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What's New - March 4, 2012
What's new? Not too much. In case you missed it, blog posts in The Internet News are being picked up in Twitter. Find the feed at websearchlady.
Regrettably, this site about web searching is seriously out of date. You might still find some good tools, but the descriptions have not been updated since January 2010. Since then, Yahoo switched to the Bing database, Bing deepened its relations to social search, Ask stopped crawling the Web, and Google has moved into the social world with Search Plus Your World, dropping along the line some key search features for web search. It is very intent on personalizing search results, and is underfire for adopting one privacy policy across all its products.
I'll be taking this site down sometime in 2012 (rescheduled from 2011) and replacing it with a smaller WordPress site consisting of the Internet News blog, and some guides to the main groups of search tools.
In the meantime, I will continue to update the sidebar on this page to feature a set of sites every month (or so).
Internet News Weblog: Notable Updates - February 15 to March 4, 2012
Selected Posts --
Search Engines: Republican trifecta and search results ranking, Resistance to Google's search personalization, Use Stealth for privacy, Private search engines, EU view on Google's Privacy Policies, Google - more personalized search,
Real Time Search / Twitter:
Search Aids & Tools: Change location for search results pages,
Search Methods: Advanced search disappearing,
Search Technology: Google and the knowledge graph, Google's link analysis, More on Google's link analysis.
Semantic Search: Sehrch - searching objects not documents.
MetaSearch:
Subject Approach:
Social Bookmarking:
Internet and Us: Canadian as very big internet users,
Scholarly and Books:
Deep Web:
Online News and RSS :
Local and Maps:
Multimedia: Google's related image search,
Social Media and Social Search: Travel services turning to social media,
People Search: Newsie will watch for news about people,
Browser: Blocking cookies, Do not track coming to Chrome,
Wikis:
Desktop:
E-Mail and IM:
Privacy: Things to know about Google's privacy policy, Google's privacy policy day 1,
Environment:
Health: Google's symptom related search results,
Other resources:
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Featured Sites
March 4, 2012
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LinkedIn has attracted 150 million professionals and hope-to-be professionals. It's ideal as a place to show your achievements, connect with colleagues from the past, and stay aware of changes in your chosen industry. Many articles have been written - and ReadWriteWeb especially covers it well. Here are a few.
10 LinkedIn Tips to Boost Your Job Search, itWorldCanada (Nov 2011) - slideshow on finding people, companies, friends, jobs and more.
6 Steps to a More Marketable LinkedIn Profile by Jeff Haden, Inc (Dec 7, 2011) - " best social media platform for entrepreneurs, business owners, and professionals. "
Five ways to use social media or other emerging technologies in your job search, SLA Future Ready 365 (May 2011) - calls Linkedin "your online “business card/elevator speech/resume on steroids”".
What To Say On LinkedIn When You've Been Laid Off, Deborah Jacobs, Forbes (Oct 11, 2011) - use it to present yourself to the recruiters.
Three Ways To Use LinkedIn If You're NOT Looking For A Job, Dave Copeland, ReadWriteWeb (Feb 9, 2012) - especially note the ability to curate news.
INFOGRAPHIC: Here's How To REALLY Use LinkedIn, Business Insider (Nov 21, 2011) - how to use Linkedin for your business and personal marketing needs.
How to Use LinkedIn as a Research Engine, QuestionPro Blog (Nov 2010) - used creatively it can help with competitive intelligence, industry research, and markets.
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