Google Search tools and Tips

Meta Search Engines

 www.clusty.com
www.copernic.com
www.dogpile.com
www.metacrawler.com
www.google.com/webmasters

Targeted tools using multiple information sources. Hitting specific areas, such as tools designed for legal searching and tools
designed for searching within schools and universities.

www.surfax.com

Vivismo uses clustering technology to aggregate information from numerous less well-known search engine sources
http://vivisimo.com

Google's talk on SEO on the google information for Web master site

www.google.com/webmasters

Google Adwords Program
www.google.com/webmasters

Site Optimizing your site for goole is the google FAQ at webmaster world
www.searchengineworld.com/spiders/google_faq.htm

Delivery and Automating Research Result

Site Optimizing your site for google is the google FAQ at web master world
www.searchengineworld.com/spiders/google_faq.htm

Delivery and Automating Research Results
Refining the Search Question. Six Ws. Who what, when , where, Why and how

Google API download
deskbar.google.com/help/api/plugin_download.html


Writing Simple, Effective Queries

Use keyword like "|" for OR operator
AND Operator

Exclude results with specific keyword using "-"

for example Virus -Computer returns search result without computer viruses

Include result which contains following keyword
meditation +Tamil


You can also use the Advanced keyword search page in order to find your best results

Report spam Pages
www.google.com/contact/spamreport.html

If you know that some one is stealing your content better report to the above url. Google will act upon the website and remove from indexing. Also use the DMCA licencing.
The best site to read about online right. You can also report too google spamreport. send FAX to DMCA deapartment of google.
http://chillingeffects.org/ .


More Operators

tilde ~ operator. Return search with synonym.
Please note the synonym search used in google for ~ operator is based on web usage patterns. And are not the synonyms you'd find in a thesaurus.


traffic ~data -site In the above example search return all the results related to road traffic including statistical data but excluding the web site traffic


Two sites that use simple client-side code to extend the functionality of google's searches are

www.Faganfinder.com
www.googlefight.com

Search Term
allin:
in:
define:
filetype:

Search in anchor
allinachor:
inanchor:

web Page search
allintext:
intext:

Title of Page
allintitle:
intitle:

url of Page
allurl:
inurl:

The keyword define: bring the definition for given keyword

filetype:pdf
filetype:ps
filetype:doc
filetype:xls
filetype:rtf


Locate business phone book
bphonebook:
phonebook:
rphonebook:

website related searches
site:
link:
inlink:
outlink:

How to get the best sample contract free...Provides sample contract and more information about best business practices for researchers.
www.aiip.org

Online research services
www.datastarweb.com
www.dialogweb.com
www.factiva.com
www.lexisnexis.com
www.questia.com
www.westlaw.com

Law suit business information birth and deaths Taxation property ownership and ransfers
www.choicepoint.com
www.courtlink.com
www.knowx.com
www.searchsystesms.com

Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals
www.scip.org

Is an wrapper about google webservice call through http
http://xoomle.dentedreality.com.au/search/?key=GoogleDevelperkey&q=searchstring

The best google sites
http://googlefan.com/modules/everything/


The google zeitgeist page, is maintained by google and updated weekly based on google user's search behaviour.
www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html

Lets you compare the relative number of results for two google search tersms. Although it's fun game, you can make some interesting observations about google's behaviour if you play wiht googlefight. For exmaple, it may be a comment on human psychologythat darth vedar wins a googlefight against luke skywalker and that evil triumpths over good.
www.googlefight.com

A googlewhack is a google search that produces exactly one result (remember, most searches result in million of listings) Googlewhack www.googlewhack.com is a site devoted to googlewhacks and googlewhacking.
www.googlewhack.com/rules.htm

PageRank explained provides everything you always wanted to know buy afraid to ask about this google page rank.
www.webworkshop.net /pagerank.html


ResearchBuzz, provides news and information about search engines and research topics.
www.researchbuzz.com

Is a visual search tool powered by google web APIs
www.anacubis.com/googledemo/google/index.asp

Send an email message to the address google@capeclear.com
http://capescience.capeclear.com/google/


Uses the google web API to open a random web page. The default random search chooses three words more or less out of thin air and opens the first web page that results when the three words are combined as a google query terms.
www.mangle.ca

Want to see the related pages of a website
www.staggernation.com/garbo/

works great on meta library search. The Meta lib portal provided by Ex li bris is a research portal tool. Or Meta search Engine - primarily intended for references librarians.
www.exlibrationgioa.co

Uses Google APIs to play your choice of the Descriptions, Titles, and URLs of the results of your Google serach.
www.speegle.co.uk