Anything but Google: you can say "NO" to Google

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Anything but GoogleYou can say “NO” to Google

Tuesday, 19th November 2013, LondonKaren Blakeman

karen.blakeman@rba.co.uk, www.rba.co.uk

Slides available at http://www.rba.co.uk/as/Also on authorSTREAM and Slideshare

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Why not Google?

Results vary from one moment to the next– results are personalised

– 500-600 changes to its algorithms/year

– we are all Google’s lab rats subjected to up to 12 experiments each time we visit

– Just Testing: Google Users May See Up To A Dozen Experiments

• http://searchengineland.com/just-testing-google-searchers-may-see-up-to-a-dozen-experiments-141570

Google is continually dropping advanced search commands and options

– more difficult to get what WE want instead of what Google thinks we want

It’s difficult to kick the Google habit

Good coverage

Much of the time it gives reasonable results

Personalisation is sometimes a good thing

Synchronisation across multiple platforms and services means can access calendars, bookmarks, maps and directions any time, anywhere

Can’t escape “Powered by Google” - Google search engine used by many websites for searching their pages

Gary's Social Media Count | PERSONALIZE MEDIA http://www.personalizemedia.com/garys-social-media-count/

What is used depends on the topic

http://www.business2community.com/google-plus/is-google-really-the-2nd-most-popular-social-network-0518140

Is Google+ Really The 2nd Most Popular Social Network?

Google+ probably not intentionally used by searchers. Reviews of hotels found via Google Maps are on Google+

Search Engine Market Share http://theeword.co.uk/info/search_engine_market.html

Apple Makes Bing The "Default Search Engine" For Siri http://searchengineland.com/apple-makes-bing-the-default-search-engine-for-siri-162736

Private browsing - quickest way “un-personalise”search

Private Browsing/Incognito ignores tracking and search cookies

– Chrome - New Incognito window - Ctrl+Shift+N

– FireFox - File, New Private Window - Ctrl+Shift+P

– Internet Explorer – Tools, InPrivate Browsing [location varies depending on which version you have] - Ctrl+Shift+P

– Opera – File, New Private Window - Ctrl+Shift+N

– Safari – click on Safari next to the Apple symbol in the menu bar, select Private Browsing and then click on OK.

Will not remove country personalisation

Bing/Yahoo

Yahoo now uses Bing’s database, commands and ranking algorithmsYahoo Finance still available

No advanced search screen on Bing - use commands

List at Advanced Operator Reference http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff795620.aspx

filetype: site: inbody: inurl:

AND, NOT, OR parentheses for complex Boolean searches

NEAR:n where n is a number, specifies that the terms must be within that number of words of each other and in any order-banana NEAR:3 toffee

Date option only for US version

Limit by date

Bing – US version only Yahoo – all versions

Bing http://www.bing.com/

Results seem to be more consumer/retail focused– more ‘shopping’ than research

– results improve as soon as you start using the advanced search commands

Sometimes more up to date than Google– updates sites more frequently

– adds new sites more quickly

– useful if you are looking for information on a new company or organisation

BUT interesting features and options available to US users only– changing location and version of Bing does not always work

– using anonymous proxy does not always work

Bing search history

“Adaptive search” – but can turn off search history

Bing gets personal – US users only

Bing vs Google

bingiton.com

Bing images – good alternative to Google

Bing videos – good alternative to Google (includes YouTube in results)

Bing maps – much improved over the last 2-3 years and generally a good alternative to Google but availability of different views including Streetside dependant on location

Bing news – limited coverage of non-US and regional titles compared with Google

Bing Social (Twitter and Facebook search) – US only

Close links and integration with Facebook, also LinkedIn

Yahoo! Finance

DuckDuckGo – http://duckduckgo.com/

Does not track, does not personalise

Results are a compilation of about 50 sources including Wikipedia, Wolfram Alpha, Bing, Blekko and its own Web crawler DuckDuckBot

Advanced search commands include:

site: inbody: intitle: filetype: sort:date to sort by date (uses results from Blekko)region:cc (e.g. de) to boost a country

DuckDuckGo Syntax http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/300304

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DuckDuckGo

Great if you are fed up with Google “spamming” your results list with pages from just two or three sites

Great if you want a good range of different types of sites in your results

Web is the default but click on the downward pointing arrow next to the search box on the results page to see other options (some of them Google)

DuckDuckGo

Found 8 results . Compare with Bing (6) and Google (59)

DuckDuckGo

Millionshort http://millionshort.com

Million Short: unearthing information hidden in the dungeons of Google’s results

– http://www.rba.co.uk/wordpress/2012/10/04/million-short-unearthing-stuff-hidden-in-the-dungeons-of-googles-results/

Uses Bing API plus other sources

Great for finding specialist articles that Google buries beyond reach

Removes top 10k sites from results - can change to top million, 100k, 1k, 100

Can add sites back in, can block sites

Can “Boost!” sites so that they always appear at the top

Can use site: and filetype: commands

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Million Short

Yandex http://www.yandex.com/

– for filetype use mime:

diabetic retinopathy mime:pptx

– has an advanced search screen at http://yandex.com/search/advanced

Blekko http://www.blekko.com/

Ask http://www.ask.com/

Teoma http://www.teoma.com/

– all three support filetype: and site:

Yandex http://www.yandex.com/

Blekko http://blekko.com/

http://www.ask.com/ http://uk.ask.com/

Teoma http://www.teoma.com/

Exalead http://www.exalead.com/search/

iSeek http://www.iseek.com/

Ixquick

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eTools.ch

Carrotsearch http://carrotsearch.com/

Carrotsearch circles

Carrotsearch FoamTree

Ixquick Web Search https://www.ixquick.com/

“The world’s most private search engine”

Does not track, does not record IP address, does not store searches, autocomplete for searches disabled

Does not use Google – sister website startpage.com offers anonymous Google results

Can use filetype: and site: commands

Has date options

Web, images and video (powered by Blinkx) search

Sometimes heavy on ads

WolframAlpha

http://www.wolframalpha.com/

Computational knowledge engine, curated data

Click Examples, Random, or an image in the homepage background to get an idea of what it covers

WolframAlpha

http://www.bing.com/translator

Free specialist tools for research information and grey literature (anything

but Google Scholar!)

Microsoft Academic Search

http://academic.research.microsoft.com/

Journal articles, pre-prints, post-prints, conference proceedings, reports and white papers

Free to use but the full text of some papers can only be viewed on payment of a fee to the original journal publisher

Author may have several different profiles and articles may be assigned to wrong author

Sometimes very slow to load

Uses Silverlight for the charts

Mandated Open Access

All research publications resulting from work funded by the US National Institutes of Health are expected to be deposited in PubMed Central (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/)

– some material embargoed for up to 12 or 24 months (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/journals/)

– Europe PubMed Central (http://europepmc.org/) part of PMC network of international repositories

1st of April 2013 - researchers at UK Research Institutions are expected to publish as open access any peer‐reviewed research papers and conference proceedings that acknowledge Research Council UK funding

UK Gold versus Green OA

Gold OA– researchers publish their articles in journals that offer open access

publishing (can be established “conventional” publishers)– articles can be made available free of charge to readers

immediately – author or institution/department pays article processing fee

– CC-BY

Green OA – researchers deposit copies of articles in an institutional or subject-

based repository, subject to copyright/license permissions – repository makes copies available to the public either immediately or

embargoed (more common) – period of embargo varies (for example

http://cdn.elsevier.com/assets/pdf_file/0018/121293/external-embargo-list.pdf)

– CC-BY-NC

Fragmentation of open access

Where are the open access publications?– Individual OA articles within existing subscription

journals?

– Separate OA journals?

– Publishers web site?

– Author’s website

– Institutional repositories

– Aggregators e.g. Scopus, Web of Science, Google?

– “Predatory publishers”

• see Jeffrey Beall’s list at http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/

Institutional repositories and open access

BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine http://www.base-search.net/

CORE (COnnecting Repositories) http://core.kmi.open.ac.uk/search

DART-Europe E-theses Portal http://www.dart-europe.eu/basic-search.php

DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals http://www.doaj.org/doaj

Institutional Repository Search (IRS) http://irs.mimas.ac.uk/

Open DOAR http://opendoar.org/

RIAN - Pathways to Irish Research http://rian.ie

ROAR - Registry of Open Access Repositories http://roar.eprints.org/

OpenAIRE http://www.openaire.eu/

Specialist search tools for research information

A selection can be found at http://www.rba.co.uk/search/links.shtml#research

ArXiv http://arxiv.org/

BioMed Central http://www.biomedcentral.com/

Chemistry Central http://www.chemistrycentral.com/

ChemSpider http://www.chemspider.com/

Deep Web TechnologiesMednar http://mednar.com/Science.gov http://www.science.gov/Science Research http://scienceresearch.com/WorldWideScience http://worldwidescience.org/

Specialist search tools for research information

Europe PubMed Central http://europepmc.org/

Mendeley http://www.mendeley.com/

Open Biology http://rsob.royalsocietypublishing.org/

PhilPapers: Online Research in Philosophy http://philpapers.org/

PubMed Central http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/

Scirus http://www.scirus.com/ [Closing in 2014]

TechXtra http://www.techxtra.ac.uk/

JSTOR http://www.jstor.org/

Article may be OA but public access outside of the institution may be not allowed or difficult

WATER report published | SCONUL http://www.sconul.ac.uk/news/water-report-published Walk-in Access To E-Resources

Author/researcher ID

Bring Your Own Identity (BYOI)

ResearcherID http://wokinfo.com/researcherid/

Open Researcher and Contributor Identifier - ORCID http://orcid.org/ – Why Every Researcher Should Sign Up For Their ORCID ID– http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2013/01/09/why-every-researcher

-should-sign-up-for-their-orcid-id/

ResearchGate http://www.researchgate.net/ – Why I’m Evaluating ResearchGate– http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2013/02/06/why-im-evaluating-res

earchgate

......and there are more!

Grey literature

Literature that has been “peer reviewed” or assessed/approved in some way by colleagues or subject experts but is not easy to find or access

Print run may have been small, possibly never published electronically

Published on the web but page or site is no longer available. (Use web archives e.g. http://www.archive.org/).

Research & technical papers, government reports, pre-prints, market surveys, press releases, committee papers, conference papers, presentations

Use advanced search commands to try and track down information

GreyNet International, Grey Literature Network Service – http://www.greynet.org/ – http://www.opengrey.eu/

OpenGrey http://www.opengrey.eu/

Images

Bing images

Bing US version has a license option

TinEye Reverse Image Search http://www.tineye.com/

Search using an uploaded image or a URL of an image

Finds out where an image came from, how it’s being used, modified versions, if a higher resolution version exists

Plug-in for Firefox, Chrome, Safari, IE, Opera

Free version not as comprehensive as Google’s reverse image search

Search Creative Commons images by colour– http://labs.tineye.com/multicolr– select up to 5 colours– can adjust the proportions of each colour– check copyright license on original image before using [I’ve

Creative Commons and public domain images

Always check the copyright on individual photos

Flickr Creative Commons http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons

Multicolr Search Lab http://labs.tineye.com/multicolr

Chromatik – Exalead Labs http://chromatik.labs.exalead.com/

Wikimedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/

MorgueFile.com http://www.morguefile.com/

Geograph http://www.geograph.org.uk/ “UK and Ireland photos of landmarks and buildings for every Ordnance Survey grid”

Wellcome Images http://wellcomeimages.org/

Most of the images on US government web sites

Nasa http://www.nasa.gov/

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http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons

TinEye Multicolr http://labs.tineye.com/multicolr

http://chromatik.labs.exalead.com/

Geograph http://www.geograph.org.uk/

Historypin http://www.historypin.com/

Photos, video, audio – all types of licensesUses Google Maps, Street View and other apps

Historypin

Pinterest http://www.pinterest.com/

BBC - Your Paintings – http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/

Looking for photographs | The National Archives – http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/looking-for-subject/pho

tographs.htm

Flickr: The National Archives UK's Photostream – http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalarchives/

English Heritage Images of England: a searchable photographic archive of the historic buildings of England

– http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/

ViewFinder– http://viewfinder.english-heritage.org.uk/

Local libraries, for example Old Newcastle in Photos– http://www.flickr.com/photos/newcastlelibraries/collections/721576

22600850187/

Statistics

Official statistics

OFFSTATS http://www.offstats.auckland.ac.nz/

UK National Statistics Publication Hub– http://www.statistics.gov.uk/

Office for National Statistics– http://www.ons.gov.uk/

Welsh Government | Statistics– http://wales.gov.uk/topics/statistics/

Welsh Assembly Government StatsWales– http://statswales.wales.gov.uk/

data.gov.uk – http://data.gov.uk/

Eurostat – http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/

European Union Open Data Portal – http://open-dat.europa.eu/en/

http://www.offstats.auckland.ac.nz/

UK National Statistics & ONS

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/, http://www.ons.gov.uk/

Publication Hub (http://www.statistics.gov.uk/) is an “index” to what is available and links through to other sites when necessary.

ONS (http://www.ons.gov.uk/) only shows reports since 2008 even if there are earlier editions. Use the Publication Hub to search for the report title/series. Once you have found an edition of the title click on “Current and past editions” to see the list of editions available. Then click on the relevant report.

Publication Hub search (statistics.gov.uk)

data.gov.uk http://data.gov.uk/

Not all of the data on this site is open data – may be restrictions on use

Download links sometimes take you to the wrong dataset

Download links sometimes completely broken

It’s all or nothing! Have to filter the datasets for the information you want and produce your own graphs and charts

Variety of formats

Eurostat http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat

European Union - Open Data Portal http://open-data.europa.eu/open-data/

Datamarket http://datamarket.com/

Open portal to datasets worldwide and market research

Creates visualisations of the data

Zanran http://www.zanran.com/

Searches graphs, charts, tables, PDFs, spreadsheets

Can limit by location of server, date, and filetype

Title in results list is usually the title or caption to the table and not title of the document

Hover over the thumbnail to see a preview of the table or page

Click on the URL button next to the result to view the original URL of the document

– clicking on it may take you to “page not found” 404

Click on the title of the result to see Zanran’s own copy (free registration usually required

Useful if document no longer available at it’s original location and can’t be found in any of the web archives

Zanran

http://www.zanran.com/

Zanran – great for data in tables, charts and graphs http://www.rba.co.uk/wordpress/2013/01/25/zanran-great-for-data-in-tables-charts-and-graphs/

Guardian Data Store http://www.guardian.co.uk/data

Data and analysis on topics that are in the newsSome data sets created from information obtained via FoILinks to the original datasets are provided

Dog bites data: how likely are you to get bitten? http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2013/mar/27/dog-bites-data

Bing Videos http://www.bing.com/videos/

Vimeo “Your Videos Belong Here” https://vimeo.com/

Dailymotion http://www.dailymotion.com/gb

Dogpile Video Search (includes Google) http://www.dogpile.co.uk/

blinkx Video “A simple way to discover and share great videos” http://www.blinkx.com/

Individual news sites

BBC Archives, Rare Clips & Video Archives - BBC Motion Gallery http://www.bbcmotiongallery.com/gallery/home/archives.do (priced service)

ITN Source “The world's leading provider of archive footage” http://www.itnsource.com/en/ (priced service)

News, alerts and current awareness

News other than Google

Bing and Yahoo News nowhere near as comprehensive as Google

Follow favourite newspapers

Follow favourite blogs

Identify subject/industry portals

Twitter

Facebook

ProQuest Newsstand

http://www.proquest.co.uk/en-UK/catalogs/databases/detail/newsstand.shtml

Selection also available through public libraries

Paper.lihttp://paper.li/

Create a “newspaper” from your Twitterstream, Google+ account, Facebook, or for a hashtag or keyword

Sign in with your Twitter or Facebook account– set up a separate account if you prefer for use with

Paper.li, a “nom de plume”

Automatically identifies articles, videos, photos from links in postings

All papers are public

Paper.lihttp://paper.li/karenblakeman

Paper.lihttp://paper.li/karenblakeman/1321447614

Scoop.it http://www.scoop.it/

Curated news e.g. http://www.scoop.it/t/internet-search

Free alerting services

Google email and RSS alerts are seriously broken– do not alert you to everything that is new– alerts sometimes ‘die’– often bring up old material that you’ve already seen– duplicate information

Email alerts becoming a rarity– some web sites and blogs offer email subscription to new

content – often use RSS to email conversion tools such as Feedburner (how long will that be around?)

RSS feeds on news sites often all or nothing

Need an RSS reader e.g. Netvibes, Feedly, FeedReader– Phil Bradley's weblog: 20 Alternatives to Google Reader – http://philbradley.typepad.com/phil_bradleys_weblog/

2013/03/20-alternatives-to-google-reader.html

My own reader – RSSOwl (desktop only)

Talkwalker http://www.talkwalker.com/ (subscription)

Where is information shared and discussed?

“Conventional” web publishing

Institutional repositories

Comments section on articles

Linkedin (professional issues)

Facebook (personal and consumer focussed)

Twitter (great for following conferences)

Google+ (personal, business and communities)

Blogs and blog comments

YouTube

Flickr

Discussion boards

…. everywhere….

Which ones should you consider

Depends on the nature of your “business” and type of enquiry

Where do you, organisations similar to you , or your competitors have a presence?

Some search tools for searching across multiple networks– Not very reliable

– Networks may restrict access via APIs

Often get better results when searching inside the social network

- need to sign up for an account

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Topsy.com

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http://www.socialmention.com/

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http://www.addictomatic.com/

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Twitter Search http://search.twitter.com/

Advanced Twitter search - https://twitter.com/search-advanced

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Use advanced Twitter search commands

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See also the free guide on Searching Twitter at http://www.rba.co.uk/search/TwitterSearch.shtml

Tweetdeck

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Facebook Graph Search

Change your language to English US under account settingsIncreasingly used by recruitment agencies and advertisers

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Tracking down websites and pages that have disappeared

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UK Government Web Archive | The National Archives http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/webarchive/

Browse by category or choose your organisation from an A-Z listChoose the date of the archived version of the website you want to view

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UK Government Web Archive | The National Archives http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/webarchive/

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http://www.webarchive.org.uk/ukwa/

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http://www.legislation.gov.uk/

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Wayback Machine http://www.archive.org/

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Digital Education Resource Archive (DERA) http://dera.ioe.ac.uk/

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Keeping up to date

Inside Search http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/

Official Google Blog http://googleblog.blogspot.com/

Google Scholar Blog http://googlescholar.blogspot.com/

SearchReSearch : http://searchresearch1.blogspot.co.uk/

Search Engine Land http://searchengineland.com/

Search Engine Watch http://searchenginewatch.com/

Boolean Black Belt-Sourcing/Recruiting http://www.booleanblackbelt.com/

Karen Blakeman’s Blog http://www.rba.co.uk/wordpress/

Phil Bradley's weblog http://philbradley.typepad.com/

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Free fact sheets http://www.rba.co.uk/search/

Search Strategies - Search Tools Summary and Comparison of Commands (Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo)

– http://www.rba.co.uk/search/compare.shtml

Search Strategies - Top Search Tips– http://www.rba.co.uk/search/TopSearchTips.shtml

Searching Twitter– http://www.rba.co.uk/search/TwitterSearch.shtml

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