Bookmarks for Extreme Googling
Instructions: 1. Go to: bookmarks.infopeople.org
2. Click on extreme_googling_bk.htm
3. Make a bookmark of this page (Add to Favorites).
CONTENTS:
• Google Core Services • Other Search Engines & Their Shortcuts
• Google Tools and Features • Googling Help - The "Google Guide"
• Optional Interesting Reading • Second-Party Google Tools & Info Sites
• Google Family of Databases • Useful Bookmarklets for Searching
• High-Quality Subject Directories
Core Google Services
Google Basic Web Search
http://www.google.com
THE page to start from and for most web page searching.
Google Advanced Web Search
http://www.google.com/advanced_search
Useful to change language of results pages, select from a list of filetype formats, or change
content filtering for a single search. It's better to learn to use commands from Basic
Search, because Advanced Search offers fewer options.
Google Directory
http://www.google.com/dirhp
Open Directory Project's 1.5 million selected sites, enhanced by Google ranking.
Second-Party Google Tools & Info Useful with Google
GAPS – Google NEAR Search (uses Web API)
http://www.staggernation.com/cgi-bin/gaps.cgi
Can search up to three words in proximity by executing searches using Google's * as
whole-word wildcard. NOTE: If you have joined Google and have an API key, enter it
when you search in order to spare the key of the providers of this wonderful application.
Country Codes and Other TLDs List
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_TLDs
All two-letter country codes and other authorized top level domain codes (TLDs). From
useful online Wikipedia.
Pageinfo Better Than Google's: alexa.com
http://www.alexa.com/
Enter a URL in the search box. Receive traffic ranking, links to the page, related pages,
contact information, and access to page history by clicking on the link to the Wayback
Machine Internet Archive.
The Google Family of Databases
Google Groups
http://www.google.com/grphp
Usenet Newsgroups since 1981 on many topics. Advanced Groups Search allows limiting
by group, author, subject field, message ID, date, and filtering. Google Account (free)
required to participate in groups.
Google Images
http://www.google.com/imghp
Over 800 million images. Advanced Image Search allows limiting by filetype, size, colors,
site or domain; and changing filtering.
Google Local
http://local.google.com
Search web pages and yellow pages, specifying both a locality and item or topic to search
for. Results match words and offer helpful subdivisions within results. Can limit to 1, 5,
15, 45 mile radius.
Google Maps
http://maps.google.com
Drag to map area, search for cities or zip codes, view satellite image, get local information
about businesses and services, find driving directions.
Google News
http://news.google.com
4,500 news sources, covering last 30-days. Advanced News Search allows limiting by
source, location, headlines, body, URL, and date.
Google Shopping:
Froogle
http://www.google.com/froogle
Froogle offers thousands of merchant-supplied catalogs and web pages, mostly keyed to
websites. Froogle Advanced Search allows limiting by price range, category, where words
occur in entries, and filtering; also change display by store and layout.
Google Catalogs
http://catalogs.google.com
Catalogs offers scanned, searchable text with images from other merchant-supplied mail-
order catalogs. Catalogs Advanced Search allows limiting by category, current or all
catalogs, and filtering
Google Scholar
http://scholar.google.com
Scholarly articles and some scholarly books that are on the web. Some full text, some as
links to citations found in lists of works cited on the web. Advanced Scholar Search allows
limiting by author, publication name, or date.
Google Print
http://print.google.com
Scanned, often searchable full text of books and some articles. Use Google basic web
search box (google.com) and include in your search the word "books" or limit to
site:print.google.com
Google Tools and Features
Google Toolbar Download
http://toolbar.google.com/
For browsers other than IE and for Macs: http://googlebar.mozdev.org
Google Preferences
http://www.google.com/preferences
Google Filetypes
http://www.google.com/help/faq_filetypes.html
Google Language Tools (including Translation)
http://www.google.com/language_tools
Google Features (Shortcuts) Described
http://www.google.com/help/features.html
Google University Searches
http://www.google.com/options/universities.html
Limits searches to university's site. List of universities provided.
Google Labs
http://labs.google.com/
Upcoming and emerging Google technologies.
Googling Help - Further Explanation of Google's Features
Google Guide by Nancy Blachman
http://www.googleguide.com
Very well written, fairly comprehensive online guide to many of the features of Google,
with exercises and answers. Written by a Google fan, who is also a mathematician, the
Guide sometimes errs in favor of overlooking some of the frustrating and puzzling aspects
of Google. Very useful to teach others the basics of Google and Google's family of
databases and features. Use online through the CLICK TO BEGIN button, and choose a
novice or experienced user level. Also available in printable PDF for a small fee.
Other Search Engines and Their Shortcuts
Yahoo! Search - http://search.yahoo.com/
Yahoo! Shortcuts List - http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts
Yahoo! Education and Reference Collections - http://education.yahoo.com/
Teoma Search - http://teoma.com/
Ask Jeeves Smart Search Tools -
http://static.wc.ask.com/docs/announcements/searchsmarter.html
High-Quality Subject Directories - When Search Engines Aren't Enough
Librarians' Index to the Internet - LII.ORG
Internet Public Library Pathfinders - http://www.ipl.org/div/pf/
Academic Info - http://www.academicinfo.net
Infomine - http://infomine.ucr.edu/
Useful Bookmarklets for Searching
"Bookmarklets for Searching" article
http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/bmlets/
Greg Notess's collection of bookmarklets that may be useful in searching. From
SearchEngineShowdown. Offers bookmarklets for transferring the same search terms to
another search engine. For instance, you've tried Google and you wonder how the same
search terms would work in another search engine.
NOTE: To use these or any other bookmarklets, drag them into your bookmarks, personal
toolbar, links bar, or equivalent in your browser:
Bookmarklets for searching your library catalog
http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/stories/2002/12/11/librarylookup.html
Jon Udell's Bookmarklets to check, for many OPACs worldwide, if a book is in a library,
once you know its ISBN (for instance, you are working from Amazon.com or another
database with ISBNs).
Optional Interesting Reading about Searching and Googling
GMail: Google Storms the Webmail Market
http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/jul04/wiggins.shtml
Thorough, objective review of value and downsides of Google's email service.
Searcher, vol. 12, no. 7, July-August 2004.
"The Nature of Meaning in the Age of Google"
http://informationr.net/ir/9-3/paper180.html
For anyone interested in the big picture of Google's impact on "meaning," a think piece on
the effect of Google's success on indexing, web authoring, research, and other heavy topics.
Information Research, vol. 9, no. 3, April 2004
"Coming Soon: The Death of Search Engines"
http://www.llrx.com/features/deathsearchengine.htm
A think piece by Canadian search expert Rita Vine on trends and what search engines are
not succeeding at
Google Satire: FLASH humor from UK
. http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~pcxee/google_flash.htm
