Plan

Possible topics

1. Introduction day
2. Web Search
   • A short and easy search engine tutorial (new)
   • The browser search war winners (new)
   • Search without the search engine (new)
   • Flash is no longer the search engine pit of death (new)
   • Life of an article on the Web (new)
   • Study: Web search makes you smarter (new)
   • Web search strategies in plain english (video) (new)
   • Seven Habits of Highly Effective Web Searchers (about.com)
   • Top Ten Web Search Tricks (about.com)
   • How to effectively use a search engine (about.com)
   • Google Cheat Sheet (about.com)
   • Search Engine Cheat Sheets (about.com)
   • About Web Search Tools (about.com) — overview page
   • Search Engines by Search Feature (Notess)
   • Search switching
     • Search switching page
     • Switching your search engine
     • Speed search
     • Switching search engines
       • TurboScout
       • IntelWays
       • Zuula
   • Introduction to Web search (BIT330 f07)
   • On Recall, Precision, and Relevance
3. Wiki instruction day (Student wikis)
4. Web Search Techniques 1
   • Web search principles 1 (BIT330 f07)
5. Web Search Techniques 2
   • Web search principles 2 (BIT330 f07)
   • Web search principles 3 (BIT330 f07)
6. Web directories
   • Search directories (about.com)
   • Yahoo Directory
   • Mahalo: “Mahalo is a human-powered search engine that creates organized, comprehensive, and spam free search results for the most popular search terms. Our search results only include great links.”
   • Web Subject Directories (Notess)
   • AllTop — a different type of directory
   • Discussion of DMOZ
7. RSS introduction
   • RSS in plain english (video) (new)
   • Google Blogs and other front pages for the blogosphere (new)
   • Introduction to RSS (about.com)
   • RSS basics (BIT330 f07)
   • Iterend
     • Iterend, a search engine for fast changing information
8. RSS lab
   • BIT330 (f07)
   • Project day
9. Blog & RSS search
   • Making a blogroll
   • Working with a blog reader
   • Searchable subject indices of RSS feeds
   • RSS feeds (about.com)
   • RSS search blogs from class
   • Blog search stuck in beta (new)
10. News search & personal newspapers
    • News search
      • Silobreaker: News search with thorough aggregation (new)
      • Google News
        • How to search Google News Search more efficiently
        • Google News source filtering
        • Google News tests new design
      • Google News Archive Search
      • Google Alerts
      • LexisNexis News
      • Yahoo News
      • AltaVista News
      • World Press
      • NewsVoyager (local newspaper search)
      • Jamesoo
        • Innovative news search with Jamesoo
      • Newspaper Archive
      • A few news items from BIT330 f07
    • Personal newspapers
      • A few personal newspaper sites from BIT330 f07
    • Print newspapers
      • Can Newspapers Be Saved? Part 1, Part 2
      • Bringing history online one newspaper at a time
        • Google launches newspaper digitization project
        • Google to digitize newspaper archives
        • Google makes old newspapers sesarchable and readable too
11. The Deep Web
    • WorldCat: find items in libraries near you (review) (new)
    • refseek:"a web search engine for students and researchers. RefSeek aims to make academic information easily accessible to everyone. RefSeek searches more than one billion documents, including web pages, books, encyclopedias, journals, and newspapers." (review)
    • Academic research tools
    • How to use Google to find Research Paper material (about.com)
    • OIAster
    • The Deep Web (about.com)
    • The Deep Web (BIT330 f07)
    • Google Still Not Indexing Hidden Web URLs
    • Sometimes Google isn't enough when researching the deep web
    • DeepDyve (review)
12. Project day
13. Page Monitors & Special Tools
    • Page monitors and Page monitor lab (BIT330 f07)
    • Dapper
    • Feed43
    • 6 ways to filter your RSS feeds
    • Yahoo Pipes
      • Aggregated News Feeds
14. Email alerts
    • Email alerts (BIT330 f07)
    • Google confirms RSS for web search results
    • Google adds RSS feeds for Web search results
15. Tag-based sites
    • Top Ten Social Bookmarking Sites (about.com)
    • Most Popular Websites (about.com)
    • Delizzy (delicious search site)
    • Search a Web site with tags (about.com)
    • Tagging (BIT330 f07)
    • Digg
      • Traffic trends for Digg vs. nine other social news sites
      • Blind Diggers Wall of Shame
      • Expanding and growing Digg
    • A reader writes in ``take a look at Synopse'' (new)
16. Image search
    • 3 great ways to search flickr
    • Thirty Free Image Resources on the Web (about.com)
    • Image search engines (about.com)
    • Tineye: Image search
    • Exalead improves image search with intuitive user interface
    • Google Photo Search
    • How to search images online -- Most advanced methods
    • Internet for image search
    • Pixolu: semantic image search
    • Compfight: a flickr search tool
    • Where can you find good images? (Presentation Zen)
17. Custom search engines
    • Five Ways to Make your Own Search Engine (about.com)
    • Build your own search engine with BuildASearch
    • Rollyo
    • Yahoo Debuts "Build your own search service" (BW)
    • YubNub
    • Three guides to FireFox quick searches (smart keywords)
    • Google Custom Search Engines
18. Searching for links to sites
    • Watching those who are watching you (BIT330 f07)
19. Test
20. Geography based
    • International search engines (about.com)
    • Find a Google Map on the Web (about.com)
    • Ten Ways to Find a Map on the Web (about.com)
    • Some local info from BIT330 f07
    • BooRah (restaurant search)
      • BooRah review
    • Pictures on Google Maps
    • AOL Unveils MapQuest Local, Video Search For Mobile (WAP)
    • Ixigo — India travel
      • Travel search engine ixigo to offer bus deals
    • Google Adds Location To Mobile Web Search
    • I'm off to NYC and TripBase has news
    • Travel search engine Tripwolf -- hungry for travel
    • AOL launches local search engine When.com
21. People search
    • Ten Ways you can find Phone Numbers on the Web (about.com)
    • Top Ten Ways to do a free people search on the Web (about.com)
    • Fifteen People Search Engines (about.com)
    • How to find someone online (about.com)
    • 4 people search engines: Looking for someone online
    • iSearch
      • Just the FAQ on People Search Engine iSearch
    • 123people searches the social web
      • 3-2-1 123people search launches off
    • Facesaerch: search for people's faces
    • Namepedia (review): the name database
    • Yasni (review): people search
    • Google, Yahoo, Ask, Cluuz
22. Video & music search
    • Top Ten Most Popular Video Sites (about.com)
    • Clipoid
    • Searching for multimedia and Multimedia search exercises (BIT330 f07)
    • Everyzing
      • Alt Search Engine EveryZing Aids New Orleans
      • Search engine Everyzing's new metaplayer
    • Videosurf
      • VideoSurf: New, Genuinely Radical Video Search
      • VideoSurf is now live
    • Mefeedia
      • Mefeedia search on the discovery engine
    • More advanced search options for YouTube
    • Google groups video results
    • Listen to music online with last.fm
    • Music search resources at about.com
    • Take a look at the HD search engine Vuze
    • MGM to Post Full Films on YouTube, as Site Faces New Competition From Hulu
23. Google
24. Other search sites
    • SearchMe
    • PowerSet
      • Microsoft Powerset arrives
    • Hakia
      • Hakia hopes to expand coverage enlisting the help of librarians
      • Hakia serves credible results in new search interface
    • Exalead
      • What's up with Exalead?
    • Cluuz
    • LexisWeb: A new legal search engine
    • Search for that word you forgot. Help Chir.ag
    • That was quick! CarZen drives out of stealth: car search engine
      • Stealth report: Auto search engine CarZen
    • Evri
      • Hear ye hear ye!: Evri moves into open beta
    • UBExact
      • UBExact (review)
      • Search Engine ubExact announces beta launch
    • Njouba
      • Njouba: All you need under one roof and more
    • 50 Matches
      • Social powered search from 50 Matches
    • Me.dium (social search)
    • Top 5 Icon Search Engines
    • Picitup, shopitup, and buyitup
    • Nutrition search engines
      • Good for you: Nutrition search engines
      • Findica and the hybrid nutrition search engine
    • Top Ten Niche Search Engines (about.com)
    • Fee Fie Foe Firm — a law firm search site
    • Google and the Real Search for Meaning on the Web (NYT)
    • Search Engines and Directories, A to Z (about.com)
    • The Best Search Engines on the Web (about.com)
    • The Top 100 alternative search engines (Sept 2008)
    • The best movie location search engines
    • LoanKrunch — mortgage search engine
      • Introducing mortgage search engine LoanKrunch
    • Gunning for Google in Search (BW)
    • Samepoint
      • Search millions of conversations with Samepoint
    • Circos
      • Will it go ’round in Circos? Search by personality!
    • Scour
      • Scour -- As human as search can get
      • Search engine Scour increases search speed
    • Cuil
      • Cuil: Another Google Challenger Launches -- To a Cool Reception
      • ‘cuil’ might be the Next Microsoft Acquisition…!
    • Hulu launches all kinds of stuff to keep you defocused on Joost
    • Search company Ask.com makes some changes -- does it matter?
    • Property search engine Properazzi Enormo-us
    • A selection of social media search engines
25. Metasearch engines
    • Introduction to Metasearch Engines (about.com)
    • Soovle
    • FastEagle
    • Kedrix
    • 3 tools to unite multiple search engines
    • Joongel
      • Search the Internet the easy way -- with Joongel
    • ShoppingVale
    • Twerq (help, about)
    • Zuula
    • IntelWays
    • LeapFish
      • So, will you make the leap to LeapFish?
    • Kedrix Mearch
      • Kedrix, the Mearch engine
26. Yahoo
27. Last Day