Ref22: Searchers Academy 2.0 Redux
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The document summarizes various tools and resources available for effective online searching and information retrieval, focusing on platforms like Google, Bing, Yahoo, and Wolfram Alpha, as well as specialized databases for medical, scientific, and legal research. It highlights specific features of each tool, such as translation options, advanced search capabilities, and the ability to analyze and visualize data trends. Additionally, social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook are mentioned for their utility in finding up-to-date information and expert connections.
Ref22: Searchers Academy 2.0 Redux
- 1. A recap of the Helpful toolsand resourcesOf searcher’s academy 2.0Ahniwa FerrariStatewide coordinator, ask-wa2009 November 10Ref22:Searchers’ Academy 2.0Redux
- 2. Chris Sherman, SearchEngineLand.comGoogle – Guardian of the Status QuoSome neat features through Google Labs, though.Show options, fast flip, city tours, google squared, google trends, google insights for search, google visualization APIs, google flu trends …Yahoo! – The Emperor’s New ClothesFocusing on what happens “before and after search”, e.g. browsing.Bing – Assimilator as InnovatorBing Reference, travel, xrankWolfram Alpha – NOT a search engine?Closed-source data sets, tough time with natural language, fairly smart sometimes, can do complex computational analysis
- 5. Google Visualization APIs: browse the gallery, or learn how tocreate your own APIs to show data in new and useful ways.
- 6. BING! – Bing Is Not Google?
- 7. Bing Reference: Uses Powerset to pull datafrom Wikipedia, but compiles from multiplearticles into one “enhanced” article.
- 8. Wolfram Alpha:Computational Knowledge Engine
- 10. More Searches …
- 12. Mary Ellen Bates: Bates Information Service“Digging into the Deep Web”Google.com/translate_sTranslate your search into Spanish, retrieve pages in Spanish that match your search, and translate them back into EnglishAvailable for other languages too.WolframAlpha, more fun with.26.22 miles (length of a marathon), 4.8x height of Mount Everest, 3.9x greatest ocean depth (provides interesting comparisons)Earthquakes near Japan – provides map with timeline, can facet search by magnitude, time
- 13. Deepdyve – federated, some free and some payPrimarily medical and patent searching – can handle large chunks of text and return relevant resultsScirus – indexes science-related sites onlyPrimarily free, has good advanced search and refine optionsNOT the first place to go for open access journalsBiznar: semi-random collection of business resources, use as brainstorming search, good facetingMednar: over 60 medical resources, similar to BiznarScienceResearch: searches science.gov, OISter, WorldwideScience, e-Print networkWorldwide Science Web: federation of 61 national science portals and databases
- 14. Mary Ellen Bates:Searching the Collaborative WebTwitter – useful because it is concise, people narrow their thoughts down to core ideasBlog search – technorati still best search engine, use authority filter to find more reliable blogsFacebook – useful for identifying interest groups and upcoming conferences – tap into groups and see their concerns, interests, questions etc.LinkedIn – limit search within X miles of you, search extended networks for subject experts, e.g. “find an expert on the ground” (tends to get good, quick responses)
- 15. OneRiot searches the LINKS that peopleshare through socialmedia and returns theactual web pages.Sort by realtime (mostcurrent), or pulse (mostpopular).
- 16. Twitter searches that workMonitor live action: “swine flu” or near:denver, within:25mi (based on your stated location)Find resources using filter:linksHighlights of conferences, e.g. #il2009Searching at twitter.com only searches last 7-9 daysSupport #hashtags and @searchesProvides good advanced search toolsSearch twitter using Google using site:twitter.comHas a deeper archives, but does not support #hashtags or @, though it may in the near future
- 18. Marcy Phelps: Cost-Effective SearchingZapdata.com – d&b data on 14 million us businessesIncludes industry reports using SIC codes, market analysisUSPTO.gov – search patents and trademarksIncludes guides, manuals, etc – useful for overview of market and competitive informationEdgar.sec.gov – securities and exchange commissionSearch for info about market competitors, management bios
- 19. Medical searchingPubmed – search abstractsPubmed Central – all full-text and digitizedClinicaltrials.gov – lots of filter optionsPower tools:“Clustering” very useful to get overview of subject, shows different aspects of a searchCluster with biznar.com, carrot2, clusty.comVerticals: specialize by content type / medium, not as broad but goes deeperPandiaPowersearch, zibb.com, UMichGovDocs Center
- 21. Science VerticalsSearching is similar in all three, but content very different.Scienceresearch.comScitopia.orgWorldwidescience.org
- 22. Tracks hot trends from numerous sources, good pop culture and news searching tool.
- 23. Social web tools:Addictomatic.com – latest buzz on any topicWhostalkin.com – social media searchTweetdeck.com (download) – track twitter, including hashtags and saved searches on whatever you likeUse technology:Google trends, see trends in a given area (down to city level)Silobreaker.com – news with analytical results, has hotspotsGoogle news archive – handy for creating timelines, find out WHEN something was a hot topicTrendrr – tells you what topics were hot, and when
- 24. Business 2.0Samepoint.com – business conversation searchIbizradio.com – business podcast directory and search – includes podcast statistics (can search for podcasts, but not within podcast text … yet)Technorati – still best for blog searchHellometro.com (also outside.in) – detailed info to neighborhood / zipcode level; find parks, local bands, crime stats, history and more.
- 25. Science 2.0Arxiv.org – OA site over 500,000 e-prints in physics, math, compsci, quantitative bio, quantitative finance, and statisticsInvention Dimension (web.mit.edu/invent) – potential inventors and innovators, shows who invents what, who holds patents, how to invent, etc.OAIster.org – great OA source of digital resources (now in WorldCat)Science.gov – gateway to over 1950 scientific websites with high authorityScirus.com (Elsevier) – more than 450million scientific items indexed to dateScitopia.org – searches digital libraries of 21 science and tech societies (many available fulltext)Shodor.org – computational science education, science and math, also modeling and simulation tech and animationWorldwidescience.org – global science gateway connecting users to national and international databases and portals – includes info from 15 international member organizations
- 26. More Science 2.0Physics: physics.orgMathematics: www.math.fsu.edu/virtual/index.phpGeology: geology.comChemistry: antoine.frostburg.edu/chem/senese/101/index.shtmlBiology: www.biology.arizona.eduAstronomy: astrobiology.nasa.gov
- 27. Legal ResourcesJustia and RECAP: justia.com / recapthelaw.orgCourt dockets, legal blog search, etc…NetrOnline.com – assessor and public recordsGovTracks.us – tracks federal legislationOyez.org – listen to supreme court cases being argued – open archive of US CongressOpenregs.com – federal regulations from the federal register
- 29. A recap of the Helpful toolsand resourcesOf searcher’s academy 2.0Ahniwa FerrariStatewide coordinator, ask-wa2009 November 10Ref22:Searchers’ Academy 2.0Redux
Editor's Notes
- #4: - “show options” allows faceting to searches “advanced search options”
- #5: - google squared – shows data in a table, creates fields “squares” and fills them with info (very cool)
- #6: - google visualization api– motion chart, charts data over time and then animates it
- #7: - xrank – sort of like trends, shows top celebrities, musicians, etc … what are people interested in or searching for?
- #8: - uses powerset as a semantic search engine, basically puts wikipedia into bing (but later could do more)– searches all mentions of search, e.g. einstein, in wikipedia and collates them into a single article
- #9: Displays data in useful, visual ways. Closed data sets, curated by dedicated staff.Tracks search patterns, is responsive to trends.
- #10: Less useful for analytical data – provides facts and statistics.Shows sources for many queries.
- #11: Videosurf – tries to convert speech to text, search by famous line – still heavily reliant on titles and metadata – can’t convert irony or body language.PowersetFactz – based on wikipedia and freebase to provide quick answers.Hakia – offers “resumes” for some searches, and credible sites vetted by librarians.
- #12: TrueKnowledge – first REAL answer engine. Play video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEUNBOzyymM– building semantic networks, api returns structures results to machine-based queries– will actually take your question and return an answer