Have you played with Google Labs' Ngram Viewer? It's an addicting tool that lets you search for words and ideas in a database of 5 million books from across centuries. Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel show us how it works, and a few of the surprising things we can learn from 500 billion words.
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YouTube Instant - 0 views
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A search tool for YouTube modeled on Google Instant search
DeweyDigger - 1 views
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DeweyDigger.com is a visual search portal where you can "Explore knowledge via the Dewey Decimal Classification; just clickety-click." On the splash page you are presented with the main Dewey Numbers and an ever-changing interactive panorama showing images from these listings. Next you need to click on an image to access a cloud tag of terms in that call number. From there you can select a tag and then select a search or research tool to locate information.
Internet Tutorials - 0 views
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This excellent site begins with an overview of the WWW before looking more closely at Search with annotated lists of search tools and techniques as well as an extended discussion on the Deep Web and keeping current.
Education Article :: 100+ Google Tricks for Teachers - 1 views
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"It's Google's world, we're just teaching in it. Now, we can use it a little more easily. With classes, homework, and projects-not to mention your social life-time is truly at a premium for all teachers, so why not take advantage of the wide world that Google has to offer? From super-effective search tricks to Google tools specifically for education to tricks and tips for using Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Calendar, these tricks will surely save you some precious time."
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"From super-effective search tricks to Google tools specifically for education to tricks and tips for using Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Calendar"
How to search old tweets: 10 tools, 20 features - 0 views
Linked Data Tools: The Semantic Web - 0 views
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Semantic Web technologies have immense potential to transform the Internet into a distributed reasoning machine that will not only execute extremely precise searches, but will also have the ability to analyze the data it finds to create new knowledge. This paper examines the state of Semantic Web (also known as Linked Data) tools and infrastructure to determine whether semantic technologies are sufficiently mature for non-expert use, and to identify some of the obstacles to global Linked Data implementation.
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ManageFlitter - Fast & Easy Unfollowing for Twitter - 3 views
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"ManageFlitter enables you to # Clean up and manage who you follow. # Find out who isn't following you back. # Find out which inactive accounts you follow. # Easily search inside your Twitter stream."
What we learned from 5 million books | Video on TED.com - 0 views
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"Jean-Baptiste Michel looks at how we can use large volumes of data to better understand our world."
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