CiL session summary — Super Searcher Shares: Search Tips Spectacular
Presented by Mary Ellen Bates of Bates Information Services at BatesInfo.com
1. Newsy.com:
The Week meets YouTube. Human editors summarize the news. One-sentence summary.
2. Google Buzz:
Access via Gmail. Has Google stars. Rudimentary search. No date sort of results. Includes other social media sources.
3. Buzzzy.com:
Searches Google Buss plus other social media. Results are chronological. Limit by language.
4. Factery.net:
Searches Yahoo Boss and Twitter. Ranks by FactRank and includes tweeted urls. SERP has facts, not extracts.
5. Technorati:
Authority search is GREAT! Search by blog title or post. Shows hottest posts in various channels.
6. SlideFinder.net:
Search tool for searching slide decks. Crawls through content in PPT pages. Search for words in the notes. Add-in lets you search while in PowerPoint.
7. World Govt Data:
Compiled by The Guardian. Focus on gov data sources US, UK, Australia, NZ. Downloadable data sets.
8. Factual.com:
Like Wolfram|Alpha, but as a wiki. Now primarily Wikipedia content.
9. Twitter lists
Create and publish an RSS on your faves. Can see whose list a user is on. Like a “super follow”.
10. Listorious.com:
Spiders public Twitter lists. Find lists on a topic. ID experts.
Slide deck at Batesinfo.com/extras
