Searching the Internet

Episode 004 of Searching the Internet covers acronym finders, urban legends, the internet archive, and RefDesk.

00:00 Intro
Search Engine News
00:45 Google Notebook
01:40 Google Blog Search date limits
03:31 Google Advanced Search Creative
04:52 Google Trends
07:24 Tagground
08:34 Number of Words in Searches
09:48 Snap.com New Interface
10:57 Announcements

Acronym Finders, Urban Legends, Internet Archive, and RefDesk
12:32 AcronymSearch.com
14:58 Internet Acronym Server
17:08 Acronym Finder
19:40 Urban Legends
22:17 The Straight Dope
23:41 The Internet Archive
25:20 RefDesk
25:00 Wrapup

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Episode 004 of Searching the Internet covers acronym finders, urban legends, the internet archive, and RefDesk.

00:00 Intro
Search Engine News
00:45 Google Notebook
01:40 Google Blog Search date limits
03:31 Google Advanced Search Creative
04:52 Google Trends
07:24 Tagground
08:34 Number of Words in Searches
09:48 Snap.com New Interface
10:57 Announcements

Acronym Finders, Urban Legends, Internet Archive, and RefDesk
12:32 AcronymSearch.com
14:58 Internet Acronym Server
17:08 Acronym Finder
19:40 Urban Legends
22:17 The Straight Dope
23:41 The Internet Archive
25:20 RefDesk
30:10 Wrapup

Other podcasts mentioning (powered by Podzinger);
acronym search
Urban Legends
Internet Archive
RefDesk

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Episode 003 of Searching the Internet covers finding people, addresses and reverse phone lookup web sites. Some of the sites discussed include Zabasearch, Infospace, and Superpages among others.

00:00 Intro
Search Engine News
01:28 Yahoo blog search Bookmarklet
02:50 New Blog search engine Sphere
04:20 Google command type:
05:05 Google’s refined results
05:42 Google Problem with Big Daddy index update
06:47 2006 Webby Award winners

Finding people, adresses and phone numbers
09:07 The Ultimates white and yellow pages
12:58 Zabasearch
17:08 Infospace
19:47 Freeality
21:42 Superpages
22:52 Melissa Data Lookup
25:00 Wrapup

STI003-2006-05-09.m4a

Technorati Tags: Infospace, podcast, search engine, Sphere, Superpages, Yahoo, Zabasearch

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Episode 003 of Searching the Internet covers finding people, addresses and reverse phone lookup web sites. Some of the sites discussed include Zabasearch, Infospace, and Superpages among others.

00:00 Intro
Search Engine News
01:28 Yahoo blog search Bookmarklet
02:50 New Blog search engine Sphere
04:20 Google command type:
05:05 Google’s refined results
05:42 Google Problem with Big Daddy index update
06:47 2006 Webby Award winners

Finding people, adresses and phone numbers
09:07 The Ultimates white and yellow pages
12:58 Zabasearch
17:08 Infospace
19:47 Freeality
21:42 Superpages
22:52 Melissa Data Lookup
25:00 Wrapup

STI003-2006-05-09.mp3

Technorati Tags: Infospace, podcast, search engine, Sphere, Superpages, Yahoo, Zabasearch

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Episode 002 of Searching the Internet.

The second episode of Searching the Internet. This episode discusses some search engines news and then looks at some of the advanced search features of Google and Yahoo. Also the nich search engine Scirus is discussed. Scirus is a science search engine.

00:00 Intro
02:06 Google releases 3D software called SketchUp
02:57 Google maps adds Spain, Germany, Italy, and France
03:31 Yahoo updates its index
03:59 Yahoo re-introduces Babelfish
04:46 Yahoo’s travel search engine Farechase is out of beta
06:46 Google advanced search features
Example: “George Washington”
Example: bass -fish
Example: science inurl:(rss OR xml OR feed OR atom OR rdf)
Example: science (filetype:doc OR filetype:xls)
17:18 Yahoo advanced search features
Example:science and filetype is rss/xml
20:39 Scirus; a science search engine
25:34 Wrapup

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STI002-2006-04-30.m4a

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Episode 002 of Searching the Internet.

The second episode of Searching the Internet. This episode discusses some search engines news and then looks at some of the advanced search features of Google and Yahoo. Also the nich search engine Scirus is discussed. Scirus is a science search engine .

00:00 Intro
02:06 Google releases 3D software called SketchUp
02:57 Google maps adds Spain, Germany, Italy, and France
03:31 Yahoo updates its index
03:59 Yahoo re-introduces Babelfish
04:46 Yahoo’s travel search engine Farechase is out of beta
06:46 Google advanced search features
Example: “George Washington”
Example: bass -fish
Example: science inurl:(rss OR xml OR feed OR atom OR rdf)
Example: science (filetype:doc OR filetype:xls)
17:18 Yahoo advanced search features
Example:science and filetype is rss/xml
20:39 Scirus; a science search engine
25:34 Wrapup

Other podcasts mentioning Google and Yahoo advanced search features (powered by Podzinger)

STI002-2006-04-30.mp3

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