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Anything but GoogleYou can say “NO” to Google
Tuesday, 19th November 2013, LondonKaren Blakeman
[email protected], 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
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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
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Gary's Social Media Count | PERSONALIZE MEDIA http://www.personalizemedia.com/garys-social-media-count/
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What is used depends on the topic
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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
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Apple Makes Bing The "Default Search Engine" For Siri http://searchengineland.com/apple-makes-bing-the-default-search-engine-for-siri-162736
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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
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Limit by date
Bing – US version only Yahoo – all versions
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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
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Bing search history
“Adaptive search” – but can turn off search history
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Bing gets personal – US users only
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Bing vs Google
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bingiton.com
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Bing
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
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Yahoo! Finance
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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
DuckDuckGo – silly name but a neat little search tool http://www.rba.co.uk/wordpress/2011/11/07/duckduckgo-silly-name-but-a-neat-little-search-tool/ 11/04/23 www.rba.co.uk 18
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)
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DuckDuckGo
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DuckDuckGo
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Found 8 results . Compare with Bing (6) and Google (59)
DuckDuckGo
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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
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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:
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Ask
http://www.ask.com/ http://uk.ask.com/
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Ixquick
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eTools.ch
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Carrotsearch circles
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Carrotsearch FoamTree
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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
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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
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WolframAlpha
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http://www.bing.com/translator
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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
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Microsoft Academic Search
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Microsoft Academic Search
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Mandated Open Access
US
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
UK
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
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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
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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Article may be OA but public access outside of the institution may be not allowed or difficult
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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!
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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/
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Images
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Bing images
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Bing US version has a license option
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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
found occasional ‘all rights reserved’ images]
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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
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TinEye Multicolr http://labs.tineye.com/multicolr
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Historypin http://www.historypin.com/
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Photos, video, audio – all types of licensesUses Google Maps, Street View and other apps
Historypin
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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/
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Statistics
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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/
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UK National Statistics & ONS
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/, http://www.ons.gov.uk/
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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.
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Publication Hub search (statistics.gov.uk)
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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
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European Union - Open Data Portal http://open-data.europa.eu/open-data/
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Datamarket http://datamarket.com/
Open portal to datasets worldwide and market research
Creates visualisations of the data
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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
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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/
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Guardian Data Store http://www.guardian.co.uk/data
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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
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Video
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)
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News, alerts and current awareness
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News other than Google
Bing and Yahoo News nowhere near as comprehensive as Google
Follow favourite newspapers
Follow favourite blogs
Identify subject/industry portals
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ProQuest Newsstand
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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
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Paper.lihttp://paper.li/karenblakeman
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Paper.lihttp://paper.li/karenblakeman/1321447614
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Scoop.it http://www.scoop.it/
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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
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My own reader – RSSOwl (desktop only)
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Talkwalker http://www.talkwalker.com/ (subscription)
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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….
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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/
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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