Searching the Internet

This is the fourth episode of Searching the Internet Quick Tips and this one focuses on the site Worldcat.org. This site allows you to find library materials such as books, compact discs, and recordings at a library near you. You can refine your search results and then locate a library nearest you that has the material. You can even go directly to the library’s card catalog. I highly recommend this site if you have a need for a book or other reference and it isn’t in your local library. You can think of this as one giant library card catalog for most of the world’s libraries.

STIQT004-2006-11-22 Worldcat.mp3

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Episode 012 covers election information sites. These include Yahoo midterm elections, C-SPAN and CNN as major news sites. Also included are FairVote, getVoting411, League of Women Voters, Vote411.org, ElectionOnline.org, Election 2006, Factcheck.org , Media Matters for America, Politics1, Project Vote Smart, RealClearPolitics, and Open Secrets.org. Also mentioned is Electoral-Vote, ElectionProjection, Voter Protection Center and clustered results from Clustry and Mooter.

00:00 Intro
Voter and Election Information
02:04 Yahoo News Midterm Elections 2006
04:03 C-SPAN
05:21 CNN America Votes 2006
07:16 Fair Vote
08:44 getvoting411.us
09:37 League of Women Voters
10:05 Vote411.org
12:10 Electionline
13:03 Elections 2006
14:30 Factcheck.org
16:25 Media Matters for America
19:16 Politics1.com
20:40 Project Vote Smart
22:06 RealClearPolitics
23:51 Election Protection 365
25:30 Election Incident Reporting System
27:19 Electroral-Vote.com
29:21 Election Projection - 2006 Edition
31:21 Clusty Results for 2006 Midterm Election
33:04 Mooter Results for 2006 Midterm Election

34:23 Wrapup

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Technorati Tags: America Votes, C-SPAN, Clusty, CNN, EIRS, election, Election Incident Reporting System, Election Projection, Election Protection 365, Electionline, Elections 2006, Electoral-vote, Factcheck, Fair Vote, getvoting411, League of Women Voters, Media Matters, Mooter, Politics1, Project Vote Smart, RealClearPolitics, vote, Vote411, voting, Yahoo News

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Episode 011 covers some search engines news and then discusses searching for news articles on two of the major search engines (Google and Yahoo) and some lesser know ones such as Findory, Topix , Newstrove, and Newslink.

00:00 Intro
Search Engine News
04:03 Google Buys YouTube for $1.65 Billion
04:37 My Thoughts on Google Buying YouTube
05:00 Google Groups Beta
05:19 Google Groups Beta Tour
05:33 Clusty redesigns with focus on speed and simplicity
06:14 Apparent Demise of A9
06:46 Yahoo Local Updated
07:19 Google’s Searchmash
07:41 Searchmash.com
07:58 Microsoft’s Live Search is Live
08:37 News Ask Smart Answer Features
09:24 Ask Smart Answers Available Internationally
10:02 Google Mac Blog
11:17 Daypop Down and Out

News Search Sites
12:50 Google News
16:13 Google News Archive
18:31 Yahoo News
21:57 Findory
23:36 Topix.net
24:46 Newstrove
28:03 Newslink
29:57 Wrapup

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Technorati Tags: A9, Ask, Clusty, Daypop, Findory, Google, Google Groups, Google News, news search, news site, Newslink, Newstrove, Searchmash, Topix.net, Yahoo Local, Yahoo News

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This is the third episode of Searching the Internet Quick Tips, a short podcast focusing on one site or search tip. This episode discusses how to formulate a search query.

Example queries on Yahoo
Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
(Abe OR Abraham) Lincoln
(Abe OR Abraham) Lincoln “civil war”
(Abe OR Abraham) Lincoln “civil war” Stanton

Example queries on Google
Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
(Abe OR Abraham) Lincoln
(Abe OR Abraham) Lincoln “civil war”
(Abe OR Abraham) Lincoln “civil war” Stanton

STIQT003-2006-10-06 Formulating a Search Query.mp3

Technorati Tags: Google, Yahoo

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This is the second episode of Searching the Internet Quick Tips, a short podcast focusing on one site or search tip. This episode discusses using the site: command on Yahoo, Google and MSN search to perform a site search on websites that do not offer that capability. Basically, any site that is indexed in any of these search engines can be searched by itself using this command.

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Technorati Tags: Google, MSN Search, Yahoo

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Episode 010 of Searching the Internet covers some search engines news and then goes over sites to find locations on maps and driving directions as well as some great collections of all kinds of map related information.

00:00 Intro
Search Engine News
03:51 Ask Additions to Smart Answers
04:26 Ask has Movie and TV Information
05:06 Yahoo! Toolbar for Firefox
05:43 Geotagging with Flickr
06:44 Yahoo Search redirecting to Site Explorer
07:37 Yahoo Blog Search Gone?
08:31 Google Book Downloads
09:42 Google News Archive
11:09 New Search Site ChaCha

Main Topic
12:44 Intro to Maps and Driving Directions
14:16 MSN Maps & Directions
16:55 Yahoo Maps
18:46 Google Maps
20:54 Google Earth
21:26 MapQuest
23:36 Compare Google and Yahoo Maps Side-by-Side
24:50 Library of Congress Map Resources
26:32 U of Texas Austin Map Resources

27:43 Wrapup

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Technorati Tags: driving directions, Google Earth, Google maps, Mapquest, maps, MSN Maps, Yahoo maps

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This is the first episode of Searching the Internet Quick Tips, a short podcast focusing on one site or search tip. The first episode discusses Farecast. This site helps predict what will happen to the future price of a given round trip airline ticket.

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Technorati Tags: air travel, Farecast, travel, trip planner

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Episode 009 covers some search engines news and then how to search for images and pictures using Google, Yahoo, Ask, and Altavista as well as Flickr, Picsearch and Ditto.

00:00 Intro
Search Engine News
01:56 Google Teams up to protect against Badware
02:30 Google Maps Saves Locations
03:46 Yahoo Search Builder

Image Searching
08:54 Google Images
12:48 Yahoo Image Search
18:03 Altavista Image Search
21:55 Ask Image Search
24:34 Flickr Image Search
27:30 Picsearch
30:13 Ditto Image Search

Other single page search sites
Fravia
Search-22
Langenberg Images Search

32:09 Wrapup

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Technorati Tags: Altavista, Ask, Ditto, Flickr, Google, image search, photo search, Picsearch, picture search, search engine, Yahoo

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Episode 008 covers some searching for tags using Technorati and other meta-search sites for tags such as Keotag, Tagground, Tagjag, and Tagfetch.

00:00 Intro
Search Engine News
01:22 Technorati Redesigned
02:29 Ask adds blog posts to Smart Answers
03:17 Yahoo redirects some link and site searches
04:10 Become.com

Tag Search Sites
06:47 Yahoo’s My Web
08:47 Technorati
12:02 Tagground
13:41 Tagjag
15:12 TagFetch
17:01 Keotag
20:04 Wrapup

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Technorati Tags: Ask, Become.com, Keotag, tag searching, Tagfetch, tagging, Tagground, Tagjag, tags, Technorati, Yahoo

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Episode 007 touches on some topics from previous episodes and then covers some search engines news and concentrates on how to find podcasts with iTunes, Yahoo podcasts and Podcast Alley as well as newcomers Zapzap and Pluggd. This episode also discusses searching within podcasts using Podscope and Podzinger.

00:00 Intro
Search Engine News
03:00 Zoominfo
03:33 Yahoo Trip Planner
03:51 Ask fixes blocking
04:21 Counting links
05:36 Answers.com natural language queries
06:24 New search engine ExactSeek
07:07 Merriam-Webster adds ‘google’ as a verb

Finding Podcasts
08:37 iTunes Podcast Directory
09:46 iTunes Today’s Top Podcasts
10:03 iTunes Podcast Description
10:12 iTunes Customer Reviews
10:33 iTunes New and Notable
12:49 iTunes Podcast Description: Science Friday
13:49 Podcast Alley
15:07 Podcast Alley’s Top Podcasts
16:26 Podcast Alley Blog
16:42 Podcast Alley Search Results
17:25 Yahoo! Podcasts
18:52 Yahoo! Podcasts Search Results
19:56 Podzinger
20:59 Podzinger Search Results
23:39 Podscope
24:48 Pluggd
25:50 Zapzap
28:07 Wrapup
29:16 Promo Amateur Traveler Podcast

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Technorati Tags: Answers.com, Ask, iTunes, Pluggd, podcast, Podcast Alley, Podscope, Podzinger, search engine, trip planner, Zapzap, Zoominfo

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