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Chris Sherman, president of Searchwise, said Google, Yahoo, Microsoft's Bing, and newcomer WolframAlpha are the four main search engines that benefit researchers.

Chris Sherman, president of Searchwise, said Google, Yahoo, Microsoft's Bing, and newcomer WolframAlpha are the four main search engines that benefit researchers.

"We all love Google. It's a great place to search and find things that we do not know about. The beauty of Google is its all powerful algorithm that executes billions of search queries. In addition to showing top notch search results, Google's algorithm has a few interesting features."

"Find exactly what you're looking for, only faster. yolink's FREE browser add-on tool takes search to the next level. By scanning web pages, search results, e-books and more, yolink brings you just the information you need in only seconds. Sorry Control+F. Your days are numbered. " Scans and organizes web searches, integrates with #GoogleDocs #EasyBib #Diigo

Now you can search directly in Google Images for Creative Common licensed images. No excuse NOT to use them, now, is there?

A feature on Image Search to help you find images that you can use for free, while respecting the wishes of artists and creators. This feature allows you to restrict your Image Search results to images that have been tagged with licenses like Creative Commons, making it easier to discover images from across the web that you can share, use and even modify.

Computer teachers take notice. A nice set of lessons to help kids learn how to search.

lesson plan on internet search

Another great way to search for current information on a topic.

Flickr: Advanced Search Multiple images rather than one string...

lots of interesting search engines

Search engine that allows you to search for public domain photos to use for projects. Some results you may have to pay for but this is usually the pictures displayed on the first row, much like an ad.

Want to help out students and colleagues with handy tips on improving search results and using popular Google products like Google Earth? Just print out these posters and hang them where everyone can see them.

With the materials on this site, you can help your students become skilled searchers- whether they're just starting out with search, or ready for more advanced training.

Lesson plans to develop search queries using Google.

"Google's customized search engine and tool for students and academics of all stripes was created by Anurag Acharya, a former academic who joined Google's web-indexing team in 2000. Scholar allows you to search journals, save sources to your personal library and, yes, get quick citations."

"If you make a habit of using the four techniques described below, you'll be a much better searcher than 90% of all web-users. It's just four things, and each will provide you with a better net for information catching. "

The future of search? Search results that you can watch.

Helping students search the internet

a must0see!! Very cool. search twitter and google. shared by @mcleod at #ebc09

How cool!!! Thank you for sharing!!!!

Wow! I'm overwhelmed - all good though!

web searching

Search for images and audio files to use under creative commons.

" The answer to almost any question is available within seconds, courtesy of the invention that has altered how we discover knowledge - the search engine. Materializing answers from the air turns out to be the easy part - the part a machine can do. The real difficulty kicks in when you click down into your search results. At that point, it's up to you to sort the accurate bits from the misinfo, disinfo, spam, scams, urban legends, and hoaxes. "Crap detection," as Hemingway called it half a century ago, is more important than ever before, now that the automation of crapcasting has generated its own word: "spamming.""