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What's New - December 15, 2011
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Regrettably, this site about web searching is seriously out of date.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 been under fire from all sides - and has dropped several search features (realtime search with twitter, wonderwheel, timeline and more). 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 - December 1 to 15
Selected Posts --
Search Engines: Google - another interface change, Google's recent updates to search, Google and the long tail - infographic,
Real Time Search / Twitter:
Search Aids & Tools: Tools for retracing your work on the web,
Search Methods: Finding content licensed for re-use, Searchers assess the domain,
Search Technology: Google search as a form of AI, Decline of the organic link,
Semantic Search:
MetaSearch:
Subject Approach:
Social Bookmarking: Novel use of the Google+ page, The new Stumbleupon,
Internet and Us: Archiving the web, Internet users just want to have fun,
Scholarly and Books:
Deep Web: StatsCan data to be free,
Online News and RSS : Business news studies,
Local and Maps: Google Maps in Europe, Searching for local,
Multimedia:
Social Media and Social Search:
People Search:
Browser: Chrome surpasses Firefox, Cheatsheets for browsers, Sign into Chrome,
Wikis:
Desktop: Evernote's amazing apps, More about Evernote,
E-Mail and IM: Survey of webmail services,
Privacy:
Environment:
Health:
Other resources:
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December 15, 2011
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Find Files on the Net |
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There are a few services that will find files that are out of the reach of conventional search engines. They require different handling, different kinds of questions, and more mental twisting and turning in thinking how you can make these work for you.
FindFiles.net has links to nearly 760 million files - documents, audio, images, ebooks - anything that it is a file. It could find for you what Google couldn't. The FAQ has some examples to get you started.
FindThatFile is similar. Its index has 300 million files. It examines each file to identify author, title, contents, text extracts and more, and looks for these on the web, ftp servers, Torrent, radio and tv, and even the old usenet.
There are other file search engines take you into file hosting services such as Uploading, Rapidshare and Megaupload. These contain millions of files shared by people. They might have what you seek. But tread carefully - these will also take you to the darkside of the Internet.
General-Search reached 500 million files in November 2011. It also added some extra checks o validity of files.
SimilarSiteSearch will help you find other find-file services that draw from various file hosting sites.
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