- SEARCH ENGINES
- Boolean terms
- +, -, "
"
- eg "Magoebaskloof
land claim"
- advanced features,
eg domains
Big engines
- Google
- driving 75% of
Internet traffic last week
- Advanced
Search
- Browse by name
toolbar
- image, news
- Picasa - www.picasa.com
- finds and
organises image files on hard-drive
- can assign
keywords for easy retrieval
- import
images from almost any Twain-compatible device
- free -
optional for-fee photo printing solution
- Hello - www.hello.com
- send photos
instantly to others who can download a full-sized printable
version at will
- can be
displayed simultaneously and Hello interface used to chat in
realtime
- Blogger - www.blogger.com
- Google 'dancing'
- update
PageRank on average of 3-6 weeks
- notice spiders
crawling deeper into sites
- 'strange
results'
- different
rankings on different tools
- old data
showing up
- dip or
increase in number of backlinks
- Security risks
- can root out
vulnerabilities, passwords, sensitive data
- eg search for
default server page titles, or login details for poorly
configured databases
- Ask
Jeeves
- natural language
- Smart
Search
- Binoculars
- not yet
on every search result
- need
- Broadband
connection
- IE
5.5 or higher
- cookies
enabled
- Javascript
enabled
- reduced
number of clicks
- reduced
number of search pages to be reviewed
- 85.3% of
users said they would recommend it to others
Little engines
- A9.com
- Book searches
- results from
Google, Amazon's "Search Inside the Book", and
Internet Movie database
- rollover details
- compiles search
history
- diarise notes on
any webpage for future reference
- anonymous
version (http://generic.a9.com)
- search
history is not saved
- will not be
able to view snippets of text
- Why
use us
- Ananzi
- combination
directory/search engine
- GlobalSpec
- specialised
engineering and technical search engine
- Grokker
- converts text
lists of search results into a map of floating spheres and other
graphical representations
- HighBeam
- subscription
service
- over 32 million
full-text documents
- InfoPlease
- quick look-up
questions for ready-reference resources like encyclopaedias
- The
Scannery
- an
investor-focused search engine
- over 24 000
public companies in over 90 countries
- options : fuzzy,
phonic, stemming, synonyms, related words
- anglogold
- 66 (ranked by hits)
- Scirus
- scientific
material
- combination of
search engine and a database of published scientific articles
- Topix
- directory
- news site
- regional
Directories of search
engines, directories and databases
Toolbars
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