New Search tools - By Inbar Yasur - Ifish Meeting November 2012

1. Information Update
November 2012
Inbar Yasur | T +972 4 6013103 | M +972 54 9988090 | E Inbar.yasur@gmail.com | W www.Hipusit.info

2. VISUWORDS – Online graphical thesaurus
http://visuwords.com
• An online dictionary and thesaurus tool
• Shows word‟s meaning
• Associates word with others and shows visual interface
• Attach more associated nodes with the word
• Hover your mouse over each node to get its definition and meaning
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3. VISUWORDS – Online graphical thesaurus
http://visuwords.com
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4. Behind the magic words
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgNyxTHaE6YhdE03V2k3N0MxdnBTYm9abnByN1NEeWc
• My personal little project: A-Z of Thesauri
• Feel free to use and share
• Let‟s make it our little project…
• Please help to expand it
• Send suggestions to my email
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5. Google books Ngram Viewer
http://books.google.com/ngrams/
• Ngram Viewer lets you find and visualize how words and phrases
have developed and been used over time using the 30 million print
books Google has scanned working with libraries located around
the world as its dataset.
• Now in 9 languages: Italian, English, Chinese, Spanish, French,
German, Hebrew, and Russian.
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6. Google Updates
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7. Find Public Google Docs
• Useful queries that let you find public Google Drive/Docs files (you
can append some keywords to the queries):
• [site:docs.google.com/document/d] - find text document
• [site:docs.google.com/presentation/d] - find presentations
• [site:docs.google.com/drawings/d] - find drawings
• [site:docs.google.com/file/d] - find files: images, videos, PDF files,
Microsoft Office documents and more (you should click "repeat the
search with the omitted results included" since there are many files with
similar titles)
• [site:docs.google.com/folder/d] - find folders (collections of files and
other folders)
• [site:docs.google.com/open] - find other documents, folders and files
(the links redirect to other URLs)
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8. Google Scholar – Cite from Search results
http://scholar.google.com/
• Google scholar added the ability to copy-and-paste formatted
citations from search results
• To copy a formatted citation, click on the “Cite” link below a search
result and select from the available citation styles (currently MLA, APA,
or Chicago):
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9. Google Scholar – Cite from Search results
http://scholar.google.com/
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10. Google Scholar – Cite from Search results
http://scholar.google.com/
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11. Google Scholar – My Updates
http://scholar.google.com/
• If you have made a personal profile on Google Scholar, there is a
new feature: “My updates”, a list of new articles that Google‟s
algorithm determines are related to your own work
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12. The New Google Trends
http://www.google.com/trends/
• Google Trends & “Google Insights for Search” have been merged
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13. The New Google Trends
http://www.google.com/trends/
• The new Google Trends is a simplified version of Insights for
Search:
• Predictions
• Comparing locations and time ranges
• Finding the most popular queries from a region
• Restricting results to a category or a date range
• Checking results from specialized search engines:
• Image Search
• Google News
• Google Shopping
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14. The New Google Trends
http://www.google.com/trends/
• The new Google Trends is a simplified version of Insights for
Search:
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15. The New Google Trends
http://www.google.com/trends/
• Web, Images, News, Products
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16. The New Google Trends
http://www.google.com/trends/
• Keyword Comparison
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17. The New Google Trends
http://www.google.com/trends/
• Location Comparison
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18. The New Google Trends
http://www.google.com/trends/
• Time Range comparison
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19. The New Google Trends
Related Terms - Top Related Terms - Rising
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20. The New Google Trends – Casualties…
http://www.google.com/trends/
• Google Trends for Websites is no longer available
• Headlines are no longer displayed next to the chart
• You can still find them when you mouse over the chart
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21. Google Patents
www.google.com/patents
• New Coverage:
• USPTO - the United States Patent and Trademark Office
• from 1790
• EPO - European Patent Office
• from 1978
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22. Google Patents – Prior Art Finder
www.google.com/patents
• The Prior Art Finder identifies key phrases from the text of the
patent, combines them into a search query, and displays relevant
results from:
• Google Patents
• Google Scholar
• Google Books
• The rest of the web
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23. Google Sets
https://drive.google.com/#my-drive
• Google Sets is still available as a Google Sheets feature:
• Create a new spreadsheet in Google Drive,
• Type mazda in A1 and honda in A2 (the first column)
• Highlight the two cells and then press Ctrl (or Option for Mac) while
clicking and dragging the small blue box from the lower-right corner to
select additional cells where to place the Google Sets results
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24. Google Sets
https://drive.google.com/#my-drive
Google Sets is still available as a Google Sheets feature.
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25. Google Catalogs
http://www.google.com/catalogs
• Catalogs on Google Shopping includes more than 25 categories.
• Click on a specific issue to open the viewer
• peruse the pages
• zoom in to see products up close.
• Clicking „View Details‟ takes you directly to the retailer‟s site to make
the purchase
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26. Gmail – Search inside Attachments
www.gmail.com
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27. Google – Cultural Institute
http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/#!home
• New online historical exhibitions telling the stories behind major
events of the last century, including Apartheid, D-Day and the
Holocaust.
• The stories have been put together by 29 partners including
museums and cultural foundations who have drawn on their
archives of letters, manuscripts, first-hand video testimonials and
much more.
• Much of the material is on the Internet for the first time.
• Read more
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28. General Information
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29. Choose the best search for your information needs
http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/information/5locate/adviceengine.html
• I need to define my topic...
• I need to find quality results...
• I need to do research in a specific discipline...
• The timeliness of information that I need is...
• I need facts...
• I need opinions and perspectives...
• I need a specific type of media..
• I have special search requirements..
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30. Government Information
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31. Google Advanced Search
www.google.com
• Search US Government Information
• Site:.gov
• Search Non US Government information
• Site:.gov.*
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32. Country Code Extensions
http://www.quackit.com/domain-names/country_domain_extensions.cfm
• a full list of country code extensions from each country
• These extensions include the top-level domain
as well as any second and/or third level domain from
each country.
• All country domain extensions are listed alphabetically
by country.
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33. Thank you!
Inbar Yasur | T +972 4 6013103 | M +972 54 9988090 | E Inbar.yasur@gmail.com | W www.Hipusit.info