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Tuesday, July 27th, 2010College 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 engines, [...]
Web Search by Bovee and Thill Just Updated
Friday, July 23rd, 2010Web Search is an online search tool Bovee & Thill developed that enables business communication instructors to have 334 search engines at their fingertips for quick, comprehensive searching online. “A vast number of great search engines are now available, including many specialized ones, but it often takes considerable time and effort to find the best [...]
Choose the Best Search Tool for Your Information Needs
Wednesday, July 14th, 2010This is a great guide for selecting the best search tools. View the original here.
How to Use Google Wiki
Thursday, July 1st, 2010Google has announced the launch of SearchWiki, a major addition to its user interface that allows users to edit search results. When using SearchWiki, you can re-order, remove, or add web pages to the search results for any query. You can also add notes to specific listings. You have to be logged in to a [...]
How to Search for People Across Many Social Networks
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010A new “Social White Pages” tool Snitch.name searches for a name you specify across several popular social media sites: FaceBook, Vimeo, Flickr, Wadja, Twitter, MySpace, Hi5, Friendfeed, Netlog, and LinkedIn. As a result you will see snapshots of profile pages in an iFrame and will be able to befriend the person at all social sites [...]
Choose the Best Search Engine for Your Information Needs
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010Dozens of search engines are categorized on NoodleTools by the criteria below. Use these criteria to find the search engine that will best suit your needs. I need help to define my topicI need to find quality resultsI need to do research in a specific disciplineThe timeliness of information that I need isI need factsI [...]
Today's Major Search Engines and Directories
Thursday, April 8th, 2010In the search engine list below, Search Engine Watch provides a guide to the major search engines of the web. Why are these considered to be “major” search engines? Because they are either well-known or well-used. View the original here.
Google Search May Soon Be on Your TV
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010Google is always dabbling in new adventures and ways to increase their profit margins. Their most recent endeavor is providing search engine results on live TV! Currently, Google is in the testing stages with Dish Network to create an exclusive TV programming search engine service. View the original here.
Google Goggles
Friday, March 19th, 2010Google Goggles is a visual search app for Android phones. Instead of using words, take a picture of an object with your camera phone: we attempt to recognize the object, and return relevant search results. Goggles also provides information about businesses near you by displaying their names directly in the camera preview. View the original [...]
Seven Search Engines for Finding PowerPoint Presentations
Monday, March 15th, 2010The web is the sink for every sort of document and publicly available PowerPoint files are also not beyond the reach of search spiders. So how do we search them out–using search engines of course. PowerPoint presentations make a good tool for conveying our interest and findings to others in a clean and simple way. [...]
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