Talk given at the Online Information Conference 2013 - called Google vs. the Rest: Advanced Search Differences Between Google, Bing, Blekko and Other Search Tools. Session accompanying Phil Bradley - given on 20 November 2013.
Includes a 1 minute video of the first slide, taken by Evgeny Yushchuk (Евгений Леонидович Ющук), Professor of Urals State University of Economics
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What is Search Engine “Advanced Search”• An option to search for specific content going beyond the
standard search listings Location of keywords e.g. in titles or the URL File type for material e.g. mp3 or pdf files, or RSS feeds Keywords in particular types of material e.g. blogs, discussions,
or describing images, etc. Keywords from specified site, or geography Keywords in proximity to other words and/or wildcard searches Similar or related material Sites that link to or from a web page / domain Exclude certain types of material or key words Limit search to a set of custom sites Change relevancy e.g. date order, or weight search by a keyword,
“Yes, it's been deprecated. Why? Because too few people were using it to make it worth the time, money, and energy to maintain….” Re: Google’s Synonym search ~ operator
“…we’ve had to remove certain features, such as Instant Previews. Instant previews saw very low usage by our users....”Re: Google Instant Previews
We “weren’t seeing enough usage of this filter to maintain it in the toolbar.” Re: Google’s “Related” search filter option
Blekko “advanced search”: “We no longer require users to be familiar with our advanced search features to see the benefits of slashtag categories….”https://search.blekko.com/help
Unique search options & filters (e.g. .. Numeric search)Can search for specific material – blog posts, academic, books, patents, etc. (with separate search options & filters)
BingSearch operators such as: Contains, feed, prefer, IPBing’s Academic search offers different features to Google Scholar
BlekkoFocuses on eliminating “content farm” spamSlash commands offer search categorisation options (although now hard to find)
DuckDuckGo
Focuses on privacy & not tracking users!Bang commands allow for quick searching on multiple popular sites (e.g. “phil bradley” !amazon) Available for TOR deep/dark web searches (https://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion.to)
Baidu Best for Chinese pages. Also offers multiple other options e.g. patent search, music, mail, social…
YandexFocus on Slavic languages plus English & French. Extensive proximity options, plus filters for people, traffic, news, etc. “Yandex Islands” gives one-stop data
Gigablast Open source search engine. Sitelink: search operator finds links to a site
MillionShort Uses Bing API – eliminating top sites (based on Alexa) from search
WolframAlpha “Knowledge Engine” allowing for specialist / niche searching – with results in tabular format
Zanran Search for semi-structured tabular or graphical dataEnglish language only