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Steve Gall

instaGrok | A new way to learn - 35 views

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    A worthy successor to google's wonder wheel? http://t.co/xuLd2DnZ #tlchat #austl #searchengine
AnnMarie Furbur

Goofram - Search Google and Wolfram Alpha at the same time! - 5 views

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    search Google and wolfram alpha at the same time
Stacy Olson

Boolify Project: An Educational Boolean Web Search Tool - 127 views

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    A search tool that helps students see how change their search terms changes their results.
Carol Mortensen

DuckDuckGo - 151 views

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    Clean, less adds search engine and I got better results than in Google! Try it!
Glenda Baker

Experiment Google Custom Search Engine | The Groovy Librarian - Teaching in the 21st Century - 107 views

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    Create custom search engines for classes
Richard Fanning

100 Useful Niche Search Engines to Focus and Finetune Your Academic Research | College@Home - 100 views

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    "Though the general Google site is often touted as the number one search engines online, college students sometimes need more specific tools to help them uncover quality information on the Web that they can use for class projects, research papers, and even job and apartment searches. This list features a huge variety of search engines that can be useful to students, including tools that find photos, sound effects, summer internships, health and medical information, reference guides, and a lot more."
anonymous

Comprehensive list of Search Engines - The Search Engine List - 132 views

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    A comprehesive list of search engines
Roland Gesthuizen

Incompetent Research Skills Curb Users' Problem Solving (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) - 95 views

  • In general, we almost never see people use advanced search. And when they do, they typically use it incorrectly — partly because they use it so rarely that they never really learn how it works.
  • or many problems, the actual answer is right there. But the concept that you might have to sometimes go beyond search listings is getting lost
  • any problems, the actual answer is right there. But the concept that you might have to sometimes go beyond search listings is getting lost
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  • Sadly, when one approach is so easy (and works much of the time), users never develop the research skills needed to try or even consider other approaches.
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    "Today, many users are so reliant on search that it's undermining their problem-solving abilities. Ironically, the better search gets, the more dangerous it gets as people increasingly assume that whatever the search engine coughs up must be the answer."
Tony Bollino

Google Custom Search - Site search and more - 39 views

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    Create your own Google Safe Searching. Create a set of web sites for students to search without going to the wide open Internet. Great for young students or teaching about web site reliability.
Kelvin Thompson

Best Image Search Engines - 173 views

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    Best Image Search Engines
N Carroll

Twurdy Search - Search for Readable Results - 61 views

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    Search engine - with readability built in "Twurdy uses text analysis software to "read" each page before it is displayed in the results. Then Twurdy gives each page a readability level. Twurdy then shows the readability level of the page along with a color coded system to help users determine how easy the page will be to understand."
Roland Gesthuizen

Twitter - a great search engine! « On an e-journey with generation Y - 34 views

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    Use twitter as a search engine. Instead of getting information from eg google  you get people when searching for a topic on twitter. People who are interested in talking about a topic at a certain time. Can find out very interesting and sometimes specific information that is better than a google search. In some particiular circumstances there are commentators or companies who would be worth following.
raya samet

SearchCredible - 31 views

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    A search engine that allows you to enter your query, then select a credible source to search for that term in. These include JStor, the Library of Congress, Ebscohost, Eric, the Internet Archive, and many more.
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