Update to Google Search Operators
Courtesy of Tara, this link to the updated Google Help: Cheat Sheet. See also Google Q-card for more search operator tips.
Category «Search Engines»
Adobe and Yahoo Announce Strategic Alliance
From the Adobe press release: “This week Adobe will introduce a co-branded Yahoo! Toolbar that will provide users with access to Yahoo! products including AntiSpy, Pop-Up Blocker and Yahoo! Search, as well as Adobe products such as Create Adobe PDF Online, a web-based service that provides consumers and small businesses easy access to creating documents …
Learn More About Google Desktop Search
David Pogue of the New York Times reviews (reg. req’d) the recently introduced, free Google Desktop Search. The author provides a witty, concise, informative narrative (he also contrasts this app with rival offerings), and if you have Real Player, you can also see him demonstrate the service on video.
Search Engines Used to Screen Potential Employees and Employers
Is your boss Googling you?
Lawyers, Judges, Fact Checking and Search Engine Reliability
From the ABAJournal.com, In Google We Trust? Critics Question How Much Judges, Lawyers Should Rely on Internet Search Results.
Google Launches Free Tool To Search Your PC
From the FAQ: “Google Desktop Search is…a desktop search application that provides full text search over your email, computer files, chats, and the web pages you’ve viewed. Search email from Outlook 2000+ and Outlook Express 5+ Search files in TXT, HTML, DOC, XLS, and PPT formats (Office 2000+) Search chats from AOL 7+ and AOL …
Guide to Online Research Browsers
Online Research Browsers, PDF, 13 pages, by Marcus P. Zillman.
Google Print Does Not Include OCLC WorldCat Records
As a follow-up to my October 6 posting, Google Launches Feature to Read Book Excerpts and Links to Purchase, from the Library Journal (reg. req’d), Google Goes Inside the Book, But No Link to Libraries. At this time, Google is not indexing OCLC’s Open WorldCat program records as part of their new service, and indicates …
Google Launches Beta Service for Wireless Devices and PDAs
“Google SMS (Short Message Service) enables you to easily get precise answers to specialized queries from your mobile phone or device. Send your query as a text message and get phone book listings, dictionary definitions, product prices and more. Just text. No links. No web pages. Simply the answers you’re looking to find.” [Link to …
Google Launches Feature to Read Book Excerpts and Links to Purchase
This news may remind readers of Amazon’s Search Inside the Book service, launched last October. But this time the source is Google, who announced that their Google Print service is no longer in testing mode: “Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Since a lot of the …
Commentary on Search Engines and the Process of Conducting Historical Research
From First Monday, Internet time and the reliability of search engines “Search engines are unreliable tools for research that aims to reconstruct the historical record. Why? Some search engines systematically relocate the time stamp of Web documents in their databases from the more distant past into the present and the very recent past.”
New Search Engine Features Clustered Results
Press release: Vivísimo Launches Clusty.com – Unique New Search Site Brings the Power of Clustering to Web Search, Shopping, People Finding, Wikipedia and More [Link] Vivísimo…today unveiled Clusty.com, the first full-service search site powered completely by breakthrough clustering technology. Instead of simply presenting long lists of results, Clusty.com groups search results into folder topics, giving …
