Search Engine Smorgasbord!

Stacy Nowicki Library Director, Kalamazoo College

ILR Workshop: “Fast, Cheap and in Control” 9 March 2007 Central Michigan University Search Engines NOT

• Clusty: http://clusty.com/ Metasearch. Groups similar results together to help narrow results or find relationships among items. – Clusty optimized for the Wii: http://wii.clusty.com/

• Exalead: http://www.exalead.com/search Provides thumbnail previews of the pages in results. Refines by related terms, language, geographic location, file type, as well as audio, video, RSS. Also searches images. More Search Engines

• : http://www.gigablast.com/ Refine searches by related topics (Giga Bits). Includes a directory.

• Ask.com: http://www.ask.com/ Formerly Ask Jeeves. Lists other searches on right side. Save results with folders and tags. – See also AskX: http://www.ask.com/?ax=5 Beta test site for Ask.com Some More Search Engines

• Scandoo: http://www.scandoo.com/ Searches major search engines (Google, MSN Live Search, or Yahoo!; Ask coming soon) and “rates” results for security and offensive content

• ChaCha Search: http://www.chacha.com/ Search with a live guide that assists in real time via chat More Search Engines

• Zuula: http://www.zuula.com/ Searches Google, Yahoo, MSN, Gigablast, and Exalead Don’t Go There

• Ms. Dewey: http://www.msdewey.com/ Viral marketing! Powered by LiveSearch (MSN)

Scary! Search Google and Yahoo Simultaneously!

• Twingine: http://www.twingine.com/

• GahooYoogle: http://www.gahooyoogle.com/ Other Ways to Google…

• Soople: http://www.soople.com/ Easy Google expert searching Visual Display

• Kartoo: http://www.kartoo.com/ A metasearch engine that represents results in a “series of interactive maps”

• Pagebull: http://www.pagebull.com/ A metasearch engine that returns results as web page “snapshots” Visual Display

• Quintura: http://www.quintura.com “Visualization becomes the center of user experience replacing antiquated listings and Boolean strings” Create Your Own !

• Google Co-Op: http://www.google.com/coop/cse/ Create a custom search engine that searches only the websites you choose (or all Google- indexed sites). Example: http://tinyurl.com/2fg6xy

• Yahoo! Search Builder: http://builder.search.yahoo.com “A customized search experience for your web site. Personalize the results, analyze user data, and manage multiple experiences.” Example: http://www.breederretriever.com/ More Custom Search Engines

• Rollyo: Roll Your Own Search Engine: http://www.rollyo.com/ “Create search engines using the sources you trust.” Example: http://www.rollyo.com/devanjedi/ev erything_star_wars/

• Swicki: http://swicki.eurekster.com/ Swickis are a cross between search engines and wikis - the community can add, delete and improve the results Example: http://celebrity-hair-styles-search- engine-swicki.eurekster.com/ Image Recognition Search

• Retrievr: http://labs.systemone.at /retrievr/ Search Flickr photos by sketch

• Like.com: http://www.like.com/ Great for shopping! Business Search

• Accoona: http://www.accoona.com/

• SMEALsearch: http://smealsearch2.psu.edu/ Academic Business Literature Digital Library by Penn State. Based on CiteSeer: http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/

• Zibb: http://www.zibb.com/ by Reed Business Information Health Search (and more…)

• Kosmix: http://www.kosmix.com/ Wiki Search

• Qwika: http://www.qwika.com/ Blog Search

• Technorati: http://www.technorati.com/

• Google Blog Search: http://blogsearch.google.com/ Blog/RSS Search

• LibWorm: http://www.libworm.com/ LibWorm is a search engine and current awareness tool for librarians. LibWorm collects updates from about 1400 RSS feeds. These feeds are available for searching, and search results can themselves be output as an RSS feed. Photo and Video Search

• Pixsy: http://www.pixsy.com/ Audio Search

• Yahoo! Audio Search: http://audio.search.yahoo.com/

• Pluggd: http://www.pluggd.com/ Search inside podcasts More Audio Search

• Podzinger: http://www.podzinger.com/ Also searches YouTube

• Podscope: http://www.podscope.com/ Searches audio and video Video Search

• Yahoo! Video: http://video.search.yahoo .com/

• Blinkx: http://www.blinkx.com/ Uses visual analysis and speech recognition to “understand” media content More Video Search

• Search For Video: http://www.searchforvideo.com/

• Purevideo.com: http://www.purevideo.com/ Mobile Visual Search

• Semapedia: http://www.semapedia.org/ Connects articles with their relevant place in physical space

• Mobot: http://www.mobot.com/ Search by camera phone (not live yet) Search for a Misspelling

• Labs - Keyword Mutation Detection: http://adlab.microsoft.com/keyMut/default.aspx This tool displays common misspellings or alternative representations of your keywords. Google Goodness

• Google News Search: http://news.google.com/ • Google Finance: http://finance.google.com/finance • Google News Archive Search: http://news.google.com/archivesearch • Specialized Searches: http://www.google.com/options/specialsearches. html • Google Image Search: Government, , BSD, Microsoft, Apple http://images.google.com/ • Google Trends: http://www.google.com/trends • Google Patent Search: With Google Trends, you can compare the http://www.google.com/patents world's interest in your favorite topics. Enter up to five topics and see how often they've been • Google Video Search: http://video.google.com/ searched for on Google over time. Google Now with YouTube Content! Trends also displays how frequently your topics have appeared in Google News stories, and which geographic regions have searched for • Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com/ them most often.

• Google Catalog Search: • Google Code Search: http://catalogs.google.com/ http://www.google.com/codesearch Search public • Google Blog Search: http://blogsearch.google.com/ • Google weblog: http://librariancentral.blogspot.com/index.html • Google Book Search: http://books.google.com/ • Google Alerts Yahoo!

• Yahoo! Mindset: http://mindset.research.yahoo.com/ “A Yahoo! Research demo that applies a new twist on search that uses machine learning technology to give you a choice: View Yahoo! Search results sorted according to whether they are more commercial or more informational (i.e., from academic, non-commercial, or research-oriented sources).”

• Yahoo! Site Explorer: http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/ “Site Explorer allows you to explore all the web pages indexed by Yahoo! Search. View the most popular pages from any site, dive into a comprehensive site map, and find pages that link to that site or any page.”

• Yahoo! Search Subscriptions: http://search.yahoo.com/subscriptions Yahoo! Search Subscriptions enables you to search access-restricted content such as news and reference sites that are normally not accessible to search engines. Who Will be the Next Google?

•: http://www.powerset.com/

• Hakia: http://www.hakia.com/ Stay Informed!

• Search Engine Watch: http://searchenginewatch.com/ Search engine listings and ratings outdated News updated regularly

• Search Engine Showdown: http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/ Includes a list of “dead” search engines Many old pages, but blog updated regularly This presentation is online at: http://hdl.handle.net/10090/123

or contact: Stacy Nowicki Kalamazoo College 269-337-5750 [email protected]