.com/searchProvides
  thumbnail previews of the pages in results.
  Refines by related terms, language, geographic
  location, file type, as well as audio, video,
  RSS. Also searches images.

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More Search Engines

• Gigablast http//www.gigablast.com/Refine
  searches by related topics (Giga Bits). Includes
  a directory.
• Ask.com http//www.ask.com/Formerly Ask Jeeves.
  Lists other searches on right side. Save results
  with folders and tags.
• See also AskX http//www.ask.com/?ax5Beta test
  site for Ask.com

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Some More Search Engines

• Scandoo http//www.scandoo.com/Searches major
  search engines (Google, MSN Live Search, or
  Yahoo! Ask coming soon) and rates results for
  security and offensive content
• ChaCha Search http//www.chacha.com/Search with
  a live guide that assists in real time via chat

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More Search Engines

• Zuulahttp//www.zuula.com/Searches Google,
  Yahoo, MSN, Gigablast, and Exalead

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Dont Go There

• Ms. Dewey http//www.msdewey.com/Viral
  marketing! Powered by LiveSearch (MSN)
• Scary!

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Search Google and YahooSimultaneously!

• Twingine http//www.twingine.com/
• GahooYoogle http//www.gahooyoogle.com/

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Other Ways to Google

• Sooplehttp//www.soople.com/Easy Google expert
  searching

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Visual Display

• Kartoo http//www.kartoo.com/A metasearch
  engine that represents results in a series of
  interactive maps
• Pagebull http//www.pagebull.com/A metasearch
  engine that returns results as web page
  snapshots

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Visual Display

• Quintura http//www.quintura.comVisualization
  becomes the center of user experience replacing
  antiquated listings and Boolean strings

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Create Your Own Search Engine!

• Google Co-Op http//www.google.com/coop/cse/Crea
  te a custom search engine that searches only the
  websites you choose (or all Google-indexed
  sites).Example http//tinyurl.com/2fg6xy
• Yahoo! Search Builder http//builder.search.yahoo
  .comA customized search experience for your web
  site. Personalize the results, analyze user data,
  and manage multiple experiences.Example
  http//www.breederretriever.com/

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More Custom Search Engines

• Rollyo Roll Your Own Search Engine
  http//www.rollyo.com/Create search engines
  using the sources you trust. Examplehttp//www.
  rollyo.com/devanjedi/everything_star_wars/
• Swicki http//swicki.eurekster.com/Swickis are
  a cross between search engines and wikis - the
  community can add, delete and improve the
  resultsExample http//celebrity-hair-styles-sea
  rch-engine-swicki.eurekster.com/

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Image Recognition Search

• Retrievr http//labs.systemone.at/retrievr/Searc
  h Flickr photos by sketch
• Like.com http//www.like.com/Great for shopping!

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Business Search

• Accoona http//www.accoona.com/
• SMEALsearch http//smealsearch2.psu.edu/Academic
  Business Literature Digital Library by Penn
  State. Based on CiteSeerhttp//citeseer.ist.psu.
  edu/
• Zibb http//www.zibb.com/by Reed Business
  Information

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Health Search (and more)

• Kosmix http//www.kosmix.com/

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Wiki Search

• Qwika http//www.qwika.com/

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Blog Search

• Technorati http//www.technorati.com/
• Google Blog Search http//blogsearch.google.com/

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Blog/RSS Search

• LibWormhttp//www.libworm.com/LibWorm is a
  search engine and current awareness tool for
  librarians. LibWorm collects updates from about
  1400 RSS feeds. These feeds are available for
  searching, and search results can themselves be
  output as an RSS feed.

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Photo and Video Search

• Pixsy http//www.pixsy.com/

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Audio Search

• Yahoo! Audio Search http//audio.search.yahoo.com
  /
• Pluggd http//www.pluggd.com/Search inside
  podcasts

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More Audio Search

• Podzinger http//www.podzinger.com/Also
  searches YouTube
• Podscope http//www.podscope.com/Searches audio
  and video

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Video Search

• Yahoo! Video http//video.search.yahoo.com/
• Blinkx http//www.blinkx.com/Uses visual
  analysis and speech recognition to understand
  media content

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More Video Search

• Search For Video http//www.searchforvideo.com/
• Purevideo.com http//www.purevideo.com/

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Mobile Visual Search

• Semapedia http//www.semapedia.org/Connects
  Wikipedia articles with their relevant place in
  physical space
• Mobot http//www.mobot.com/Search by camera
  phone(not live yet)

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Search for a Misspelling

• Microsoft Labs - Keyword Mutation
  Detectionhttp//adlab.microsoft.com/keyMut/defau
  lt.aspxThis tool displays common misspellings or
  alternative representations of your keywords.

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Google Goodness

• Google Finance http//finance.google.com/finance
• Specialized Searches http//www.google.com/option
  s/specialsearches.htmlGovernment, Linux, BSD,
  Microsoft, Apple
• Google Trends http//www.google.com/trendsWith
  Google Trends, you can compare the world's
  interest in your favorite topics. Enter up to
  five topics and see how often they've been
  searched for on Google over time. Google Trends
  also displays how frequently your topics have
  appeared in Google News stories, and which
  geographic regions have searched for them most
  often.
• Google Code Search http//www.google.com/codesear
  chSearch public source code
• Google weblog http//librariancentral.blogspot.co
  m/index.html
• Google Alerts

• Google News Search http//news.google.com/
• Google News Archive Search http//news.google.com
  /archivesearch
• Google Image Search http//images.google.com/
• Google Patent Search http//www.google.com/patent
  s
• Google Video Search http//video.google.com/Now
  with YouTube Content!
• Google Scholar http//scholar.google.com/
• Google Catalog Search http//catalogs.google.com/
  
• Google Blog Search http//blogsearch.google.com/
• Google Book Search http//books.google.com/

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Yahoo!

• Yahoo! Mindset http//mindset.research.yahoo.com/
  A Yahoo! Research demo that applies a new twist
  on search that uses machine learning technology
  to give you a choice View Yahoo! Search results
  sorted according to whether they are more
  commercial or more informational (i.e., from
  academic, non-commercial, or research-oriented
  sources).
• Yahoo! Site Explorer http//siteexplorer.search.y
  ahoo.com/Site Explorer allows you to explore
  all the web pages indexed by Yahoo! Search. View
  the most popular pages from any site, dive into a
  comprehensive site map, and find pages that link
  to that site or any page.
• Yahoo! Search Subscriptions http//search.yahoo.c
  om/subscriptionsYahoo! Search Subscriptions
  enables you to search access-restricted content
  such as news and reference sites that are
  normally not accessible to search engines.

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Who Will be the Next Google?

• Powerset http//www.powerset.com/
• Hakia http//www.hakia.com/

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Stay Informed!

• Search Engine Watch http//searchenginewatch.com/
  Search engine listings and ratings outdatedNews
  updated regularly
• Search Engine Showdown http//www.searchenginesho
  wdown.com/
• Includes a list of dead search enginesMany
  old pages, but blog updated regularly

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This presentation is online athttp//hdl.handle.
net/10090/123 or contactStacy
NowickiKalamazoo College269-337-5750snowicki_at_kz
oo.edu