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The Websearch Blog

Articles and tips about searching the Web from Susan Herzog, Information Literacy Librarian @ Eastern Connecticut State University

myGoogle Search Aims To Refine Google Results
Danny Sullivan, SearchEngineWatch Blog
"myGoogle Search is NOT from Google, and somehow I suspect the letter asking for a name change will be coming from the lawyers at the Googleplex. But the idea is in the right spirit. Do a Google search, then tick the results you DON'T like to automatically bring back more that match what you DO want. The site's How To Use page has more explaining the concept, with examples."
New Travel Search: Take a Trip with Kayak
Gary Price, SearchEngineWatch Blog
"Kayak, a new travel search meta site that I've mentioned several times on the SEW Blog, has just launched a beta version. Kayak, simultaneously searches more than 60 site for air fares, hotels, and car rental pricing info."
Web 2.0 Search Wrap-Up
Danny Sullivan, SearchEngineWatch Blog
"O'Reilly's put out its official wrap-up of various things discussed that were search-related at its Web 2.0 conference: Search: The Current and Next Big Thing."
Publisher Reactions To Google Print; What About Authors?
Danny Sullivan, SearchEngineWatch Blog
"New Google Service May Strain Old Ties in Bookselling from the New York Times today has some nice quotes on how publishers are reacting to the expansion of the Google Print service."
Search and Cluster the CIA WMD Report with Clusty
Gary Price, SearchEngineWatch Blog
"The folks over at Clusty (aka Vivisimo) have just released a search/cluster version of the CIA WMD report that was released on Wednesday. In July, Vivisimo made a search and cluster version of the 9/11 Commission Final Report available."
Roll Your Own Yahoo Specialty Search Engine
Danny Sullivan, SearchEngineWatch Blog
"Nice from Tara Calishain: Searchroller For Yahoo. Want to make a subject-specific search engine that brings back results from only certain web sites? This workaround she's created makes it easy via Yahoo."
Brin on Personal Search and SEO
Gary Price, SearchEngineWatch Blog
"Sergey Brin let's [sic] us know that Google is working on a personal search application similar to My Jeeves and My Yahoo Search."
Searching for Digital Books
Gary Price, SearchEngineWatch Blog
"Here are a three specialized databases that do a good job providing info about and/or access to thousands of digitized books and texts."
Search Through US Presidental Debate Transcripts
Danny Sullivan, SearchEngineWatch Blog
"Want to search the transcripts of the US presidential and vice presidential debates? A new service from askSam makes it possible."
Google: A Behind-the-Scenes Look (and other Lectures)
Gary Price, SearchEngineWatch Blog
"Greg Linden from Findory alerts us to a presentation by Jeff Dean from Google. It took place earlier this week at the University of Washington in Seattle."
Fagan's "Switch Bookmarklets
Gary Price, SearchEngineWatch Blog
"About two month's ago Chris called Michael Fagan a 'search craftsman' when reviewing Fagan's wonderful URLInfo service. I wholeheartedly agree with Chris description of Michael. I've been a fan of his 'craftsmanship' for a long time. Yesterday, Fagan released yet another new and useful tool for web searchers. This time around it's a new set of bookmarklets, what he calls Switch Bookmarklets that allow you to, 'quickly switch from search results from one tool to those from another'. Switch Bookmarklets are available for many general and specialized search engines. For example, run a search on Google and by simply clicking the bookmarklet check the results for the same query at Teoma. Run a search at Daypop and quickly review the results at Technorati. Hundreds of combinations are possible."
Searcher Habits
Gary Price, SearchEngineWatch Blog
"An interesting AP story: Experts: Web searches for sex declining, e-commerce increasing that reports on some research findings published in a new book titled, Web Search: Public Searching of the Web by noted information scientists, Dr. Amanda Spink (University of Pittsburgh) and Dr. Bernard J. Jansen (Penn. State University). By the way, their web sites link to plenty of interesting material."
Some Google Print Follow-Ups
Danny Sullivan, Search Engine Watch Blog
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A look at how existing electronic copies of books won't be included in Google Print, including no comment from Google on rumored plans of Project Ocean to digitize the Stanford Library. Also an update on progress with Amazon's Search Inside The Book, more tips on searching the full text of books outside of Google and Amazon and examples of how Google Print results now appear in OneBox display."
Problems With Searching By Date
Gary Price, Search Engine Watch Blog
"The FirstMonday article Internet time and the reliability of search engines examines how search engines are undependable for social science research, since page dates are unreliable. In this blog post, a longer look at the issue of dates when it comes to searching."
A Closer Look At Privacy & Desktop Search
By Danny Sullivan, Editor, SearchEngineWatch
"The anticipated popularity of Google's new desktop search tool means that soon it will be commonplace for everyone to search their computers as easily, comprehensively and quickly as they search the web. After all, several of Google's competitors already are working on desktop search offerings of their own. So even if you don't use Google's tool, chances are, you'll use someone else's.

In short, a new era of search is being ushered in. With it comes some new issues about search privacy. We've already seen how people are sometimes shocked to discover that personal information about themselves is out on the web and made easily accessible through search. Our Search Engines & Legal Issues page recounts many such examples."
Search Memories
By Mike Grehan, SearchEngineWatch
"Veterans of AltaVista, Excite and Infoseek reminisce about the early days of web search, and opine about Google, then and now."
Yahoo Announces Size Increase to Image Database
Gary Price, SearchEngineWatch Blog
"Word from Yahoo this afternoon that they're announcing a size increase, what they're calling an upgrade, to Yahoo Image Search database. According to the company, the database now includes an index of more than 1 billion images."
A New Mobile Phone Search Service
By Chris Sherman, Associate Editor, SearchEngineWatch
"UpSnap turns your cell phone in to a search tool, offering free directory assistance lookups using SMS text messaging."
Yahoo Adds Local, Web and Image Search To Mobile Lineup
By Gary Price, SearchEngineWatch Blog
"Yahoo has added local search, web search, and image search to their already large set of mobile services (news alerts, games, IM, etc.) delivered to your wireless web browser."