Digital Journey - Dr. Howie DiBlasi
20 Best Searching Sites     Twitter= hdiblasi

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Top 5 Search Engines

    Google  

    Yahoo! 

    Bing 

    Ask  

    AOL Search


Advanced Search-Why? - Find web pages that have...

     

All these words:

•     This exact wording

•     Phrase

•     One or more of these words

•     Don't show pages that have...

•     Any of these unwanted words

•     Reading level

•     Language

•     File type

     Search within a site or domain

http://www.google.ca/advanced_search


12 Google Search Alternatives

Wolfram-Alpha 

http://www.wolframalpha.com/

    
Computational Knowledge Engine
  world's facts and data and calculates answers across a range of topics

Spezify

   http://www.spezify.com/

Spezify aggregates search result

Including
social network

Large number of Internet data sources

KartOO

      An interesting visual meta Search Engine- Interesting results


DuckDuckGo (DDG) 

    http://duckduckgo.com/

     Partnered - Blekko, to improve search results.

     Pulls data from Wikipedia & Free Dictionalry

FactBites 

http://www.factbites.com/

   draws on webs vast amount of encyclopedias/information

Quintura 

http://quintura.com/

   redefines how search results should be displayed

Clusty (aka 'Yippy')  

  http://search.yippy.com/

 •      Deep Web engine-searches other search engines for you

Infospace  

http://www.infospace.com/

     Results from Google, Yahoo!, Bing, and real-time updates from Twitter

 •     All at the same time.


Pikadeo - Find products with your phone camera

     Pikadeo is an image-recognition tool

      Recognise products from posters, packaging, magazine pages and labels


ScanLife

- Search by barcode

     Cameraphone into a barcode scanne

http://web.scanlife.com/us_en/

 •     Barcode will take you directly to the correct product

Siri - Voice-based personal assistant 

     Mobile    http://siri.com/

    Voice activated

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