information update may 2010 new tools in google
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Information UpdateInformation UpdateNew Tools in GoogleNew Tools in Google
May 2010May 2010
Inbar Yasur
www.hipusit.info
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Google.com – “Show options” – NearbyGoogle.com – “Show options” – Nearby
Once you click ‘Nearby’ Google will restrict the results just to your local area. You can even adjust the tool to show other areas’ nearby results by entering a custom location.
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Google.com – “Show options” – NearbyGoogle.com – “Show options” – Nearby
[things to do on st. patrick's day] - In the Minneapolis region
[food blogs] - Near you
[farmers market] - Near the city of Ithaca
[dmv] - In the same state as Tucson
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Google Show options – Timeline view of search resultsGoogle Show options – Timeline view of search results
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Google Show options – Timeline view of search resultsGoogle Show options – Timeline view of search results
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Google Show options – UpdatesGoogle Show options – Updates
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Google.com – “Show options”Google.com – “Show options”
Sites with images / Fewer shopping sites / page previewSites with images / Fewer shopping sites / page preview
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Google NewsGoogle News
news.google.com
Google News now displays the authors of some news stories.
• The author names are clickable, resulting in other stories by the same
reporter.
• The News Advanced Search page added a field for author searches.
• The prefix of a u t h o r : followed by the author's name in quotes can also
be used.
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Google Fast FlipGoogle Fast Flip
http://fastflip.googlelabs.com/
Google Fast Flip is a web application that lets users discover and share news articles.
Combines qualities of print and the Web, with the ability to "flip" through pages online as quickly
as flipping through a magazine.
Enables users to follow friends and topics, discover new content and create their own custom
magazines around searches.
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Google News Browse mode for newspaperGoogle News Browse mode for newspaper
newstimeline.google labs.com
Google has found, indexed, scanned, and made available endless newspaper material for you to
browse (for free of course).
Exactly which papers you can browse is not laid out in perfect terms, but if you are searching for an
article and you see the “Browse This Newspaper” button, you are all set.
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Google News Browse mode for newspaperGoogle News Browse mode for newspaper
news.google.com/
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Google News Quote FinderGoogle News Quote Finder
http://www.news.google.com/
Google News can now detect quotes in news articles and attribute them to their authors.
If you search for people, Google News will display a relevant quote and a link to other quotes from
recent news articles.
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Google News Quote FinderGoogle News Quote Finder
http://news.google.com/
You can search inside the quotes, sort them by date, restrict them to the last day or the last week.
By default, Google sorts the quotes by relevance and gives more weight to the quotes that are used
often.
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VoxaleadVoxalead
http://voxaleadnews.labs.exalead.com/
A technology demonstrator that searches inside multimedia content (audio and video).
Uses a Speech-to-Text transcription module from LIMSI (IT Laboratory for Mechanics and Engineering
Sciences, an entity of CNRS) to transcribe speech
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Google Alerts – Feed me! – Not just for email anymoreGoogle Alerts – Feed me! – Not just for email anymore
http://www.google.com/alerts
Alerts have been delivered via email only, but those days are over…
Now your News, Web, Blog, Video, and Groups alerts are more easily accessible through feeds.
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Google BlogsGoogle Blogs
http://blogsearch.google.com/
Google Blog Search now has RSS feeds available for its search results along with the older email alerts.
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Google BlogsGoogle Blogs
http://blogsearch.google.com/
The Blog Search front page has also added two new sections on the right side:
Hot Queries shows popular Blog Search queries
Recent Posts features new posts from popular blog
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Google Reader tracks web page changesGoogle Reader tracks web page changes
Google Reader has an option that will allow you to monitor changes to most web pages.
All you need to do is log into Google and open Google Reader, click Add a subscription, and then enter
the URL of the page you want to monitor.
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Tracking changes to web page content – more toolsTracking changes to web page content – more tools
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Google TrendsGoogle Trends
http://www.google.com/trends
Using Google Trends, you can compare search volume patterns across specific regions,
languages, and time periods. Sign in with your Google Account to:
Increase precision
See numbers on the graph for a better understanding of Google Trends data.
Export data
Easily export data for your own analysis.
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Google Flu TrendsGoogle Flu Trends
http://www.google.org/about/flutrends/how.html
Google has found that certain search terms are good indicators of flu activity.
Google Flu Trends uses aggregated Google search data to estimate current flu activity
around the world in near real-time.
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Google Public Data ExplorerGoogle Public Data Explorer
http://www.google.com/publicdata/home
Google Public Data Explorer is an example of Google taking public data and making it more
intelligible. The data sets include the OECD Factbook, World Bank statistics, US Census
data, and Eurostat tables, among others.
You specify a data range, and Google will generate a line chart, bar chart, map or bubble
chart.
Keeping in mind that much of our added value is in making sense out of information, this
Google tool may be a helpful way of visualizing information for your clients.
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Google Image SwirlGoogle Image Swirl
http://image-swirl.googlelabs.com/
Google Image Swirl combines a variety of image similarity features with additional metadata about the
images to build a hierarchy of clusters of image search result
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Google Image SwirlGoogle Image Swirl
http://image-swirl.googlelabs.com/
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Bing Image SearchBing Image Search
http://www.bing.com/images?FORM=Z9LH
No Page Break – Just keep scrolling down
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Idee MulticolrIdee Multicolr
http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/#
Search for up to 10 colors
No key word searching of content
Flicker Creative commons images
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Google gogglesGoogle goggles
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Google gogglesGoogle goggles
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/authorsview.authors/cite_alert
Google Goggles lets you search Google using pictures from your camera phones.
Takes an image as input, and using several image recognition backends (object recognition, place
matching, OCR, etc), returns relevant search results.
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TinEyeTinEye
http://www.tineye.com/
TinEye is a reverse image search engine. It finds out where an image came from, how
it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or if there is a higher
resolution version
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Google Scholar Citation GadgetGoogle Scholar Citation Gadget
http://code.google.com/p/citations-gadget/
Enables users to search for the total number of citations of author(s). It provides a total citation count,
total number of cited publications and Jorge E. Hirsch's H-Index..
This gadget queries Google Scholar in the same fashion as a web-browser.
The returned results are initially analysed for the total amount of publications found. This information is
subsequently used in order to retrieve all necessary pages of available publications. The gadget then
fetches these pages (Google limits this to 10 pages) and parses the returned HTML data. Relevant
citation data is extracted in order to calculate a total number of citations per given author as well as
other statistics
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Google Chrome – missing featuresGoogle Chrome – missing features
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/
Search within a site Highlight keyword
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Google Chrome ExtensionsGoogle Chrome Extensions
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/
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Google Similar PagesGoogle Similar Pages
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/pjnfggphgdjblhfjaphkjhfpiiekbbej
Allows you to quickly preview and explore other pages that are similar to the one you are browsing --
on the fly!
When you click the Similar Pages button, your browser will send a search query to Google to see if
there are any similar pages to the page you are viewing.
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SimilarSiteSearchSimilarSiteSearch
http://www.similarsitesearch.com/
This site is mainly designed to help you find similar, related, or alternative websites
Collects and combines information about websites from many sources.
The search engine generates a list of websites based on the similarity of tags and categories.
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Google TranslateGoogle Translate
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/aapbdbdomjkkjkaonfhkkikfgjllcleb
Adds a button to your browser toolbar to click whenever you want to translate the page you're visiting.
The extension also automatically detects if the language of a page you're on is different from the
language you're using for your Google Chrome interface.
If it is, a banner appears at the top of the page.
Click Translate to have all the text on the page appear in the new language.
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RSS Subscription ExtensionRSS Subscription Extension
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/nlbjncdgjeocebhnmkbbbdekmmmcbfjd
This extension displays an icon whenever you're on a page that can be subsribed to in an RSS feed
reader.
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IE TABIE TAB
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/nlbjncdgjeocebhnmkbbbdekmmmcbfjd
Use Internet Explorer to display web pages in a Chrome tab.
Some sites can only be displayed using IE, and with this extension you can now see those sites without
leaving Chrome.
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Google dictionaryGoogle dictionary
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/mgijmajocgfcbeboacabfgobmjgjcoja
Double-click any word to view its definition in a small pop-up bubble.
View the complete definition of any word or phrase using the address bar dictionary.
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Explain and Send ScreenshotsExplain and Send Screenshots
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/mdddabjhelpilpnpgondfmehhcplpiin?hl=en-US
Capture any part of a webpage, explain it with arrows, circles, text, just like Snagit and share
or send it as a link or attachment
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ViewThru: Expand Short URLs In Google ChromeViewThru: Expand Short URLs In Google Chrome
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/jkncfnbcgbclefkbknfdbngiegdppgdd?hl=en
This extension will expand short URLs and display the full URL as a tool tip over the short URL.
Short URLs from bit.ly, cli.gs, ff.im, goo.gl, is.gd, nyti.ms, ow.ly, post.ly, su.pr and tinyurl.com are
supported.
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Personalized Search: Turning off personalizationPersonalized Search: Turning off personalization
Signed in searches
To disable history-based search customizations while signed in, you'll need to remove Web History from
your Google Account.
You can also choose to remove individual items.
Note that removing this service deletes all your old searches from Web History.
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Personalized Search: Turning off personalizationPersonalized Search: Turning off personalization
Signed out searches
If you aren't signed in to a Google Account, your search experience will be customized based on past
search information linked to a cookie on your browser.
To disable history-based customizations, follow these steps:
In the top right corner of the search results page, click Web History.
On the resulting page, click Disable customizations. (Because this preference is stored in a
cookie, it will affect anyone else who uses the same browser and computer as you).