Advanced Search: A Journalism Tools Session
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Ezra Eeman presents an overview of advanced search tools and techniques for journalists. The document provides 30+ specific search tools organized into categories like alerts, images, video, translations, location, and social. It also shares tips for refining searches on Google, Google Images, YouTube, and Twitter. Links and brief descriptions are provided for each recommended tool to help journalists find relevant information from diverse sources.
Advanced Search: A Journalism Tools Session
- 1. Advanced Search A Journalism Tools Session
- 2. Hi Everyone! Ezra Eeman, Founder @Journalism2ls Senior Strategy & Communication Advisor @RCAGroup Before Senior Journalist & Editor in Chief @VMMA Certified Advanced Google Searcher & Glass Explorer Fulbright Journalism Award Researcher @CUNY Graduate School of Journalism/Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism, New York Work/Life/Pleasure: Brussels - Tokyo - New York.
- 3. Journalism Tools. A curated collection of new tools & resources for the next generation of journalists.
- 6. Questions are the answer Think in questions. How would you write the information you are looking for? What could be near the search term? Know any synonyms? q Mind the word order ‘red white’ gives you a different result as ‘white red’ Spelling is important, Capitals are not a Keep it Simple Try to search with 2 – 3 words “ Don’t use sentences Use combination of words rather than full sentences r Think broad If you don’t have a lot of information start with general queries and narrow down as you go. ? w a
- 7. Favorite Google Search Operators Operator Function Example search term AND search term Both search terms appear in the search result. sea AND health search term OR search term At least one of two or more search terms appear in the result. Kadafi OR Gaddafi OR Quaddafi “search term” Use quotes to search for an exact word or set of words on a web page. “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time.” search term site:domain Get results only from certain sites or domains. (ex:.gov, .mil,...) accidents site:.gov search term filetype:document Get results that appear in specific documents (pdf, xls, doc,...) address filetype:xls passwords filetype:pdf
- 8. Favorite Google Search Operators Operator Functie Example number..number Get results that contain numbers in a given range. 1993..1995 link:website Find pages that link to a certain page link:google.com search term * search term Add an asterisk within a search as a placeholder for any unknown or wildcard terms. The president of * search term –search term exclude all results that include a certain word. speed jaguar -auto-search term AROUND(number) search term Look for a word near another word. violence AROUND(5) Ferguson
- 10. Google Books Google Groups Search online forums and participate in community conversations. Google Scholar Search and preview millions of books from libraries and publishers worldwide A simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature Even more Google...
- 11. 30+ SEARCH TOOLS
- 12. 1. Alerts Monitor the web for interesting new content. Google Alerts Talkwalker Mention
- 13. 2. Images Use Google Images as a search engine for news and sources. 1. Try different search terms 2. Filter on size, color, type, time,... 3. Do a reverse search by dragging a picture in the search window.
- 14. Google Goggles Camfind Take a picture with Camfind to learn more about any object (iOs) Tineye Android app for searches based on pictures A reverse image search engine. Give it an image and it will tell you where the image appears on the web. Images
- 15. 3. Video Search through hundreds of millions of news videos & viral content YOUTUBE LIVELEAK DAILYMOTION
- 16. Youtube Advanced Search 20 Search 20 video search engines in one list Bellingcat Searching videos on YouTube is simple but if you know a few advanced search tricks, it becomes even more accurate Great resource featuring tutorials on how to geolocate videos Video
- 17. 4. Translations By searching in other languages you can find alternative and/or more accurate results. 1. Set Google to another language. => Egypte: google.com.eg 2. Translate your search terms 3. Use Chrome for instant translation of web pages
- 18. Google Translate Newspapermap Find and translate all newspapers in the world Word Lens Instantly translates text and web pages App that can translate words and language it sees in real time Translations
- 19. 5. Location Map-based search can help you 1. Find and check addresses. 2. Satellite-view: check terrain properties and track changes. 3. Street-view: home numbers, checking locations and views,.. 4. Location-specific news filtering
- 20. Google Maps & Google Earth Flash Earth Satellite and aerial imagery of the earth in flash Google Maps Engine Starting place for all location-based search Create and visualize custom geospacial data Location
- 21. 6. Social Fastest way to find information about individuals and companies. 1. Address, work, hobbies,... 2. Friends, relatives, network,... 3. Pictures, videos,.. 4. Contact details 5. Starting point for crowdsourcing information 6. ...
- 22. Social Mention Geofeedia Location-based social media monitoring Peek You A social media search engine that searches user-generated content People search engine allows you to find and contact anyone online. Find social links, photos, work history, alumni info, family and more. Social Search
- 23. Twitter Advanced Search Tweetdeck Best journalism tool for monitoring Twitter. Real time updating, a powerful search tool, and easily movable columns Tweepz Useful and powerful to search twitter with multiple criteria. A clever way to find out who to follow Twitter
- 24. Graph Search PicDeck Filter Instagram via hashtags or users Linkedin for Journalists Advanced search function of Facebook. Find more of what you're looking for on and discover connections between people, places and things Tips & tricks for journalists using Linkedin Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin
- 25. Links Alerts Google Alerts Updates/emails based on keywords https://www.google.com/alerts Talkwalker Alternative for Google Alerts http://www.talkwalker.com/en/alerts/ Mention Alternative for Google Alerts https://en.mention.com/google-alerts Images Google Images Place to start your image search http://images.google.com/ Google Goggles Searches based on pictures https://play.google.com/store/apps/details? id=com.google.android.apps.unveil&hl=en Camfind Searches based on pictures https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/camfind-search-your- camera/id595857716?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo %3D8 Tineye Reverse Image Search http://www.tineye.com/
- 26. Links II Video Youtube Search Engine for Video https://www.youtube.com Liveleak Search Engine for Video http://www.liveleak.com/ Dailymotion Search Engine for Video http://www.dailymotion.com Youtube Advanced Search Advanced Search for Youtube https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/ 111997?hl=en 20 Search 20 video search engines on one page http://www.20search.com/video.php Bellingcat Tutorials on how to geolocate videos http://www.blinkx.com/ Translations Google Translate Translate everything https://translate.google.com/ Newspapermap Read all the newspapers in the world in your own language http://newspapermap.com/ Word Lens Translate images https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/word-lens/ id383463868?mt=8
- 27. Links III Location Google Maps Place to start location search https://www.google.be/maps/ Flash Earth Alternative for Google Maps http://www.flashearth.com/ Maps Engine Make custom searchable maps https://mapsengine.google.com/map/ Social Search Social Mention Search engine for social media http://socialmention.com/ Geofeedia Geolocate & monitor social media http://geofeedia.com/ Peekyou People search engine http://www.peekyou.com/ Twitter Advanced Twitter Search Just what it promises: advanced search on twitter https://twitter.com/search-advanced Tweetdeck Monitor Twitter https://about.twitter.com/products/tweetdeck Tweepz Who do you need to follow on twitter on certain topics? During breaking news? http://tweepz.com
- 28. Links IV Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin Facebook Graph Search Advanced Search on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-journalists/ how-journalists-can-use-facebook-graph- search-for-reporting/543504605661558 Pickdeck Tweetdeck for Instagram http://picdeck.co/ Linkedin for Journalisten Resource to get more out of Linkedin http://press.linkedin.com/linkedin-for-journalists
- 29. And even more search tools... Alternative Search Engines Topsy Search engine http://topsy.com Dmoz Search in directories http://www.dmoz.org/ Search Carrot Search engine that lists subjects http://search.carrot2.org Ice Rocket Blog Search Excellent blog search engine http://blogs.icerocket.com/?&q= Wolfram Aplha Semantic search engine http://www.wolframalpha.com Tor Search the deep web https://www.torproject.org/ Website information Domaintools Domain information http://www.domaintools.com/ Wayback Machine Internet Archive. Great for finding old web pages http://archive.org/web/web.php Change Detection Track changes on web pages http://www.changedetection.com/
- 30. Even more search tools: http://www.pinterest.com/ journalismtools/search/
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