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    This document discusses effective search tactics and tools. It provides a brief history of search engines starting with Archie in 1990. It then explains how search engines work by crawling the web, indexing pages, and allowing users to search the index. The document reviews Google's dominance in the search market share and describes some of Google's search features and options for web, images, videos, news, alerts, books, scholar, and more. It also lists other sites that can help users search like experts, such as search engines for PDFs, documents, social bookmarks, and Wikipedia. The document concludes by introducing some "cool tools" for searching like Cooliris, CoolPreviews, and WikiLook.

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    This document discusses effective search tactics and tools. It provides a brief history of search engines starting with Archie in 1990. It then explains how search engines work by crawling the web, indexing pages, and allowing users to search the index. The document reviews Google's dominance in the search market share and describes some of Google's search features and options for web, images, videos, news, alerts, books, scholar, and more. It also lists other sites that can help users search like experts, such as search engines for PDFs, documents, social bookmarks, and Wikipedia. The document concludes by introducing some "cool tools" for searching like Cooliris, CoolPreviews, and WikiLook.

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    This document discusses effective search tactics and tools. It provides a brief history of search engines starting with Archie in 1990. It then explains how search engines work by crawling the web, indexing pages, and allowing users to search the index. The document reviews Google's dominance in the search market share and describes some of Google's search features and options for web, images, videos, news, alerts, books, scholar, and more. It also lists other sites that can help users search like experts, such as search engines for PDFs, documents, social bookmarks, and Wikipedia. The document concludes by introducing some "cool tools" for searching like Cooliris, CoolPreviews, and WikiLook.

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    Effective Search

    Tactics

    By Jilan Wagdy
    Jilan.wagdy@gmail.com
    Index
     Search Engines History.
     How Search Engine Works
     Search Engines Market Share.
     Google Search Engine.
     Google Attributes.
     Google Search Options.
     Sites Helps To Search Like An Expert.
     Cool Tools 
    Search Engines History

    Archie (1990)

    • The first search engine created was Archie.


    •Archie is a tool for indexing FTP archives.
    •created in 1990 by Alan Emtage, a student at McGill University in Montreal.
    •The original intent of the name was "archives," but it was shortened to Archie.
    How Search Engine Works

    1. Web crawling
    2. Indexing
    3. Searching
    How Search Engine Works

    Some search engines get their


    results by turning to third-
    party "search providers" to
    "power" their listings.

    These search providers may


    run their own search engine
    sites, as well.
    Search Engines Market Share
    Mar-10
    3%
    4%

    12%
    Google
    Yahoo
    Bing
    17% Ask
    AOL
    65.10%
    Google Search Engine

    1998 : 10,000 queries a day while still in beta.

    1999 : 500,000 queries a day .


    Google Attributes

    1. Explicit Phrase: "internet marketing“


    2. Exclude Words: virus –computer
    3. Site Specific Search:
    "internet marketing" site:www.smallbusinesshub.com
    4. Specific Document Types :
    "internet marketing" filetype:ppt
    5. This OR That : internet marketing OR advertising
    6. Word Definitions: define:SEO
    Google Search Options
    Google Search Options - Web

    1- Related Search
    2- Wonder Wheel
    3- Time Line
    4- Translated Search
    5- Updated
    Google Search Options - Images

    Size:
    o Width …. PX * Height ….PX
    Type :
    o Face
    o Photo
    o Clip art
    o Sketch

    Specific Color:
    Google Search Options - Videos

    Duration:
    o Short
    o Medium
    o Long ( More than 20 min.)
    Time:
    o Uploaded Last Hour
    o Uploaded Last 24 Hours
    o Uploaded week
    o Specific Time
    Quality

    Source
    Google Search Options – News

    Personalize your Search


    Google Search Options - Alerts
    Google Search Options - Blogs

    133,000,000 – number of blogs indexed by Technorati


    since 2002

    346,000,000 – number of people globally who read


    blogs (comScore March 2008)

    900,000 – average number of blog posts in a 24 hour


    period
    Google Search Options
    Books & Magazines

    GOOGLE SCANNED
    BOOKS IS OVER
    TEN MILLION.
    Google Search Options - Scholar
    Sites Helps To Search Like An Expert
    Sites Helps To Search Like An Expert
    PDF’s Search Engines
    Sites Helps To Search Like An Expert
    PDF’s Search Engines
    Sites Helps To Search Like An Expert
    Documents Templates & presentations
    Sites Helps To Search Like An Expert
    Rapid Share Search Engines
    Sites Helps To Search Like An Expert
    Social Bookmarks

    Digg
     Delicious
     Stumbleupon
     Reddit
     Mixx
     Technorati
    Sites Helps To Search Like An Expert
    Wikipedia’s Search Engines

    Ultimate Wikipedia articles search engine.

    It searches all of the Wikipedia sites at once


    (i.e., Wikiquote, Wikiionary, Wikinews, etc.)

     Has a very handy Wikipedia image search.


    Sites Helps To Search Like An Expert
    Wikipedia’s Search Engines

    Enter either a URL of the


    format:
    http://www.example.com or
    copy and paste a paragraph of
    text of at least 100 words.
    Sites Helps To Search Like An Expert
    Wikipedia’s Search Engines
    Cool Tools 

    Cooliris
    Search Channels :
    Google Image
    Bing
    Flickr
    Picasa
    DeviantArt
    YouTube
    Blinx
    Cool Tools 

    CoolPreviews
    Preview links and images
    without leaving your current
    page or tab.

    Just mouseover any link, and


    a separate preview window
    appears to show you the
    content.
    Cool Tools 

    WikiLook

    WikiLook is a Wikipedia &


    Wiktionary look up. Fast,
    light, open source tool
    that define words for you
    without need to open new
    tabs or windows.
    Cool Tools 

    Add-ons for Firefox

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