Internet Librarian: Greg Notess: New Search Strategies: Advanced Techniques, Approaches, & Sources
Greg Notess, known for Search Engine Showdown, is giving us another take on search engines and advanced searching.
Northern Light is back with some searches for business sources.
alltheweb makes suggestions as you type. It uses Yahoo!’s database.
The way Notess’ presentation is structured, it’s easier for me just to list the various resource he’s showing us than it is to take straight notes.
Answer sites: Answers.com, Wikipedia (which, he notes, is especially good at finding new tech definitions), and Yahoo! Reference
Field searching: site:.gov or site:harvard.edu (no, really, that’s his example) is supported by many engines; inurl:/library/
Subset searching: Rollyo, Windows Live (formerly MSN)
File type: filetype:pdf (Google, Live, Exalead), originurlextension:pdf (Yahoo!)
Link searching: link:http://blogs.law.harvard.edu (Live, Yahoo!, Exalead)
Exalead does proximity searching with NEAR. Apparently, NEAR/# (like if you’re searching for something within five words of something else, you’d type president NEAR/5 states).
There’s a new operator to allow people to search for content on a specific site, but I had to move before I could type it and now I’ve forgotten the details.
Don’t forget about cache searching. More and more engines are using it and some even state when they last crawled a page.
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