alternatives to google
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Presentation given at the Internet Sourcing Workshop, 17th September 2013, Prospero House, Borough High Street, London. Part of the Discover Sourcing conference organised by UK Sourcers.TRANSCRIPT
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Alternatives to GoogleInternet Sourcing Workshop
17th September 2013, London#discsource
This presentation is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License
twitter: @karenblakemanhttp://www.linkedin.com/in/karenblakeman
Search Engine Market Share http://theeword.co.uk/info/search_engine_market.html
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Gary's Social Media Count | PERSONALIZE MEDIA http://www.personalizemedia.com/garys-social-media-count/
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Bing/Yahoo
http://www.bing.com/ http://www.yahoo.com/
Yahoo now uses Bing’s database, commands and ranking algorithms
No advanced search screen - 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
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Limit by date
Bing – US version only Yahoo
Bing
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
Many features and options available to US users only– changing your location does not always work
– using anonymous proxy does not always work
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Bing gets personal – US version only
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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/ 11/04/2023 www.rba.co.uk 8
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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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: zeolites environmental remediation mime:pptx
site: command supportedzeolites environmental remediation site:ac.uk
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/
Support both filetype: and site:
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Yandex http://www.yandex.com/
International version of the Russian search engine
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Ask
http://www.ask.com/ http://uk.ask.com/
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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Blogs
Many academics, researchers, industry experts have active blogs
Great way to identify experts especially within new and innovative technologies and industries
Almost instant publication of posts
Search using http://www.google.com/blogsearch/ or click on More in the menu above your results in Google and then Blogs
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Slideshare http://www.slideshare.net/
Search using Slideshare’s own search engine or use Google site:
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Twitter search
Great for following events (follow the hashtag), identifying speakers, industry experts, finding out more about a person’s interests
Use followers, following and lists to find people with similar interests and expertise
Twitter search http://search.twitter.com/, http://twitter.com/search-advanced
Instructions and advanced commands at http://www.rba.co.uk/search/TwitterSearch.shtml
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Twitter search commands
Oxford University for both Oxford and University (default)
“Oxford University” for the exact phrase “Oxford University” beer OR ale finds tweets containing either beer or ale, or both (note that OR must be in capital letters) beer –skittles contains beer but not skittles
#ili2009 contains the hashtag #ili2009 #ili2009 filter:links contains the hashtag #ili2009 and URLs. An excellent way of finding links to conference presentations and related material.
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Twitter search commands
from:karenblakeman Tweets sent by karenblakeman
to:karenblakeman Tweets sent to karenblakeman
@karenblakeman Tweets referring to karenblakeman #ili2009 since:2009-10-01 contains #ili2009 and sent since 1st October 2009. The format is YYYY-MM-DD #ili2009 until:2009-10-31 Contains #ili2009 and sent up to 31 st October 2009. The format is YYYY-MM-DD snow :( contains snow and a negative sentiment snow :) contains snow and a positive sentiment
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Twitter search
Topsy http://www.topsy.com/ recently revamped – access to all of Twitter, priced access to full analytic features
Twazzup http://www.twazzup.com/ good for analysing activity around a conference hashtag
Tagboard http://tagboard.com/
Tweepz.com - Find People to Follow on Twitter http://tweepz.com/
Followerwonk: Twitter analytics, follower segmentation, social graph tracking, & more http://followerwonk.com/
Facebook Graph Search
Change your language to English US under account settings [has not worked for me]
Facebook Graph Search Demo http://uksourcers.co.uk/2013/facebook-graph-search-demo/
Facebook Opengraph Search http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKWl8nchpX8
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LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/
Company Check - includes free UK company director search http://www.companycheck.co.uk/
Pipl - People Search http://pipl.com/
123people.co.uk http://www.123people.co.uk/
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/ 11/04/2023 www.rba.co.uk 30
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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