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Friday, August 1st, 2008
Search engines are very different from subject directories. While humans organize and catalog subject directories, search engines rely on computer programs called spiders or robots to crawl the Web and log the words on each page. With a search engine, keywords related to a topic are typed into a search “box.”
The search engine scans […]
Collaborate on Web Searches Live with Microsoft SearchTogether
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008What is SearchTogether?
Microsoft SearchTogether is a free Internet Explorer plug-in that allows groups of people to collaborate on web searches.
Who can benefit from using SearchTogether?
SearchTogether can benefit any group of people who are interested in investigating a topic together, such as students working on a group report, colleagues working on a joint project, or friends […]
The Ultimate Guide to Advanced Searching within Yahoo, Google, and MSN
Friday, July 11th, 2008 Have you ever taken the time to think about a search engine’s query? Is there an easy way to monitor links to your site through these queries? How advanced can searching really get?
Within this post I will show how Google, Yahoo and MSN have created shortcuts for their Search Engines.
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99 Resources to Research & Mine the Invisible Web
Monday, July 7th, 2008College researchers often need more than Google and Wikipedia to get the job done. To find what you’re looking for, it may be necessary to tap into the invisible web, the sites that don’t get indexed by broad search engines. The following resources were designed to help you do just that, offering specialized search […]
Gunning for Google
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008Recent redesigns at Yahoo!, Microsoft Live Search, and Ask.com are providing graphically rich alternatives to the minimalist search giant.
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Three Ways to Mitigate the Attention Crash, Yet Still Feel Informed
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008One of the most important skills executives need today is the know-how to manage and harness their personal information flow.
The Attention Crash is a crisis in global business that is getting worse every day. By 2009, the Radicati Group predicts that we’ll spend 41% of our time managing email. Now add […]
Find Music with Your Voice: Midoni
Monday, May 26th, 2008Anyone who’s ever had a song stuck in his or her head (and who hasn’t?) but was unable to place the title or artist is bound to think Midomi pure genius. Users need only sing, hum or whistle a few bars into their computer microphones, and this online search engine can match the tune […]
Google Spiders to Start Crawling The “Deep” Web
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008Google recently announced it will soon begin indexing the so-called "deep" web, those pages hiding behind HTML forms and other inadvertently spider-blocking HTML elements. The move will potentially open up a whole new range of webpages that were previously invisible to the search engine.
Among the possible wins for Google users is the […]
Common Errors That Kill Search Engine Ranking
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008Tricking the search engines just does not work. The search engines do not look kindly upon webmasters who attempt to deceive the search engines about the content contained on a webpage.
1. Cloaking Cloaking a website is a stealth technique used to provide a copy of a web page to search engines while […]
25 Awesome Beta Research Tools from Libraries Around the World
Monday, February 25th, 2008If you’re tired of using the same old search box on your local library website for research projects, it might be time to broaden your horizons. Try out one of these in-the-works betas sponsored by world-class libraries around the world. From academic libraries like that at MIT or renowned research centers like the Library […]
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