Searching the Internet

This quick tip covers the new Yahoo Audio Search. Yahoo now gives you the ability to search across various online music stores as well as podcasts and other audio content on the web. It is great for finding all kinds of audio in a variety of way and has several option to help you find exactly what you want. I’m a big fan and will definitely use it in the future.

STIQT007-2007-08-21_Yahoo_Audio_Search.mp3

This quick tips covers the search site CrossEngine, a new wat to use the same query on multiple search engines. This site allows you to use the same query and just select which search engine you want to use. It has a wide choice of areas to search such as blogs, the web, audio, video and many more. It’s one of my favorite sites and I use it extensively now.

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In Searching the Intenet Quick Tips number 5 we cover Scandoo, a way to ensure the sites you find with Google, Yahoo, MSN or Ask are safe sites based on preferences you control. The results are displayed with a green checkmark for sites that are okay, a red sign with an X if they violate one of your setting in your preferences and an orange question mark if scandoo doesn’t know the site or hasn’t scanned it.

STIQT005-2007-01-30_Scandoo.mp3

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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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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.

STIQT002-2006-09-15.mp3

Technorati Tags: Google, MSN Search, Yahoo

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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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