SEARCH & RESEARCH --
General (N-Z)
NeedleSearch
Mozilla users capture basic search functionality from any web
engine, site search tool, or specialized database & make it
accessible via toolbar; pre-programmed search engines edited or
removed; set up more sophisticated queries by editing url string
with NeedleSearch
net.TUTOR
29 October 2002
15 interactive tutorials teach effective Internet practices &
research methodologies; up to 30 minutes, examples &
activities; basic Internet tools, like Web browsers & email;
Essential searching skills; evaluate site's credentials &
determine accuracy. Citing Web resources; find information on
researching careers
Nextaris Internet Information
Toolkit
13 August 2004
one-click search across major engines; automatic tracking &
accumulation of personalized news; 1-click capture of web
pages/content to folders, secure sharing - access
anywhere/anytime; simple publishing; folders, blogs, web pages;
private messaging, virus & spam free; single interface; Subscribe
for 100Mb disk space, 20Mb free(From SurfWax, Inc.)
Next
generation catalogues, discovery interfaces & their role in
helping meet changing user needs 13 May
2010
Discovery layer software to provide a search experience that is
simpler & gives users more options to refine searches &
browse library resources. Software options include Innovative
Interfaces' Encore, Ex Libris's Primo, AquaBrowser and Endeca.
VuFind, Blacklight, eXtensible Catalog and SOPAC are Open Source
alternatives; list of software
options, & libraries that have implemented each;
NoodleQuest
wizard help to develop optimum Web-based search
strategy
14 October 2004
Oblique
Searching Strategies
2
August 2006
Offline
Search Tools: Best CD-ROM & DVD Indexers
6 January 2005
Okapiland Explorer
28
March 2005
search utility, RSS reader, news aggregator usesYahoo, Google,
Technorati APIs; requires Java, Google API key, Yahoo application
key, Technorati account
Online
Knowledge Discovery Resources & Sites (Marcus Zillman )
29 October 2010
Online
Research Tools(Marcus Zillman ) updated White Paper - Link
Compilation
13
January 2006
Online
Research Tools Directory(Marcus Zillman, Awareness Watch
Newsletter, V8N12 Dec 2010);
Online
Research Resources(Marcus Zillman)
28 July 2007
On
Search: the Series written between June & December of
2003
23 February 2004
essays on construction, deployment & use of search technology
(primarily fulltext search)
OpenSearch (A9)
3 April 2005
open format search result display anywhere, anytime;
backward-compatible extension of RSS 2.0, XML-based format for
syndication; return results in OpenSearch RSS; format is standard
set of XML elements, plus 3 additional elements to support
navigation between pages: 1. OpenSearch
RSS: XML format for providing open search results. 2. OpenSearch
Description Documents: XML files that identify &
describe search engine. 3. OpenSearch Aggregators: Sites, such as
A9.com, that display OpenSearch results. OpenSearch is a way for
search engines to publish search results in a standard &
accessible format.
Open Search Engine Index
23 April 2004
gathering place for ideas & pointers on community-built search
engines; discussion forums; overview of Internet & indexes;
define & design an ideal index
Open Source
Search systems available on the web
9 October
2010
Beagle GNOME's
fulltext search system based on .NET framework using DotLucene(a .NET port of Lucene) as the underlying
indexing system. It receives file system change notifications
through inotify;
Lucene(indexing system
implemented in Java) & its ports to other languages are used
by search systems such as Nutch & Beagle; Nutch is an open-source web
crawler & web search engine based on Lucene; Zettair
information retrieval system developed by search engine group at
RMIT University;
Open
Source Tools for Content Management
19 May 2006
Zope, Typo3, Midgard Project, OpenCMS, Apache Lenya, PHP
Nuke, Drupal, Mambo, Claroline, Moodle, Fedora, DSpace,
Greenstone, Cofax, Open Journal System, EPrints, eGroupware,
phpCollab, Wiki, WordPress; (13 May 2009)Fedora Commons & DSpace Foundation are merging
to form DuraSpace;
Page monitors, etc.
2 April 2004
Watchthatpage & Wisdomchange let you
monitor unlimited pages free; more sophisticated options include Copernic Tracker & Website Watcher client side
application for Windows; see summary of a
selection of page monitors, ChangeDetect above &
Trackle; Xpulse free
website monitoring; desktop program Website Watcher; See
also Alert
services; PubSub
finds, monitors blogs & web feeds free; monitor newsgroups
& US financial filings; Link Ranks page tells which domains
discussed in blog & web feeds; TrackEngine;
Google
Reader page- monitoring feature monitors pages with or
without RSS feeds; Monitoring Web
Page Changes; Page2RSS,
Google Reader
& ChangeDetection.com;
25 Dec 2011: Monitor
just about any webpage for changes with Diphur;
Pandia goalgetter: A short & easy
search engine tutorial
5 May 2003
Pandia Powersearch:
All-in-One List of Search Engines
21 Auust 2006
Pandia
Metasearch Engine, Pandia Radio
Search & Pandia Plus Web Directory;
Search for files, images, music & video; specialized search
tools; online references: dictionaries, RSS & blogs, ezines,
discussion, encyclopedias & dictionaries;
Peer-to-Peer(P2P)
search tools: information stored on users computers grows
with network 28 July 2009
Personal
Information Managers (PIM)
3
February 2003
Free
Ecco
Pro download See also PIMS
(Part 2) (The Naked PC Thursday, January 30, 2003 - Vol. 6
No. 03);
Personalization:
Google's Search History vs.Yahoo's MyWeb
18 May 2005
Personalized
Search See also Social
Networking
February 2005
My Yahoo! - save, annotate,
search listings; My
Jeeves; Google has no plans for search memory-style tools;
personalization restricted to Google Personalized
Search beta service that alters things based on interest
areas & Google's
Site Flavored Search which operates similarly for publishers; Looksmart gained
personal web ring with acquisition of Furl.net
web page clipping & archiving;
Phil Bradley: The Phil Bradley
home page
2 December 2001
for librarians, information professionals, web site designers:
Introduction to Internet, Internet tools for advanced searcher,
Search engines, Searching quicker, Finding images on the web,
Discussion lists, Meta tags, Creating web pages for information
professional; .last updated date; Phil
Bradley's
search page, Finding
information:
search engines
Piccolo search
3 September 2002
Integrated kit; search engines, specialized gateways, hot &
cool listings regional search guides
Phrase
searching
18 January 2011
Skill
Kit: searching for phrases in PubMed(NLM Technical
Bulletin, Jan-Feb 2011);
Post-processing
tools
3 December 2004
store, organize & present your research - Onfolio; AskSam's Surfsaver; Catchtheweb; ContentSaver; HTTrack; Keepoint;
Netsnippets
Powering up
with predictive search(FUMSI)
12
October 2011
predictive search is about drawing on what one knows about how
& where different types of information are commonly
communicated;
Privacy
Options for Searchers
24 July
2007
Online
Search Privacy Urged(PC World, 22 July 2007) AskEraser
will let searchers set privacy options including opting not to
retain any data; plans to remove links between search data &
IP addresses after 18 months; Microsoft
Offers Privacy Options for Its Search Engine(New York Times,
23 July 2007); Google
to Let Cookies Expire Sooner(TVC Alert Research News, 17
July 2007);
Programmable Search Engines (US
Patent 7693830 Google
acquisition)
12 April 2010
US20100250513, Aggregating
context data for programmable search engines;
Proximity
8 April
2004
No search engine can match Alta Vista's discarded(June 2004) NEAR
or WITHIN operators; see also ZapMeta
& Kartoo
- NEAR searches 2 close words on same page; Google's asterisk placeholder is clumsy
e.g to search equivalent of implants WITHIN 3 malpractice on
Google, search “implants * * * malpractice”, “implants * *
malpractice”, & “implants * malpractice” & submit 3
searches again with terms reversed (“malpractice * * * implants”,
etc.) This Google
tool(GAPS) can make it a bit easier; Magellan
Metasearch beta-2..
Gigablast; RSS
Search Engine Feedster; Exalead; 11 July 2010:
Bing search syntax
including near: operator & is only engine to support
full boolean operators; See also AROUND
operator in G searches for more specific results;
Pubsub subscribe(free) &
provide search terms in 1m+ weblogs & information streams
1
May 2004
Q's Reference Room Designed by Quan Jones 15 December 2001
Quero free toolbar for Internet
Explorer
24 May 2995
profiles search engines & services such as Google, MSN Search,
Wikipedia, Amazon; highlights your search term within page; Flash
Blocker; pop-up blocker
QueryTracker
20 April 2004
continuous query system implemented on top of Google™ search engine; name
queries using text string identifier & enter corresponding
query terms; run search every 24 hours to identify new links;
enter feedback on which links are or are not relevant
Query
transformations & their role in Web searching by general
public
23 October 2006
analytical methods based on query similarity developing an
improved understanding of how people search Web;
Quick Search
on Internet article by Richard A. "Red" Lawhern,
Ph.D.,1996; recently updated 13 January 2002
QuickStudy: Library
Research Guide
21 November 2003
U of Minnesota(UM) Libraries; 8 modules on library research
techniques - choosing topic; designing research strategy; finding
different kinds of sources (articles, books, internet sites);
evaluating sources; essential citation information.
Ranking
Search Results
12 September 2009
RDF(Resource
Description Framework) triples make web connections
23 Septmber 2010
Real Time
Search (From static
to realtime search, John Battelle)
26 April 2009
Twitter Power Search;
Scoopler: real-time
search for social content; Scoopler: real-time
search for social content; Twitter Search (review);
OneRiot
IE8 Add-On for real time search; See also Real-Time
Web: A Primer, Part
1; Part
2; Part
3;
Recommended
Reading for IR Research Students
7 January 2006
Recommended
search strategy: analyze your topic & search with peripheral
vision
28 December 2008
Refdesk
8 March 2008
free, family-friendly web site that indexes & reviews quality,
credible, & current web-based resources.
Reference Desk: tips on using your wits 6 August 2009
Research
101
8 December 2003
interactive online tutorial for student introduction to research
skills; how to select a topic & develop research questions,
select, search for, find & evaluate sources
ResearchBuzz
monthly archives
13 June 2004
Researching
with the World Wide Web
10 July 2006
Research Q
& A
23 April 2003
new section of The Virtual Chase; browse or search the archive;
submit a question or answer by email.
Research Resources (Marcus
Zillman, November
2009 V7N11 Awareness Watch Newsletter) 1 November 2005
Research Strategies: finding your way through the information fog; textbook by William Badke 31 May 2003
Research
- Web Searching(Web Search Guide)
27 February 2011
Resurrect
Pages Firefox add-on
27 November 2006
for 404 message or which version of a page search engines have in
their cache; try 5 page cache/mirrors in turn: CoralCDN, Google
Cache, Yahoo! Cache, Internet Archive & MSN/Live Cache; search
engine caches usually retain copies for days or, at most, weeks
but Internet Archive may have copies back to 1996. If you have
Firefox 2 you may need Nightly Tester Tool to persuade Firefox
that Resurrect Pages is compatible;
Rich
Snippets (Google) See also Schema.org
21 Aug 2011
initially enabled for Reviews, People, Video & Events; Rich snippets markup for
music introduced
Aug 2011;
RoboForm search toolbar &
password manager
14 June 2005
Works with IE, browsers based on IE & browsers based on Gecko
(Mozilla, Firefox, Netscape 7) & other supported
browsers; recognizes forms on web pages & captures saved
logins; passwords protected by master login; safenotes to securely
store ATM passwords, Social Security no's, Amazon client ID info;
.searches Yahoo by default & configurable to search Google,
MSN, Ask Jeeves & other search tools; 30 day free trial, US$29.99
for upgrades; support for USB, Palm or Pocket PC devices costs
$9.99 each
Save
searches option
29
June 2006
Google's Search
History tracks search queries & bookmarks labels,
annotates sites visited; identifies search trends & frequent
search words; sign in to Ask.com's
Saved Results organises saved pages in folders; add tags,
& sign on at Amazon for A9.com's
Diary to annotate pages, drag & drop folders; site info
link displays information from Alexa
about site, including People who visit this site also visit; &
traffic statistics; Yahoo!'s
My Web 2.0; AOL Saved Searches feature; Google Desktop utility
archives web sites visited;
Schema.org Pimp-up search
engine results with Schema.org semantic markup
25 April 2012
provides a collection of schemas(html tags)webmasters use to
markup pages in ways recognized by major search providers. Search
engines including Bing, Google, Yahoo! & Yandex rely on this
markup to improve display of search results;
Scrapers See Web Data Extractors
Search.1.x forum
15 September 2008
Search 2.0
See Externalities
of Search 2.0: The Emerging Privacy Threats when the Drive for
the Perfect Search Engine meets Web 2.0 (Michael Zimmer, First
Monday Volume 13, Number 3 - 3 March 2008)
Search
& Navigation Tools: Digital Librarian (Margaret Vail
Anderson, Cortland, New York) 19 September 2001
Search
& Research
12 July 2003
Tools, technologies & services that facilitate & augment
our ability to search information spaces rapidly, effectively,
easily
Search
a Site with Tags
21 June 2006
SearchBar
22 August 2002
free; work with any search engine or site; memorizes how you
search, replicates search pattern; change search term &
replicate other search variables with 1click ; download.advanced
searches of Microsoft KnowledgeBase, TechWeb site, Langa.Com site,
Google Usenet/Newsgroups archives,online dictionaries, price
search sites enhancements to SearchBar in preconfigured
form.
Search Behavior Patterns 10 February 2008
Search
blogs
17 January 2009
Search Done Right
(Vivisimo); Federated
Search Blog(Deep Web Technologies); ResourceShelf ;
Search Engine Watch
Blog; John Battelle’s
Searchblog;
SearchDay
- RealSearch with Internet Explorer - 16 July 2001
4 August 2001
enter your query into IE's address window, prefaced by name of
search service, RealSearch executes, covers new date range search
feature on Google.
SearchDay
- Special Search Tools Products Issue - 8 November 2001
8 November 2001
update on developments in search products; Avi Rappoport,a
respected expert on this subject, operates an outstanding site on
subject, SearchTools.com.
Search
Education Evangelism (Google)
3 March 2012
See also SearchReSearch
blog about search, search skills, teaching search, learning how to
search, learning how to use Google effectively, learning how to do
research. It also covers a good deal of sensemaking &
information foraging; See also Search
education website:
Search
engine builders
13 August 2006
Yahoo!
Search Builder; standard Yahoo! web search adding site
search for a particular domain, & news search from Yahoo!;
enter 1 site/line, in quotation marks ; choose size & colors
of search box & include tag cloud; add text & logo to
search results; not able to restrict searches to sites of
your choice. It will give priority to sites listed, but may also
include web pages from other sites in results; see also Rollyo & Eurexter;
Search
engine comparison tools
Compare
Hakia to Google, Yahoo, MSN Live Search; run parallel
searches with Google & Bing at Bingandgoogle;
Search
Engine Detective
15 February 2007
Pandia's resource section for
search engine intelligence lists best search engine oriented sites
& blogs on Internet
Search Engine Newsletters, Lists, & Discussion Groups 27 September 2003
Search
Engine Optimizer software
4 January 2005
keeps track of 62+ items on a web page to be checked
BEFORE submission to search engine; search engine
compliance check like an HTML validator
Search Engines 2
2 September 2004
directory of 12500+ links to local, regional, national, &
foreign internet search engines, web directories, pay per click
search engines & meta search engines
Search
Engines & Directories A-Z
4 November 2005
search engine & web directory news, information, commentary,
opinions, profiles, howto's, & analyses; free
e-newsletter;
Search Engine Showdown (Greg R. Notess) 27 September 2003
Search Engine Watch(Danny Sullivan) 27 September 2003
Search Engine Watch Forums 10 June 2004
Search Engine Wiki
(beta) dedicated to search engines & search engine
marketing
16 November
2007
list of search engines for 200+ countries; glossary of terms used
in SEO, PPM, and related fields; list of search engine marketing
blogs, search industry conferences & events;
Searcher
2 September 2003
search & retrieve engines, indices, databases, etc; .pages
with multiple search forms; multiple search devices that check
several databases at once
Searchers' Swiki
8 February 2003
information professionals collaborate on searching experience.
Unlike newsgroups, this information can be indexed & linked
for quick access.(Alternate
Site )
Search
for Better E-Discovery Tools
25 April
2008
outlines technologies for improving on keyword and Boolean queries
for electronic discovery & covers methods of concept
searching, including clustering, use of taxonomies &
ontologies, & Bayesian search systems;
Search
History
6
May 2005
Google's
Search History free subscription; tells what you searched on
day & content of pages visited; Yahoo's
MyWeb adds special links to search engine result pages
allowing you to save results, exclude web pages from future
searches, select folder & add comment, cache copy of page,
search content of saved pages; free subscription; Ask Jeeves &
A9 provide similar services
Search
information managers
27
March 2004
Onfolio embeds itself in Web
browser; collect, organize, share search results; 1-click buttons,
tabs, Explorer-style file system; search activities captured,
organized & customized within Onfolio file structure;
professional edition for rapid publishing to Web site or as RSS
syndication feeds; 30-day free trial; standard edition for $30,
professional edition at $80; see also delicious, Furl, Content Saver, Eurekster, Orkut; Gleanr
understands collected value of your assets, stores them for
future use, encoding them into a personal index(like a
search engine's index) that organizes your web presence:
ideas, resources, people, places, events, emails, documents;
accessible from any Internet-connected computer
Searching
& Researching the Internet & World Wide Web
28 December
2008
Searching as
teamwork
9 August 2011
SearchTeam:
Collaborative Asynchronous Searching, Greg Notess, Information Today
(Aug 8);
Searching
Fee-based Services on a Budget (SearchDay December 4, 2002 -
Number 413) 6
December 2002
Professional researcher Mary Ellen Bates explains how to search
LexisNexis, Dialog & Factiva using reasonably priced
pay-as-you-go options.
Searching
the
Internet(National Library of Australia) including Web
2.0
8 August 2007
Searching the
Internet Primer (Marcus Zillman's Virtual Private
Library)
31 May 2009
Search Engines powered by bots searching for meta description
& keywords; Indexes & Directories menu driven subject
trees/directories; Intuitive Search; Custom Search & Deep Web
Search; April
2012;
Searching
the Internet Effectively
9 January 2005
Searching the
Internet (Phil Bradley)
5 June 2006
Searching
the Internet using brains & bots
27 March 2004
Searching the
Internet (Zillman)
1 May
2008
Searching
the Web World Wide (SearchDay, Jan. 22, 2002)
6 February 2002
strategies & tactics from 20 expert researchers around world.
Search IQ ranks search tools; What other sites rate better or serve as good alternatives? 11 December 2003
Search Patterns(Peter
Morville)
16
November 2009
sandbox for collecting search examples, patterns, &
anti-patterns; Search
Pattern Library on Flickr examples released under Creative
Commons license for use in publications & presentations;
Search
Portfolio by Workingfaster.com
21 February 2003
research starting points selected & organized by librarians;
customizable; subject directories, special search tools, journal
articles, country information, Canadian law, company
information..US$300/yr for K12, $799 for corporations;
Search
results previewed
6 October 2009
semantic search engine DuckDuckGo
gives previews from current version of page turned into paragraphs
of text with most relevant paragraphs highlighted; Ask, Ujiko,
Nexplore & Viewzi give thumbnail preview of page;
Firefox addon Google Preview adds thumbnail previews to Google
search results;
Search
Strategies for MEDLINE in Ovid Syntax & the PubMed
translation
17 May 2008
Clinical
Hedges database contains data for year 2000 for each article
in each issue of 170 clinical journals(journal list), 161 were
indexed in MEDLINE(journal list). The MEDLINE search strategies
are on this page with links for for EMBASE, CINAHL,
PsycINFO;
Search Strategies for the Internet 30 December 2004
Search strategies using Science Citation index 2 January 2006
Search
Strategy Builder (U of Arizona Library)
19 March 2008
tool designed to teach you how to create a search string using
Boolean logic. While it is not a database and is not designed to
input a search, you should be able to cut and past the results
into most databases’ search boxes;
Search
Syntax
1 January 2008
Search
Terms Glossary
27 August 2004
browsable terms associated with searching & search
engines.From search engine specialist Avi Rappoport.
Search the
Internet
20 August 2002
Internet search tools such as Archie, Veronica, Jughead &
World Wide Web Worm.
Search
the Web More Efficiently
5 June 2006
Search the Web More Efficiently: Tips, Techniques & Strategies 27 November 2003
SearchTogether
plug-in for Internet Explorer 7.0
13 March 2008
stores all queries group members have entered & tracks
comments; search initiator can use tool to divide work among group
members; works only with Internet Explorer; requires a Windows
Live ID;
Search
toolbars (Robin Good's mini guide
)
31 July 2003
See also MSN
Search Toolbar; Search
the Web with Toolbars;
Search Tools for Web Sites
& Intranets(Avi Rappoport)
28 March 2004
information, news & advice about web site searching technology
without advertising or sponsorship;
Search Tools - Information,
Guides & News
4 December 2001
information, news & advice about web site searching
technology; search tools for web pages & Intranets
Search
Trails
18 May 2007
Trailfire - Save,
retrieve, share search trails, Trexy
& PreFound; Search
Trails:
Back to the Future: Dr Vannevar Bush 1945 seminal
paper As We May Think
describes Memex machine that augments memory & searching
powers by helping you to create & share 'trails of
association' between things in the 'common record'; (8 Dec 09) Trailmeme(Xerox) models
itself on The
Memex; destination site for Xerox
Trails promoted as a new kind of Web-based publishing
technology; includes collaboratively
filtered destination site, bookmarklet & toolbar for
consumers,& plug-ins compatible with WordPress & Media
Wiki; FAQ;
Search trend
data Yahoo!
Buzzlist versus Google Trends;
4 August 2007
Search
user experience (Things On Top)
15 August 2009
Search User
Interfaces
26 June 2009
By permission of Cambridge University Press, browsing the contents
of the book on this web site is free. Users may make one hardcopy
of the contents of the book for personal use, but not for further
copying or distribution. Users may link freely to this site but
may not post any material from the book on other web sites.;
Preface; 1: Design of Search User Interfaces; 2: Evaluation of
Search User Interfaces; 3: Models of the Information Seeking
Process; 4: Query Specification; 5: Presentation of Search
Results; 6: Query Reformulation; 7: Supporting the Search Process;
8: Integrating Navigation with Search; 9: Personalization in
Search; 10: Information Visualization for Search Interfaces; 11:
Information Visualization for Text Analysis; 12: Emerging Trends
in Search Interfaces; References; Index;
Search
Wizards Speak
13 August 2008
Semantic
Web research resources(Marcus Zillman)
8 April 2006
See also Giant
Global
Graph(Nov. 2007); Ginseng:
A Guided Input Natural Language Search Engine for Querying
Ontologies; Semantic
Web Patterns: A Guide to Semantic Technologies; The
semantic web as an operating system: with users &
permissions!; Linked
Open Data project(W3C); Linked
Data is blooming: why you should care (18 May 2009); Open
TextSemantic
Navigation software, based on OT's Content
Analytics engine which extracts meaning, sentiment &
context to guide users, $3000/m. with $10000 setup fee, 30 day
free trial;
Sense Engines see Textonomy
(Crystal Semantics’ Sense Engine)
Serendip
(1994-, Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania)
6 November 2011
"for those who ask questions without boundaries",
interdisciplinary site contains: Breaking Project space for publishing &
exploring writing, artwork, & film, Brain & behavior, Education, Science
& digital humanities; Playground interactive activities like Chance in
life & the world
& Ambiguous figures;
Serendipity Engines bringing information to users instead of making them seek it( Autonomous Search) 5 October 2010
SERPs(Search engine
results pages )
Shortcomings
of fulltext searching
26 May 2010
Similar
sites?
24
May 2008
use Google ‘related:’ option, type URL in form
‘related:www.philb.com’; Who’s
Websites like?; Web
Insuggest asks for up to 4 websites to focus a set of
results; See also Dyamic query suggestion tools aka Dynamic search
suggestion(Suggengines); similar-site; Ambiently finds semantically
connected web pages; Similar
Site Search based on user annotations or tags; 24 Jan 2010
Similicious closed; SimilarPages
requires installation onto Firefox(IE version to come); SimilarPages search
engine; 22 Jul 2011: Google's
similar
link pages moved
Single
Search: The Quest for the Holy Grail (OCLC Research
report: )
23 August 2011
Terms
like one-search, metasearch, federated search, central
index, harvesting, central index, central repository,
and many other terms are all part of the single search world
in one way or another
SiteLines -
Ideas about Web Searching
2 May 2003
weblog by Rita Vine, librarian & web search trainer, stay up
to date on key search tools & developments
Site
evaluation Evaluating
Quality & Information
Quality
16
November 2004
Sitemaps
cf Site
Map Protocol
26 November 2006
inform search engine webmasters about pages for crawling; XML
file listing URLs for site along with additional metadata
about each URL(when last updated, how often it changes, how
important, relative to other URLs in site); protocol does not
guarantee web pages are included in search engines but
provides hints for web crawlers; Sitemap 0.90 under terms of
Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License widely
adopted, including support from Google, Yahoo!, &
Microsoft;
Sites on search engines & search engine marketing 19 January 2005
Spire Project Light
Convenient search page; most effective search
tools
14
September 2001
Spire Project:
Searching the Web Unified global search engines, directories
& specialty tools 14 September
2001
Stages
in Search Behaviour By Gwen on Search Techniques
20 March 2009
Relationship between search behaviour & SERP(search engine
results page) Landscape (Part 1) - Stages of searcher behavior by Ian McAnerin,
McAnerin Muse (Feb 27) "People search differently at different
stages in their comfort levels"; (part
2);
Stemming
See Truncation
Structured
information
21 June 2010
DBpedia structured
information available from Wikipedia;
StumbleUpon
13 September
2005
free community-oriented, personalized browser add-on automates
"word of mouth" of quality web sites; combines human
recommendations with machine learning of personal preferences
& interests to filter the web & direct users to relevant,
high-quality web sites; See also Trapit:
search
without search automated finding system software registers
what a reads & performs more
like this function similar to that used in Flipboard
& Pulse, an idea borrowed from iPhone & iPad apps; See
also Websites Like, SitesLike & SimilarPages;
Successful
web search strategies (Kathy Schrock)
6
March 2006
Suggengines See Dyamic query suggestion tools aka Dynamic search suggestion
Super Searcher
Guides to the Best of the Web
3 October 2002
gateway to exceptional web sites in 10 subject areas; hand
selected links to global business, primary research, mergers &
acquisitions, news, writing, health & medicine, investment,
business, entrepreneurial research, & legal information
resources; .
Tagging
Not Likely The Killer Solution For Search (Search Engine Watch Blog, 22
March 2005) 24 March 2005
no search engine has made
use of the tag to let you see all pages tagged; see del.ico.us & Flickr for more on open tagging
systems; See also Folksonomies;
Yahoo Tag Soup;
Collaborative
Tagging as a Knowledge Organisation & Resource Discovery
Tool; 13 Tips for
Effective Tagging; Pew Research
Center Publications: Tagging Play summary of December 2006
survey about creating labels for online content; overview,
demographic data on taggers, website traffic; When
tags work & when they don't: Amazon & LibraryThing;
Powerhouse
Museum of Science & Designin
Sydney uses Reuters Open CalaisAPI
to automate tagging of their collection of 66303 objects; Tags
& Tagging: How Do You Create Good Tags?; Maximising
del.icio.us
tagging & bookmarking capabilities; 31 Mar 2012: BBC
working on automatically tagging their audio archives with
DBpedia identifiers;
TAO
of Topic Maps: Finding
the
Way in the Age of Infoglut See also Easy Topic Maps
13
October 2003
Taxonomy of
web search
10 February 2008
Taxonomies
or Search – Ending the Debate! – Part I, Part
II;
Teaching
Internet Research Skills
17 October 2002
Teaching Web
Search Skills: Techniques and Strategies of Top Trainers
(Greg Notess) 14 June 2007
Review;
Chapters & Updated
URLs;
Telson
Spur(Other Search Pages & Indices)
24 August 2008
Text
Mining: A Vision for the Future (Ariadne, No. 53) Text
mining(JISC)
3 November 2007
8 Apr 2012: Text
mining promises huge benefits but copyright law can limit its
use: JISC
report offers solution to problem by advocating copyright
exemption for non-commercial research to support text mining &
analytics, as proposed in recent Hargreaves
report; National Centre
for Text Mining(U of Manchester);
Textonomy(Crystal
Semantics’ Sense Engine) acquired by ad pepper media, March
2006 18 March 2005
UK patent extended to US utilises senses of words rather than
statistical algorithms; each word analysed for potential to
discriminate context; e.g. sense of word depression requires
relation to economics, meteorology or mental health; database
containing plurality of terms is used to define placements of
information in logical categories; plurality of terms along with
classification of associated words determine particular subject;
development programme from Professor David Crystal, world
authority on linguistics; classification system of 2000 categories
derived from an encyclopedia component of 5m+ words.
Text Retrieval Conference (TREC)
performance of various search engines reviewed
11 March 2003
Thumbshots: Exploring
Search Engine Overlap
30 April 2004
confirms Greg Notess' research: very little overlap in search
engine results; in most cases even top 10 results vary
significantly from engine to engine.
Toolbars
& deskbars See also 14
Popular Browser Toolbars Reviewed(Jan08);
24
March 2004
Tool
Kit for the Expert Web Searcher(ALA)
26 July 2006
Developed & maintained by Pat Ensor for LITA's Top Technology
Trends Committee; no longer maintained; Wiki
version, 2 August 2006;
Topic Maps & topicmap.com
Hand-crafted machine-generated knowledgeinterchange
21 October 2004
Topic
modelling
19 May 2012
Topic model
in machine learning & natural language processing is a type of
statistical model for discovering abstract topics that occur in a
collection of documents, eg Probabilistic
latent semantic indexing(PLSI) & Latent
Dirichlet allocation(LDA) a generalization of PLSI; Topic
modelling in the archives; MALLET: MAchine
Learning for LanguagE Toolkit Java-based package for
statistical natural language processing, document classification,
clustering, topic modeling, information extraction, & other
machine learning applications to text; GenSim topic
modelling package for Python;
Top Search Tips - UKeiG advanced search workshop Tales from the Terminal Room, October 2005, Issue No.65
Top 10
Internet Search Tips by Melissa Barker
7
August 2011
Top
25 Web 2.0 Search Engines
15 February 2007
Tracking
Web Pages for Changes
15 February 2007
chapter from Tara Calishain's Information Trapping: Real-Time Research on
the Web (New Riders Press, 2006) for when source doesn't
offer RSS feed or you want specific information;
Tracking
Your Search History By Greg R. Notess
6 March 2006
Trapit: search
without search automated finding system
18 April
2012
Software registers what a reads & performs more like this function
similar to that used in Flipboard & Pulse, an idea borrowed
from iPhone & iPad apps; See also Websites Like, SitesLike & SimilarPages;See also StumbleUpon;
TrendMapper
30
April 2005
generates historical data & chart from search engines daily
search for list of search phrases
Truncation
8 Aprill 2004
Alta Vista allowed truncation (*) to search variable word
endings; MSN Advanced
Interface features a stemming option but not Google;
Use
of
Stemming in Search Results(May 2008);
UK eInformation Group(UKeiG,
formerly UKOLUG)
3
April 2010
professional body for users & developers of electronic
information resources; Blog;
e-journal eLucidate
focuses on popular and emerging topics in electronic
information; free Factsheets
regularly updated by experts; LIS-UKEIG
Discussion List members forum to exchange information on
developments in information resources online, CD-ROM or
Internet;
Unclustering
results (uncluster returned pages from same website
in Google results)
27 November 2006
Normally G shows you just 2 pages from one site & you
click on More results from link
to see all. To uncluster results, run your search as
normal & then add &filter=0
to end of URL; In Yahoo add &dups=1
to results page URL;
Universal
search
6 October 2007
Google invented practice of including with web results other
content types such as news, images, video; See Ask3D(3Ds of
searching - query expression, investigating results, & digging
deeply into content);
Unusual
Power Web Searching Commands (Greg Notess; Online
V. 27 No. 6 — Nov/Dec 2003) 2 December 2003
URL searching N.B. Google Advanced Search option & See SRU Search/Retrieve via URL
Using
the Right Search Engine at the Right Time
1 May 2005
Virtual Acquisition
Shelf & News Desk
17 October 2001
Blogs (Weblogs) record sites, tools & resources. One of the
best is run by Gary Price (Virtual Acquisition Shelf & News Desk)
Virtual Training Suite
29 April 2002
Resource Discovery Network(RDN) collection of Internet tutorials
geared toward specific subject areas. Students with limited
Internet skills; engineering & mathematics; humanities;
physical sciences; health & life sciences; social
sciences,business, & law. Each tutorial introduces various
classifications of Internet material, including specific sites
related to subject area; Interactive quizzes reinforce some basic
principles of navigating Internet.
Visualisation tools
15
March 2008
Anacubis
visualizes Amazon, Google &
Hoover's; Grokker
2.0(US $49.95 subscription); SmartMoney's Map of
the Market for stock market data; Amazon, Google, &
LiveJournal visualization tools from TouchGraph; Google
News Map; Client software: Personal
Brain; Groxis; Best
Tools for Visualization; See also Data
visualisation; Blogscope
analysis & visualization tool for blogosphere tracks 30.8m+
blogs with 541.71m posts; Data
Visualisation Research Paper Australian Bureau of Statistics(ABS) research
paper analyses existing data visualisation tools &
techniques & highlights practical examples
displaying statistical data in a variety of ways; Flowing Data examples of data
visualization; Data
visualisation: tools & examples;
Voice search
27 May 2009
Comparing
Yahoo & Google's voice search applications(for iPhone);
Web
2.0(Searching the Internet)
14 August 2009
ind materials on Internet such as music, video, photos &
books; connect with others & share everything from news &
photos to books; 8 July 2010 RIN(Research Information Network, UK)
report: Use
& relevance of Web 2.0 for researchers;
Web Admin's Guide to Site Search Tools 21 November 2002
Web content managers(WCM)
2 September 2004
Furl,
Onfolio,
Seruku,
Surfulater, & SurfSaver
save copies of Web pages to a permanent store, search
& browse; ContentSaver
desktop-based with Internet Explorer toolbar to capture &
annotate content & Outlook-like program to search
& review saved Web pages; annotate with metadata to
facilitate searching; 30 day free trial; $US39.90; wURLdBook Internet
Intelligence; WebCite®
on-demand archiving system for webreferences(cited webpages
& websites, Internet-accessible digital objects), fory
authors, editors, & publishers of scholarly papers &
books to ensure cited web material available to future readers; 100 journals+ in WebCite
Consortium use WebCite routinely; no formal membership or
registration for individual scholars; Open Source
WCM: Commercial OS
- tools that have an open source code base but a single,
dominent commercial firm backing the project -
www.alfresco.com; www.dotnetnuke.com; //ez.no;
www.hippocms.org; www.magnolia-cms.com; Community OS - packages
available under OS licensing terms frequently bundle portal
& community functions with OS - drupal.org;
www.joomla.org(PHP based); www.opencms.org; plone.org;
typo3.org; platform orientation more friendly to developers
& power users than to casual business contributors; 12 Aug
09: Top
12 options for WCM; iCyte
highlight & save text, save sections of webpages or whole;
free, works with popular browsers, Firefox 3 or Internet
Explorer 7 or 8required to save webpage content; 10 Aug 2011:
Yahoo!
Bookmarks down for maintenance – for three months! -
stops online bookmark users from adding new pages & Yahoo!
recently sold the renowned bookmarking service delicious.com
in an effort to refocus;
Web
Data
Extractors for academic, entrepreneurial, special interest
& personal research
28 January 2011
Fighting
scrapers when Google won’t: a simple guide provides easily
implemented steps toward prevention of content theft under the
following banners: Make regular Updates; Link back to your site;
Add “Read More” URL inclusions; Truncate Your RSS; See also Data
Mining/Knowlege Management (Zillman);
Web IR & IE
22 July 2004
directory of web
information retrieval & information extraction resources
compiled by information scientist Einat Amitay; conferences
& online
proceedings;
influential people
in field, working
groups for standards, resources--tools
to help build a search engine; Links to mailing lists
& newsgroups;
selected
publications, PhD/MSc
related work, & books; related sites
Web
Library:
Building
a World Class Personal Library with Free Web Resources
1 April 2004
Webmaster World
12 January 2003
discussion forum for Web marketers; competent search engine
optimization experts, professional as well as nonprofessional;
rumors, fresh search engine news & detailed analysis of latest
trends by well know experts like Webmaster World chief himself,
Brett Tabke.
Web
Search Engines FAQS: Questions, Answers, & Issues
27 October 2001
Gary Price,Web searcher extraordinaire (see October 3, 1997 Scout Report)
reviews latest in search world; suggestions & tools; clear
& detailed review of latest in search engines "Price's
Priceless Tips," including Ten Things to Know about Google etc.
Web Search Guide
searching,
web
strategies & tools from Canadian perspective; Tutorials
2 October 2004
Web Search Guides Tutorials & Web Research Starter Kit 13 January 2003
Web
Searching Strategies(Beyond...the Black Stump)
8 July 2009
Web Searching Strategies Help & Tutorials 21 November 2002
Web
Searching with Advanced Commands (The Virtual Chase, 29 October
2007)
31 October 2007
Web search lore 21 June 2003
WebSearch University intermediate & advanced searchers new search tactics, strategies, tools 11 August 2003 .
Web
search widgets for Mac MacOS version 10.4 access to
dashboard widgets
24
January 2006
Apple web site widget
browser access to 2000+ widgets, 76
for search; Google, Google & Yahoo!, A9, Ask Jeeves;
WebSerch - The Web
Research Resource
2
December 2001
designed to aid librarians, information professionals & search
enthusiast in evaluation & selection of tools &
information sources
Website
Evaluation See Site Evaluation (above)
Website
Indexing enhancing access to information within websites; Links
in Web
Indexing. 2nd Ed. 12 June 2004
What
Is Relevancy?
6 January 2005
When and How To Search
the Net
24 June 2001
Kinds of information net can & cant be expected to contain,
when to use directories instead of search engines; listen in on
experts in usenet groups, join listservs, & post questions on
bulletin boards.
Who Powers
Whom? Search Providers Chart
9 May
2004
Who's Linking to Whom: Searching for WHO is Linking TO a Site 13 March 2004
Wikis, Blogs, RSS, & Podcasting IEEE Education Society: 2006 Distinguished Lecture Series 24 January 2006
WikiWax Dynamic Search Term
Suggestions
25
March 2005
Surfwax LookAhead
search term suggestion technology combined with Wikipedia; 600000+
Wikipedia index terms with 2000000+ LookAhead rotations;
automatically rotates Wikipedia index terms so you can find
Abraham Lincoln under Abraham Lincoln & Lincoln, Abraham; See
also Google
Suggest;
willsurf: Searching, surfing, flailing your way to info on the net 25 July 2001
Word
clouds & word cloud software(Phil Bradley, September,
2010 issue of eLucidate) 27
September 2010
Word
order in search
2
February 2010
World Wide Web Research Tools 19 February 2003
WURD Internet
Tutorial (WorldNet Users Reference Desk)
28 April 2002
Introduction; Definitions; Netiquette; Finding People; Searching;
E-Mail;Mailing Lists; Newsgroups (Usenet); Chat (IRC) FTP; Telnet;
Gopher; Spam;
WWW-VL: History: W3 Search Engines Links & resources on history & operation of search engines 14 June 2004
Yahoo! Search Developers
Network (YSDN)
7 March 2005
contains documentation,
mailing
lists, a weblog,
a Wiki (a discussion
forum), FAQ;
Yahoo! Site
Explorer
7 November 2005
see all pages Yahoo! has indexed at site or within a specific
subdomain; get list of all the out-going links;
Yo-Yo
Technique discussion about search
22 October 2004
Zeitgeist
tools(what topics are popular based on search
volume)
2 September 2007
Yahoo! Buzz: subject's buzz
score is percentage of Yahoo! users searching for that subject on
a given day, multiplied by a constant to make the number easier to
read; Google Trends; Wikirage(based on number of
edits to Wikipedia articles) top 100 most edited articles over
past hour, 6 hours, day, 3 days, week, month; historical
graph of edits for past 4 weeks; relative ranking over time;
Zillman Columns Site
& Archives
27 December 2011
2011 & all previous columns since 1996 by Internet expert,
author, keynote speaker and consultant Marcus P. Zillman, M.S.,
A.M.H.A;