search party - internet & social media search tricks that will improve the way you work

Copyright Marian Madonia, CSP 2016

Search Party

Internet search tricks that will improve the way you work

By Marian Madonia, CSPOctober 21, 2016


Search Teams

• Google• Yahoo• Bing• LinkedIn• DuckDuckGo• Quora• YouTube• Vimeo• Mywebsearch

• DogPile• Ask (formerly

AskJeeves)• SlideShare• Webcrawler• Wow• Aol Search• Info• Infospace


That’s Boolean


String of Words

• Frozen Custard Fredericksburg Virginia

• Norwegian Church Black Hills

• Juke Box Hero


Quotes

• “Nissan Altima”

• “Pasta Sauce”

• “I want to know what love is”


AND

• Coffee AND Oatmeal

• Boxer AND Rescue

• Starrider AND Headknocker


OR

• (Missouri OR Kansas)

• (“St Louis” OR “Saint Louis”)

• (Lou OR Lew)

• (Note: The Key is the Parenthesis)


NOT

• Trainer NOT Fitness – Trainer -Fitness

• Grocery NOT Kroger– Grocery -Kroger

• Foreigner NOT Travel– Foreigner -Travel


* (Asterisk)

• Manage*

• Admin*

• Hot Blood*– Blue * Blue *


AROUND or NEAR

• August AROUND Daisy

• Stanley NEAR Schanbacher

• “Mick Jones” NEAR Foreigner


Specific Site Search

• site:craigslist.org red+nissan+altima

• Migraine -site:webmd.org

• site:foreigneronline.com merch


Better searches with Numbers

• Billboard Hits ..1977


Combination

• “Nissan Altima” Coupe

• “Ed Primeau” Video

• “Head Games” Foreigner


Cache it in

• cache:http://example.com– For the last page on file that was indexed– Great for pages that were deleted


Names with Multiple Meanings

• Ex…Rose, Mark, Paris, Bob, Charity, Frank, Lily, Wade, Carol, Jack, Regina, Jay, Robin, Nick, Joy, John, Pam, Rich, Bill, January, April, May, June, August…

• Use “&imgtype=face” to find the image of a person (and thus the link to the site with the picture)


Proxy’s for Block/Paid Sites

• Google Translate– http://translate.google.com/translate?

sl=ja&tl=en&u=http://example.com/• Google Modules– http://www.gmodules.com/ig/proxy?url=http://

example.com/


Fun

• Top• Best• Worst• Better than _____• _____ vs (let autofill make suggestions)


Odds & Ends

• link:example.com• related:example.com• Weather *zip code*• Time *place*• Phonebook: ___-___-____• *artist* rider filetype:pdf• @_____• #_____• Jeff Pilson bacon number


Social Networking

1. Facebook2. LinkedIn3. Google+4. Twitter5. Yahoo6. YouTube7. Vimeo8. Instagram9. Skype10. Pinterest11. flickr12. Snapchat13. Tumblr

14. Wordpress15. Medium16. Reddit17. Delicious18. StumbleUpon19. Digg20. Meetup21. Ask.fm22. Classmates23. WhatsApp24. Viber25. Quora26. Periscope27. BizSugar


Search Multiple Social Media Sites

• SocialMention.com

• YoName.com

• Snitch.name

• Social-Searcher.com

• Google (Ex. site:facebook.com inurl:Marian Madonia)


Follow Marian on Social Media

• Facebook – MariansFans• LinkedIn – Marian Madonia• Pinterest – Marian Madonia• Instagram – MarianMadonia• Twitter – MarianMadonia• Google+ - Marian Madonia• YouTube – Marian Madonia• Web – MarianMadonia.com• SlideShare – Marian Madonia