Bookmarks for Extreme Googling
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Core Google Services
http://www.google.com
THE page to start from and for most web page searching.
http://www.google.com/advanced_search
Useful to change language of results pages, select from a list of filetype formats, or change content filtering for a single search. It's better to learn to use commands from Basic Search, because Advanced Search offers fewer options.
http://www.google.com/dirhp
Open Directory Project's 1.5 million selected sites, enhanced by Google ranking.
Second-Party Google Tools & Info Useful with Google
FaganFinder Ultimate Google Search Page
http://www.faganfinder.com/google.html
Form search for Google, especially useful for automatically converting Julian dates for date range searching.
Julian Date Converter
http://www.fourmilab.to/documents/calendar/
Enter a Gregorian date in first box, click Calculate, and receive the Julian date below. Can be used in reverse.
GAPS ? Google NEAR Search (uses Web API)
http://www.staggernation.com/cgi-bin/gaps.cgi
Can search up to three words in proximity by executing searches using Google's * as whole-word wildcard. NOTE: If you have joined Google and have an API key, enter it when you search in order to spare the key of the providers of this wonderful application.
Country Codes and Other TLDs List
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_TLDs
All two-letter country codes and other authorized top level domain codes (TLDs). From useful online Wikipedia.
Pageinfo Better Than Google's: alexa.com
http://www.alexa.com/
Enter a URL in the search box. Receive traffic ranking, links to the page, related pages, contact information, and access to page history by clicking on the link to the Wayback Machine Internet Archive.
The Google Family of Databases
http://www.google.com/grphp
Usenet Newsgroups since 1981 on many topics. Advanced Groups Search allows limiting by group, author, subject field, message ID, date, and filtering. Google Account (free) required to participate in groups.
http://www.google.com/imghp
Over 800 million images. Advanced Image Search allows limiting by filetype, size, colors, site or domain; and changing filtering.
http://local.google.com/
Search web pages and yellow pages, specifying both a locality and item or topic to search for. Results match words and offer helpful subdivisions within results. Can limit to 1, 5, 15, 45 mile radius.
http://maps.google.com
Drag to map area, search for cities or zip codes, view satellite image, get local information about businesses and services, find driving directions.
http://news.google.com
4,500 news sources, covering last 30-days. Advanced News Search allows limiting by source, location, headlines, body, URL, and date.
Google Shopping:
http://www.google.com/froogle
Froogle offers thousands of merchant-supplied catalogs and web pages, mostly keyed to websites. Froogle Advanced Search allows limiting by price range, category, where words occur in entries, and filtering; also change display by store and layout.
http://catalogs.google.com
Catalogs offers scanned, searchable text with images from other merchant-supplied mail-order catalogs. Catalogs Advanced Search allows limiting by category, current or all catalogs, and filtering
http://toolbar.google.com/
For browsers other than IE and for Macs: http://googlebar.mozdev.org
http://www.google.com/preferences
http://www.google.com/help/faq_filetypes.html
Google Language Tools (including Translation)
http://www.google.com/language_tools
Google Features (Shortcuts) Described
http://www.google.com/help/features.html
http://www.google.com/options/universities.html
Limits searches to university's site. List of universities provided.
http://labs.google.com/
Upcoming and emerging Google technologies.
Googling Help - Further Explanation of Google's Features
Google Guide by Nancy Blachman
http://www.googleguide.com
Very well written, fairly comprehensive online guide to many of the features of Google, with exercises and answers. Excellent section on Google Shortcuts. Written by a Google fan, who is also a mathematician, the Guide sometimes errs in favor of overlooking some of the frustrating and puzzling aspects of Google. Very useful to teach others the basics of Google and Google's family of databases and features. Use online through the CLICK TO BEGIN button, and choose a novice or experienced user level. Also available in printable PDF for a small fee.
Other Search Engines and Their Shortcuts
Yahoo! Search - http://search.yahoo.com/
Yahoo! Shortcuts List - http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts
Yahoo! Education and Reference Collections - http://education.yahoo.com/
Teoma Search - http://teoma.com/
Ask Jeeves Smart Search Tools - http://static.wc.ask.com/docs/announcements/searchsmarter.html
High-Quality Subject Directories - When Search Engines Aren't Enough
Librarians' Index to the Internet - LII.ORG
Internet Public Library Pathfinders - http://www.ipl.org/div/pf/
Academic Info - http://www.academicinfo.net
Infomine - http://infomine.ucr.edu/
Useful Bookmarklets for Searching
"Bookmarklets for Searching" article
http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/bmlets/
Greg Notess's collection of bookmarklets that may be useful in searching. From SearchEngineShowdown. Offers bookmarklets for transferring the same search terms to another search engine. For instance, you've tried Google and you wonder how the same search terms would work in another search engine.
NOTE: To use these or any other bookmarklets, drag them into your bookmarks, personal toolbar, links bar, or equivalent in your browser:
Bookmarklets for searching your library catalog
http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/stories/2002/12/11/librarylookup.html
Jon Udell's Bookmarklets to check, for many OPACs worldwide, if a book is in a library, once you know its ISBN (for instance, you are working from Amazon.com or another database with ISBNs).
Optional Interesting Reading about Searching and Googling
GMail: Google Storms the Webmail Market
http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/jul04/wiggins.shtml
Thorough, objective review of value and downsides of Google's email service.
Searcher, vol. 12, no. 7, July-August 2004.
"The Nature of Meaning in the Age of Google"
http://informationr.net/ir/9-3/paper180.html
For anyone interested in the big picture of Google's impact on "meaning," a think piece on the effect of Google's success on indexing, web authoring, research, and other heavy topics.
Information Research, vol. 9, no. 3, April 2004
"Coming Soon: The Death of Search Engines"
http://www.llrx.com/features/deathsearchengine.htm
A think piece by Canadian search expert Rita Vine on trends and what search engines are not succeeding at.