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Information UpdateAlternative Search Engines
May 2011
Inbar Yasur www.hipusit.info
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What I will cover:
• Specialized search engines
• People search
• Social media search
• File type search engines
• RSS search engines
• Other search engines
• Search Internet archives
• A look at history
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Introduction
Search engines find their niche and work to be the best Search engine in that niche they
can be.
Look around and you will see smaller Search Engines gathering information that just may
be more valuable to you because it is more focused on what you are looking for.
Google alternatives can help your business find more answers.
Using Google alternatives along with Google will help you race to the front of the pack.
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Specialized search engines
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Trademark Search – Why?
• Find who is the company behind a product
• Find patents
• Check whether a potential word is free for you to use as a trademark
• Check infringements of your registered trademarks
.Trademark Search
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Find who is the company behind a product
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Trademark Search
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Markify – Trademark Search “fast, easy and free”http://www.markify.com/
Markify is a free name-screening tool. It identifies other registered trademarks
that are similar in sound or spelling to your chosen name.
Search in two of the world's largest trademark databases:
• US (USPTO database)
• Europe (CTM database).
Also sends Watch name email Alert
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Trademark Search
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The Israeli Trademark Database www.trademarks.justice.gov.il
Search By
• Owners
• Search By Figurative Elements • Class of Goods
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Trademark Search
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Moat: Search Engine for Advertisements http://www.moat.com/
• Search engine for ads.
• Lets you search current online ads for any brand.
• Get information like ad size and the website it last ran on.
• Share any ad through a permanent URL.
• No registration required.
Advertisements
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UK TV avadvertshttp://www.uktvadverts.com/home/Search.aspx?recent=2
• Search by Subject / Company name.
• Detailed information:
• Company name
• Advert
• Artist
• Music
• Link to YouTube
Advertisements
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Advertisements search resources
• Ad*Access:."An image database of over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and
Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Covering five categories -
Beauty and Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation, and World War II
• Ad council : America Public Service advertisement Since 1942 – Dealing with critical
social issues
• Vintage Ad Browser. "This site aims to collect vintage ads from a variety of sources,
including comic books, CD-Roms, websites, book, magazine & comic book scans, and
more.
Advertisements
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Advertisements search resources
• Advertising Archives Limited. "The largest collection of its kind in the world, and a
unique reference source of every product that has been advertised in the last 150
years!“ The ad items included are: Press Ads, Magazine Covers, Movie Posters,
Comics, and cigarette cards.
• Gaslight Advertising Archives. A fee-based service advertisements as far back as
1880's.
Advertisements
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People Search
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Peepmail - Find People’s Business Email Addresses Onlinehttp://samy.pl/peepmail/elift.cgi
Peepmail is a free to use web service that looks for someone’s company email
address. All you have to do is type in the name of the person and their company
or the company’s website URL. The site then searches the company’s domain
name and looks for your required address .
While the tool does not work with all domain names, it is still worth a try before
launching a manual email searching mission.
People Search
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Peepmail - Find People’s Business Email Addresses Onlinehttp://samy.pl/peepmail/elift.cgi
People Search
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Folowen: Quick Social Profile Searchhttp://folowen.com/search
Folowen is a social profile search engine that aggregates the social media profiles
of a person from 20 different social sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter… etc
and presents the results on one single page. You can easily click through the
links and follow the person.
People Search
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Folowen: Quick Social Profile Searchhttp://folowen.com/search
People Search
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Identify – Firefox extensionhttps://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/identify/
Identify is a Firefox extension that makes it easy to view information about anyone
online. It aggregates person’s profile information from various social networks
and media sites and puts it all in one window.
People Search
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Waatp: People Search Enginehttp://waatp.com/
A real time search engine to find people using their first and last name.
People Search
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Waatp: People Search Enginehttp://waatp.com/
People Search
Example: Nina Garfinkle
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D&B Israel -Directors in Israelhttp://directors.dundb.co.il/
People Search
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D&B Israel -Directors in Israelhttp://directors.dundb.co.il/
People Search
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Social Media Search
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Socialmentionhttp://socialmention.com/
Social Mention is a social media search and analysis platform that aggregates
user generated content from across the universe into a single stream of
information.
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Social media search
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Socialmentionhttp://socialmention.com/
• Allows you to easily track and measure what people are saying about you, your
company, a new product, or any topic across the web's social media landscape in real-time.
• Monitors 100+ social media properties directly including: Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed,
YouTube, Digg, Google etc.
• Currently provides a point-in-time social media search and analysis service, daily social
media alerts, and API.
. Social media search
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File type search engines
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Findthatfilehttp://www.findthatfile.com/
• Comprehensive online file search engine
• Search for file on the web, on Usenet, FTP, eMule etc
• Search for file types like audio, video, bit torrent, documents and more
• Data sourced from over 167 file upload services.
File type search engines
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SlideFinderhttp://www.slidefinder.net/
• Search for slides
• Simple keyword search
• Advanced search that allows to search by both presentation detail or by slide
• Download presentations from their source
• Save previous searches
File type search engines
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SlideSharehttp://www.slideshare.net
SlideShare is the best way to share presentations, documents and professional
videos
File type search engines
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RSS Search Engine
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ctrlQ.orghttp://ctrlq.org/
RSS search engine :
a fully-functional web site that makes subscription to feeds extremely easy
and quick.
RSS search engines
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ctrlQ.orghttp://ctrlq.org/
There is an option of “Show Feed”, clicking which, will show the feeds on that
topic by the web site.
RSS search engines
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Ofeliowww.ofelio.com
Ofelio is a search engine that searches for topics across all kinds of RSS feeds.
That means that unlike other search engines which crawl a webpage to find
potential content, Ofelio will go through the RSS feed of that page to track topics.
RSS search engines
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Full Text Articles
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Full Text Articles
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Google One Passhttp://www.google.com/landing/onepass/
Google One Pass is a payment system that enables publishers to set the terms for access to
their digital content.
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Other alternative search engines
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Microsoft Academic Searchhttp://academic.research.microsoft.com/
Microsoft Research is dedicated to conducting both basic and applied research,
in chemistry, computer science, engineering, mathematics and physics
It has advanced search options that actually work, it can list citations and has a
wonderful Visual Explorer.
Other search engines
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Microsoft Academic Searchhttp://academic.research.microsoft.com/
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Other search engines
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Microsoft Academic Searchhttp://academic.research.microsoft.com/
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Other search engines
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Microsoft Academic Searchhttp://academic.research.microsoft.com/
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Other search engines
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Microsoft Academic Searchhttp://academic.research.microsoft.com/
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Other search engines
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ERIChttp://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/basic.jsp
ERIC - the Education Resources Information Center - is an online digital library
of education research and information. ERIC is sponsored by the Institute of
Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education.
New! Create Customized RSS Feeds With ERIC Database
Other search engines
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LISEvents: A Database of Library Conferences and Eventshttp://lisevents.com/
• Search or Browse Events By:• Country, State, Date • Locate Online Only Events
• For Conference Planners: Find A Speaker• By Location• Speaker Expertise• Speaker Profiles Recently Added to the Database
• For Speakers:• Register As a Conference Speaker
• For Conference Organizers• Add Your Event to the Database
Other search engines
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Search archives
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Internet Archive – New Interfacehttp://waybackmachine.org/
Offers more than 150 billion archived web pages with some material dating back to 1996.
Search Internet archives
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Internet Archive – New Interfacehttp://waybackmachine.org/
Search Internet archives
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Internet Archivehttp://waybackmachine.org/
Search Internet archives
http://web.archive.org/web/20020802195554/www.imahima.com/index.jsp
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Archive-Ithttp://www.archive-it.org/
Archive-It, a subscription service from the Internet Archive, allows institutions to
harvest and preserve collections of digital content and create Digital Archives.
Through a user-friendly web interface, Archive-It partners can catalog, manage,
and browse their archived collections. Collections are hosted at the Internet
Archive data center and are accessible to the public with full-text search
Search Internet archives
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Archive-It Case Studyhttp://msl.mt.gov/For_State_Employees/Archive_Montana/default.asp
Montana State Library Adopts the Internet Archive As Its Institutional Repository
Search Internet archives
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Archive-It Case Studyhttp://msl.mt.gov/For_State_Employees/Archive_Montana/default.asp
Montana State Library Adopts the Internet Archive As Its Institutional Repository
Search Internet archives
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Blog Foreverhttp://blogforever.eu/
• The EU project BlogForever aims to provide preservation technology in order to enable institutions
and citizens to preserve content for future generations.
• BlogForever is a collaborative EU funded project which is going to develop robust digital
preservation,
management and dissemination facilities for blogs.
• BlogForever will create a software platform capable of aggregating, preserving, managing and
disseminating blogs.
• Any user or organization will be able to use the BlogForever software & guidelines to create a digital
repository containing their own selection of blogs.
Search Internet archives
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A look at history
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Travel Back in Timehttp://www.travelfilmarchive.com/
Travel back in time and around the world with The Travel Film Archive. The Travel Film Archive is a
collection of travelogues and educational and industrial films that show the world the way it was
between 1900 and 1970.
A look at history
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CriticalPast: Watch Historic Video Clips Onlinehttp://www.criticalpast.com/
CriticalPast is an interesting site that has a collection of more than 57,000 historic video clips and 7
million photos that are royalty-free, available to watch for free online and can be downloaded at an
affordable price. You’ll find video clips of the first steam engine, World War II, the Vietnam War and
many more.
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A look at history
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What was therehttp://www.whatwasthere.com/
• User friendly web service.
• Helps see how places looked like in the past.
• Lets you browse places via a map.
• Lets people upload old photographs of sites in a city.
• Covers numerous cities.
A look at history
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Historypinhttp://www.historypin.com/
A look at history
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What was there
A look at history
Thank you!
