2179 Articles match "Search"

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• Social search, Help engines, and Sense-making
  
  Social search is resurfacing as a hot topic of late , due to how effective Twitter has become in helping you find information, and how it is close to how we source information in the offline world (via our network). From a particular perspective, the search experience is broken into three aspects: searching the web, searching within a website, and searching Twitter is being differentiated by being called a “ Help Engine “. I think it’s getting us closer to the KM productivity (sense-making) aim that knowledge sharing and knowledge transfer
  Library clips - Wednesday, April 1, 2009
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• Kosmix Delivers "Haystack" Searches
  
  Kosmix, a technically-in-alpha search engine, doesn't focus on driving you straight to the most accurate results for a search term. In other words (specifically their mission statement ) Kosmix aims to help users whose goal is "not so much to find a specific needle as to explore the entire haystack." Results pages include Wikipedia links, blog posts, reviews, Flickr and other image databases, and many more links.
  Linked Intelligence - Monday, October 13, 2008
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• Search
  
  This post likely will be quite a bit different because I'm convinced that most people have used different search tools enough that they are pretty comfortable with their current search behaviors. My intent here is to possibly expand the options for the average knowledge worker to be able to search a bit better than they do today. Yes, I personally use Google 95%+ This is likely my last post in the Tool Set series. This is by no means comprehensive and I welcome suggestions. Other Than Google My first recommendation is not to always default to Google.
  elearning Technology - Monday, February 2, 2009
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• SemantiFind Clarifies What You're Searching For
  
  Firefox only: Newly-launched search tool SemantiFind is out to deliver more meaningful results by helping you clarify your query, and putting user-assigned labels for pages across the web to good use. button, and go to google.com and type your search terms. Like Google Suggest, SemantiFind will drop down a list of possible searches that clarify your search (as pictured, in a Download the SemantiFind Firefox extension, click the "Start Semantifying!" On the results page, SemantiFind embeds its suggestions on top of your regular Google results, based on user labels on
  Linked Intelligence - Wednesday, September 17, 2008
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• An info pro's Web 2.0 tool kit
  
  what else would you use for search (not professional development or other non-research tasks)? a good blog-search tool like Technorati.com a familiarity with Google News Timelines and Google Search Timelines a couple of discussion forum search tools, such as Board Tracker and A colleague emailed me the other day to ask me what Web 2.0 tools and resources are critical for research.
  Library clips - Monday, August 25, 2008
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• iSearch a Better Way to Find People Online
  
  New addition to the people search engine scene iSearch is a powerful tool for hunting down anyone online that offers better results than plain old Google in some cases. Search by name and location, screen name, phone number, school or company, and iSearch returns results from social networks as well as regular old web pages. My test searches for my co-bloggers were very detailed, and displayed many personal As with most people search engines, folks who don't have as much of an online presence don't show up as much (or just have multiple results from the same old company or school web page).
  Linked Intelligence - Thursday, September 11, 2008
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• The New Value in the Web - the Archive - A New Approach to Search is Needed
  
  You have to know what you are searching for and it does not easily let you follow a thread of similar thoughts or to find others in the field who can add more. If this blog or even my own personal blog had a search tool that could enable you to find the many “Books” in them it would change the value of the site. The archive is largely hidden because you have to know what to search for and because it is If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it fall - does it make a noise? If you have a site with a huge archive and people cant find what is in
  The FASTForward Blog - Monday, February 23, 2009
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• Web Work 101: Search Engine Optimization Basics
  
  For any web worker with a blog, web site or online portfolio, knowing how to optimize it for search engines is a must. By using some simple Search Engine Optimizations (SEO) techniques on your web site, you can increase the chances that your target visitors will find it through Yahoo, Google and other search engines. According to the SEOmoz dictionary , SEO is “the process of increasing the number of visitors to a web site by achieving high After all, what’s the point of having an online presence if no one can find it? In this post, I’ll discuss some basic
  Web Worker Daily - Tuesday, August 25, 2009
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• Twitter as Search Engine or Community Seed
  
  Twitter as a search engine. But I never really conceptualized it as search.   First, I searched for something for me. But you have to have a question in mind to make the search meaningful beyond curiosity. But chocolate is a wide ranging topic so using Twitter to search and listen would give you many results The folks over at BrandonHall, the learning folks who blog lots of interesting links, pointed out a value of Twitter that not all of us may have seen yet. This was interesting to me because I’m co-leading a short online workshop introducing social
  Nancy White's Full Circle Blog - Friday, March 6, 2009
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• Your Guide to Job Search and Personal Branding on Twitter
  
  Twitter for Job Search-- The nitty gritty of job searching on Twitter. People and Sites to Follow 50 Twitter Users to Follow for Your Job Search The Job Search "Twibe" (Twitter users interested in job search) Twitter --the 140 character social networking networking site--is becoming increasingly useful for job seekers.
  The Bamboo Project Blog - Saturday, May 16, 2009
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