Searching the Internet

Episode 006 of Searching the Internet covers some search engines news and then concentrates on blog searches. The sites covered include Google, Yahoo, Ask, Gigablast as well as IceRocket, Clusty, Technorati, Sphere, Blogpulse, and Blogdigger.

00:00 Intro

Search Engine News
01:33 Google updates Macintosh software
02:09 Google Government Search
02:41 Google Sync Tools
03:34 Google Indexing Spam
03:34 Google words censored in China
05:03 Google Book Search for Shakespeare
06:02 Ask does blog search
06:44 Ask official search engine for “Treasure Hunters”
07:10 Ask blocking some searches
08:33 Yahoo Answers now international

Major Blog Search Engines
11:16 Google Blog Search
13:17 Yahoo Blog Search
14:35 Minezone’s Yahoo Blog Search Bookmarklet
15:10 Ask Blog Search
19:16 Gigablast Blog Search

Established Blog Search Engines
21:12 IceRocket Blog Search
24:12 Clusty Blog Search
26:06 Technorati Blog Search

New Blog Search Engines
30:35 Sphere Blog Search
33:26 Blogpulse Blog Search
35:42 Blogdigger Blog Search

37:14 Wrapup

* = Sphere only goes back 4 months currently.
Search was performed on each search engine on June 26, 2006.

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Technorati Tags: Ask, blog search, Blogdigger, Blogpulse, Clusty, Gigablast, Google, Icerocket, search engine, Technorati, Yahoo

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Episode 005 of Searching the Internet covers travel related search sites such as Travelocity, Expedia, Hotels.com and more as well as some lesser know but very good newcomers to the travel search market. Also how to choose a seat on a airline flight and some places for information on various vacation destinations.

00:00 Intro
Search Engine News
01:42 Gapminder.org: A interactive flash presentation of various data available on countries around the world.

Major Travel Search Sites
03:58 Expedia
05:12 Travelocity
06:33 Yahoo’s Farechase
10:20 Orbitz
12:11 Sidestep

New Travel Search Sites
16:34 Kayak
19:06 Dohop
20:05 Mobissimo Travel
21:35 Summary of Airfare Sites

Airline and Airport Information
23:20 Airwise
24:55 Skytrax Airlinequailty
26:56 Airtimetable.com
28:19 Summary of Airtravel Sites
Selecting your Airline Seat
29:14 Seatguru
31:26 Sidestep
32:23 Seat Expert
33:19 Summary of Seat Selection Sites

Hotels.com and Sites With Destiniation Guides
33:51 Hotels.com
36:37 Fodors
38:14 Independent Traveler
40:17 Lonely Planet
30:10 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
25:00 Wrapup

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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

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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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Initial episode of Searching the Internet.

This episode discusses several different search engines and what I like about them with a focus on finding RSS feeds.

01:13 About Ed Vawter
02:08 Exalead search engine
03:04 Google personalization. Becoming a portal?
04:10 Ask redesigned
05:03 Yahoo advanced search for XML/RSS
06:18 About RSS
10:02 Yahoo including links to Wikipedia articles
11:13 Fagan Finder, a set of search sites for blogs and RSS
11:59 FeedForAll, good crossplatform software for creating RSS feeds
12:31 Feeder, Mac only software for creating RSS feeds
13:03 Wrap up

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