24 Other Search Sites
We explore many of the most recently created search engines.
Class held on 11/26/2008. Student notes are available on this page. Possible questions are available on this page.
Class structure
- Go through “At beginning of class” information
- Go through highlights of some of the amazing search tools that are available.
- Work on exercises
At beginning of class
- Google — review
- Rest of the semester:
- 12/01: Metasearch engines
- 12/03: Yahoo (this will be good)
- same protocol for the visit
- 12/08: Semester summary, project unveiling
- By the time class begins, you should have made your site public. You need to keep it public at least until the beginning of next semester (early January). At that point you can do anything you want with it, though I would prefer that it be kept public.
- Each person in the class will make a 2 minute (not one second more) presentation that clarifies the following:
- The topic of your project
- The strongest and most interesting parts of his or her project wiki.
- By the end of Tuesday 12/9, I would like a short blog entry (it would be approximately one page if printed) on this class site that basically summaries this information (and covers those things that you would have liked to have covered if you had been given more time). The point of this blog entry is to make it easier for me to grade your assignment. You want to point out the good things about your site so that I don't overlook them. Point out those parts that took particular effort on your part or that you think are deserving of special attention (for some reason) on my part. This entry won't be graded per se; I will use it as a guide while grading your project.
- You still need to post blog entries that received a “10”
- Go over any other announcements you might have missed since last class.
- Check the start page for any blogs you might be interested in that you might have missed.
My notes
Alternative standard search
- SearchMe (about): visual search
- example: carbon trading
- CoolIris — the coolest browser search plugin ever
- iSeek (about): focuses on ways to refine your search quickly and easily
- example: carbon trading
- Quintura (about): visual information web
- example: [detroit lions], [carbon trading]
- SenseBot In-depth search (about): in-depth summaries of Web pages on a topic plus a tag cloud
- example: [carbon trading] (50 pages and 20 sentences) — really interesting.
- Hakia (about): quality, not just popular, search results
- example: carbon trading (health and environment are the only focus right now for “credible” sites)
- Hakia hopes to expand coverage enlisting the help of librarians
- Hakia serves credible results in new search interface
- Exalead (about): thumbnails, search expansion
- example: carbon trading
- What's up with Exalead?
- Cluuz (about): advanced results display
- example: carbon trading
- Evri (about): summary information, relationships, facts, web search, images, videos
- UBExact (video, about)
- Njouba (about): general search, also for mp3, rapidshare, book, torrent, video, image, ftp
- Scour (about): social-based search results
- Cuil (about): searches based on content and relevance, not user data or popularity
- FactBites (about): results based on content analysis instead of link popularity
- example: carbon trading
- Kosmix (about): a well-organized set of results
- example: carbon trading
- Lexxe (about): lexical analysis and clustered results
- example: carbon trading
- Search Cloud (help): use of a “cloud tag” interface to create the queries
- example: [carbon trading, environment, credits (in decreasing order)]
- Viewzi (about): multiple results views
Wikipedia search
- PowerSet (about):
- example: carbon trading
- Microsoft Powerset arrives
- Wikipedia search (Cognition)
- example: carbon trading
Social information search
- OneRiot (about): social news search
- example: economy
- tuSavvy (about): socially annotated Web data
- example: obama, carbon trading
- Social mention (about): social media search engine (blogs, comments, bookmarks, events, news, videos, microblogging)
- example: obama
- Samepoint (about): social conversation search
- Delver (about): socially connected search engine; it searches based on knowing who you are
Health search
- GoPubMed (help): search PubMed
- example: [focal nodular hyperplasia] (and check the what, who, where, when on the left side — amazing!)
- Medline (Cognition) (about, video)
- example: focal nodular hyperplasia, liver parasite
- HealthPricer (about): comparison shopping for health products (prescription drugs, contacts lenses, beauty products, etc.)
- Healia (about): health search engine, focused on support groups and communities
- example: diabetes
- iMedix (about): health community
Law
- LexisWeb (about): runs Web searches, but has option of going to LexisNexis recommended sources
- FeeFiFoe Firm (about): law firm search engine
- example: detroit "environmental law"
- Case law (Cognition)
Shopping
- PicItUp (about): visual shopping and similarity matching
- example: men watch
- Picitup, shopitup, and buyitup
- Retrevo (about): matching people and electronics
- example: canon camera
- Swotti (about): search for opinions about products of all types
- TheFind (about): shopping search
- Fresh Bargains (about): bargain finder
- example: converse chuck taylor, canon powershot sd850
Miscellaneous
- SiloBreaker (about): a news search engine; really strong
- example: carbon credits, [make "carbon credits" a keyphrase], [click on Network], [click on Trends]
- Tip of my tongue (about): find words
- Abbreviations ([* about]): find abbreviations and acronyms by category
- example: ARM
- CarZen (about): automobile search
- The best movie location search engines: this doesn't find where movies are playing — it finds where movies have been shot on location
- LoanKrunch (about): mortgage search engine
- Circos (about): restaurant and hotel search based on your personality type
- IconFinder (about): exactly what it says!
- example: stop
- Picitup Visual Search: image search
- example: carbon trading
- IconLook ([* about]): an icon search engine
- example: stop
- Top 5 Icon Search Engines
- Snooth (about): wine search
- Enormo (about): property search
Collections of search engines
- Search Engines and Directories, A to Z (about.com)
- The Top 100 alternative search engines (Sept 2008)
Articles
- Google and the Real Search for Meaning on the Web (NYT)
- Gunning for Google in Search (BW)
- A selection of social media search engines
- Hulu launches all kinds of stuff to keep you defocused on Joost
- Search company Ask.com makes some changes -- does it matter?
- Nutrition search engines
- Eeggi (what is, demos)
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