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• Search Techniques: Find free stuff on social bookmarking sites

  Published: July 26, 2007, 11:28 am

  Tags: Google, Search Techniques, Top

  and Angel outline 7 Google search tricks beyond just search operators like quotes and plus signs. My favorite is using social bookmarking sites to bypass spammers: If you are on the hunt for free desktop wallpaper, stock images, Wordpress templates or the like, using Google to search your favorite social media sites is your best bet. The word

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• Search: Yahoo adds a travel shortcut

  Published: July 29, 2007, 3:00 pm

  Tags: Search, Search Engines, Search Techniques, Travel, Yahoo

  shortcut to their arsenal of search tweaks. Just type in your destination to the Yahoo search bar, and you'll get hotels, restaurants, flight information, Flickr slideshows, and more. Probably my favorite aspect of this new search shortcut is the Things to Do addition. For instance, my above search for Paris, France yielded not only the typical

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• In Brief: According to Google Operating System, Google ...

  Published: July 30, 2007, 7:59 am

  Tags: Blogs, Google, Search Techniques, Web Search

  According to Google Operating System, Google is indexing many weblogs in (near) real-time, which makes finding the latest and greatest information on a topic or breaking news story that much more instantaneous.

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• Flickr: Mix up your photo browsing

  Published: August 4, 2007, 4:00 pm

  Tags: Flickr, Photography, Search, Search Techniques

  Web tracker Mashable.com has come up with a few....interesting ways to browse Flickr photos. These are definitely off the beaten track, but they still manage to deliver hot Flickr goodness. My favorites: browsing by drawing what you're looking for, browsing by song lyrics, and browsing by Sudoku (yes, really). I'm kind of a Flickr junkie, so

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• In Brief: This handy Google Cheat Sheet packs a ton ...

  Published: August 6, 2007, 10:25 am

  Tags: Cheat Sheets, Downloads, Google, Pdf, Search Techniques

  This handy Google Cheat Sheet packs a ton of Googly info into a 2-page PDF, from Googlebot IP addresses to advanced search operators.

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• Technophilia: StumbleUpon the best pages on the web

  Published: August 6, 2007, 12:00 pm

  Tags: Feature, Firefox Extensions, Getting Things Done, Getting To Done, Gtd, Internet Explorer, Productivity, Search, Search Techniques, Social, Social Bookmarking, Social Engineering, Social Networking, Social Search, Tagging, Technophilia, Top

  them using this method. Research. For anyone doing any kind of research, StumbleUpon is a dream come true, because the websites included in SU are hand-picked and filtered through many sets of eyes before they get to you. I've been able to find many, MANY incredibly rich research-oriented sites through StumbleUpon, faster and easier than using

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• Search Techniques: Improve your searches with GoogleGuide

  Published: August 9, 2007, 6:00 pm

  Tags: Cheat Sheets, Google, Search Engines, Search Techniques

  Fine tuning your Google searches has never been easier. GoogleGuide is an interactive cheat sheet that explains the Google search operators in detail and links to sample Google searches that demonstrate the search operators in action. You're not going to need to reference GoogleGuide everyday, but it's a nice one to have in your pocket when you

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• Privacy: Search Google anonymously at Googlonymous

  Published: August 9, 2007, 4:00 pm

  Tags: Anonymity, Google, Privacy, Search, Search Engines, Search Techniques, Top

  you and Google so you can search the web anonymously: When you search on Google through Googlonymous, it is Googlonymous that goes on Google and does the search for you, the only ip address that Google will see, is the ip address of the server of Googlonymous. Googlonymous does not keep any record who searched for what. If you're asking

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• Google: Find free comic books

  Published: August 11, 2007, 4:00 pm

  Tags: Free, Google, Search, Search Engines, Search Techniques

  up with a way to quickly search for free comic books online using Google. There are a couple ways to accomplish this, but if you are looking for title specific searches, this is what you would do: Examples: -inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:"index of" "Last modified" spider-man cbr and -inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:"index of" "Last modified"

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• Featured Download: Even more powerful searching with Google Hacks

  Published: August 14, 2007, 10:00 am

  Tags: Downloads, Featured Download, Google, Search Techniques

  of Google Hacks can now search lyrics, fonts, applications, torrents, cache, web hosting, and use Google as a proxy. Google Hacks is a compilation of carefully crafted Google searches that expose novel functionality from Google's search and map services. For example, you can use it to view a timeline of your search results, view a map,

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• Bookmarklets: Find related Wikipedia articles with Similpedia

  Published: August 14, 2007, 4:00 pm

  Tags: Bookmarklets, Research, Search, Search Techniques, Wikipedia

  to the content. You can search Similpedia from their home page, but the easiest way to use Similpedia is with their browser bookmarklet. Just drag it to your bookmarks toolbar and then click it from any page. To narrow down the related links, select a specific chunk of text you're interested in before clicking the bookmarklet. Next time

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• Search Techniques: Find people with Pipl

  Published: August 15, 2007, 10:21 am

  Tags: Online Identity, People Search, Search Techniques, Top

  pals at Pipl, a people search engine. Unlike the recently-launched Spock, Pipl returned an impressive number of results for my own name, including my personal homepage, press mentions, SEC documents, Myspace page, Amazon wishlist and profile - stuff I didn't realize or forgot was online. Put in the first and last name, plus city, state

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• Back To School: Schoolr search start page

  Published: August 16, 2007, 9:30 am

  Tags: Back To School, College, Google, Research, Search Techniques, Start Pages, Students, Wikipedia

  Schoolr (the R stands for research) features a set of search inputs to popular student resources around the web - like Google, the Wikipedia, Reference.com, Spark Notes, text translation and unit conversion. Of course you could install most of these search engines into your Firefox search box, but Schoolr is still a useful browser homepage for

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• Featured Firefox Extension: Advanced Dork adds right-click menu Google search operators

  Published: August 16, 2007, 10:13 am

  Tags: Featured Firefox Extension, Firefox, Firefox Extensions, Google, Search Techniques

  with Firefox: All sorts of search-fu can be done with Google's advanced operators, but who remembers them all? Ditch the cheat sheet for Advanced Dork, a Firefox extension that adds Google operators (like intitle:, site:, maps:, cache:, link:, etc) to Firefox's context menu. Highlight text and search for it using Advanced Dork's search

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• People Search: Find social network members with Wink

  Published: August 16, 2007, 11:40 am

  Tags: Online Identity, People Search, Search Engines, Search Techniques

  (Yet another) people search engine Wink indexes social network profiles on MySpace, LinkedIn, and Friendster to help you hunt down long list friends and colleagues. Returning better search results than previously-mentioned Spock but not quite as good as Pipl, you can create your own profile at Wink to help direct searches for your name. Wink's

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