Episode 019 is an interview with Cliff Kalibjian of Mr. Health Search and author of Straight from the Gut: Living with Crohns Disease & Ulcerative Colitis about sites for health related information. cliff@mrhealthsearch.com 2415 San Ramon Valley Blvd, #4-242 San Ramon, CA 94583 1-800-794-5015 (925) 830-8439 00:00   Searching the Internet 03:20   Mr. Health Search 05:06   Straight from the Gut: [...]

Episode 18 covers some search engines news and then discusses various visual search engines including Mooter, Kart00, Grokker, Touchgraph, and more. 00:00   Intro 01:14   Searching the Internet 02:15   Yahoo Local Gets Updated 03:12   Yahoo Beats Google in Customer Satisfaction 04:01   New Yahoo Sports Facts & Figures 04:36   More Search Suggestions with Yahoo 05:26   Truveo Video [...]

This quick tip covers the new Yahoo Audio Search. Yahoo now gives you the ability to search across various online music stores as well as podcasts and other audio content on the web. It is great for finding all kinds of audio in a variety of way and has several option to help [...]

Episode 017 covers some search engines news and then discusses various mobile search sites. Places to find information from your PDA or cell phone if you have internet access. 00:00 Intro 01:27 Slashdot Posting on Sciencehack 01:48 Sciencehack: A Video Search Engine for Science 02:12 Research Buzz on Clusty Mobile 02:30 [...]

Episode 016 covers some search engines news and then discusses meta search sites including Dogpile, Clusty, Ixquick, Mamma, and QueryServer. I compare the metasearch engines in terms of their results and the number of oher search engines they cover. 00:00 Intro Search Engine News 02:01 Sputtr, a new search site 02:48 Ask [...]

This quick tips covers the search site CrossEngine, a new wat to use the same query on multiple search engines. This site allows you to use the same query and just select which search engine you want to use. It has a wide choice of areas to search such as blogs, the web, [...]

Episode 015 covers some search engines news and then discusses my favorite science search sites such as Scirus, Science.gov, Intute, Science Research, Sciseek, Faganfinder Science, SciNet, Science-search.org, as well as directories of science from Yahoo, Google, and Open Directory. 00:00:00 Intro Search Engine News 00:01:33 Googlebombs 00:02:23 MySpace.com & Yahoo Top Sites People [...]

In Searching the Intenet Quick Tips number 5 we cover Scandoo, a way to ensure the sites you find with Google, Yahoo, MSN or Ask are safe sites based on preferences you control. The results are displayed with a green checkmark for sites that are okay, a red sign with an X if [...]

Episode 014 discusses US Government sources of information including the CIA World Factbook, the Congressional Research Service, the former Office of Technical Assessment (OTA), National Archives, FirstGov search engine, American Factfinder, FedStats, THOMAS, Govtrack, and Free Government Information. 00:00 Intro Search Engine News 01:55 AskCity 02:43 Google Zeitgeist 2006 04:13 Google Mapping Europe 04:55 Google Searches [...]

Episode 13 discusses shopping sites. It focuses on shopping sites to find and compare products. The sites covered include thefind.com, become.com, Froogle, Yahoo Shopping, MSN Shopping, Shopping.com, mySimon, Bizrate, and Pricegrabber. 00:00 Intro Search Engine News 00:52 Flickr: Camera Finder 01:39 Yahoo! Maps releases from Beta 02:32 Better Shopping In [...]

This is the fourth episode of Searching the Internet Quick Tips and this one focuses on the site Worldcat.org. This site allows you to find library materials such as books, compact discs, and recordings at a library near you. You can refine your search results and then locate a library nearest you that has [...]

Episode 012 covers election information sites. These include Yahoo midterm elections, C-SPAN and CNN as major news sites. Also included are FairVote, getVoting411, League of Women Voters, Vote411.org, ElectionOnline.org, Election 2006, Factcheck.org , Media Matters for America, Politics1, Project Vote Smart, RealClearPolitics, and Open Secrets.org. Also mentioned is Electoral-Vote, ElectionProjection, Voter Protection [...]

Episode 011 covers some search engines news and then discusses searching for news articles on two of the major search engines (Google and Yahoo) and some lesser know ones such as Findory, Topix , Newstrove, and Newslink. 00:00 Intro Search Engine News 04:03 Google Buys YouTube for $1.65 Billion 04:37 My Thoughts on Google [...]

This is the third episode of Searching the Internet Quick Tips, a short podcast focusing on one site or search tip. This episode discusses how to formulate a search query. Example queries on Yahoo Lincoln Abraham Lincoln (Abe OR Abraham) Lincoln (Abe OR Abraham) Lincoln “civil war” (Abe OR Abraham) Lincoln “civil war” Stanton Example queries on Google Lincoln Abraham Lincoln (Abe OR Abraham) Lincoln (Abe [...]

This is the second episode of Searching the Internet Quick Tips, a short podcast focusing on one site or search tip. This episode discusses using the site: command on Yahoo, Google and MSN search to perform a site search on websites that do not offer that capability. Basically, any site that is indexed [...]

Episode 010 of Searching the Internet covers some search engines news and then goes over sites to find locations on maps and driving directions as well as some great collections of all kinds of map related information. 00:00 Intro Search Engine News 03:51 Ask Additions to Smart Answers 04:26 Ask has Movie and TV [...]

This is the first episode of Searching the Internet Quick Tips, a short podcast focusing on one site or search tip. The first episode discusses Farecast. This site helps predict what will happen to the future price of a given round trip airline ticket. Other Podcasts mentioning Farecast (powered by Podzinger) STIQT001-2006-08-29.mp3 Technorati Tags: air [...]

Episode 009 covers some search engines news and then how to search for images and pictures using Google, Yahoo, Ask, and Altavista as well as Flickr, Picsearch and Ditto. 00:00 Intro Search Engine News 01:56 Google Teams up to protect against Badware 02:30 Google Maps Saves Locations 03:46 Yahoo Search Builder Image Searching 08:54 [...]

Episode 008 covers some searching for tags using Technorati and other meta-search sites for tags such as Keotag, Tagground, Tagjag, and Tagfetch. 00:00 Intro Search Engine News 01:22 Technorati Redesigned 02:29 Ask adds blog posts to Smart Answers 03:17 Yahoo redirects some link and site searches 04:10 Become.com Tag Search Sites 06:47 [...]

Episode 007 touches on some topics from previous episodes and then covers some search engines news and concentrates on how to find podcasts with iTunes, Yahoo podcasts and Podcast Alley as well as newcomers Zapzap and Pluggd. This episode also discusses searching within podcasts using Podscope and Podzinger. 00:00 Intro Search Engine News 03:00 [...]

Episode 006 of Searching the Internet covers some search engines news and then concentrates on blog searches. The sites covered include Google, Yahoo, Ask, Gigablast as well as IceRocket, Clusty, Technorati, Sphere, Blogpulse, and Blogdigger. 00:00 Intro Search Engine News 01:33 Google updates Macintosh software 02:09 Google Government Search 02:41 Google Sync Tools 03:34 [...]

Episode 005 of Searching the Internet covers travel related search sites such as Travelocity, Expedia, Hotels.com and more as well as some lesser know but very good newcomers to the travel search market. Also how to choose a seat on a airline flight and some places for information on various vacation destinations. 00:00 Intro Search [...]

Episode 004 of Searching the Internet covers acronym finders, urban legends, the internet archive, and RefDesk. 00:00 Intro Search Engine News 00:45 Google Notebook 01:40 Google Blog Search date limits 03:31 Google Advanced Search Creative 04:52 Google Trends 07:24 Tagground 08:34 Number of Words in Searches 09:48 Snap.com New Interface 10:57 Announcements Acronym [...]

Episode 003 of Searching the Internet covers finding people, addresses and reverse phone lookup web sites. Some of the sites discussed include Zabasearch, Infospace, and Superpages among others. 00:00 Intro Search Engine News 01:28 Yahoo blog search Bookmarklet 02:50 New Blog search engine Sphere 04:20 Google command type: 05:05 Google’s refined results 05:42 Google Problem with [...]

Episode 002 of Searching the Internet. The second episode of Searching the Internet. This episode discusses some search engines news and then looks at some of the advanced search features of Google and Yahoo. Also the nich search engine Scirus is discussed. Scirus is a science search engine . 00:00 Intro 02:06 Google releases 3D [...]

Initial episode of Searching the Internet. This episode discusses several different search engines and what I like about them with a focus on finding RSS feeds. 01:13 About Ed Vawter 02:08 Exalead search engine 03:04 Google personalization. Becoming a portal? 04:10 Ask redesigned 05:03 Yahoo advanced search for XML/RSS 06:18 About RSS 10:02 Yahoo including links to Wikipedia articles 11:13 Fagan Finder, a [...]