Category: Searching

Google Fight : Make a fight with googleFight An amusing little application – just enter two terms, and see which has more entries in Google. Purely for fun, but an amusing little aside!…

A9.com > OpenSearch The idea behind Open Search is that any search tool can generate results in such a way that they can be imported to other tools – rather as RSS feeds can be sent to web pages, RSS readers etc. It’s based on the same XML as RSS….

Search optimization, not search engine optimization This supports a point I’ve tried to make to students on several occasions – quite often it’s poor search terms that lead to poor results … but trying to convince some of that. From the point of view though of the WDIE course, where they are Webmasters/ mistresses, clearly…

Creative Commons Search Yahoo have now got (in Beta), an option that will just search Creative Commons material. CC state on their site Creative Commons offers a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors and artists. We have built upon the “all rights reserved” of traditional copyright to create a voluntary “some rights reserved”…

The Guardian has reviewed a set of search engines, Google, Yahoo! and MSN feature of course, as well as some less heard of sites. I’d heard of IceRocket, though only because I’d seen it reviewed elsewhere, but Mooter was one of those listed that was new. It’s another like Clusty that not only groups things…

I’ve just found another program put together by Marumushi – who have done FlickrGraph, which I’ve already mentioned. This one is NewsMap – which shows different news items round the world. It’s presented in a different manner than FlickrGraph – and worth a look….

Google’s latest plan, as well as Google Scholar and Google Suggest is to start to digitize the material contained in the library at Harvard (some 15 million items). John Battelle has a couple of entries on his blog about it. ( Google Library and Google to launch)…

Google Scholar OpenURLs – Firefox Extension This is an extension for Firefox that will link into the OpenURL service. OpenURL is a protocol that will alter a general URL (such as those provided by Google) to one specific to your location. However, your location needs to have an OpenURL service, and as far as I…

Google Scholar Google’s latest offering, this time to search academic sources: ” Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories…

BBC NEWSHaving just had a tutorial during which the students were looking at different search tools, both from the point of view of the searcher and the webmaster, I returned to my office and found this article had been posted at the BBC in the interim. Seems like the Butler was doing very well today….