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Directories are not really search engines, but mainly systematically arranged listings of links selected by humans instead
of a computer program. This ensures low recall and high relevance. ALso consider encyclopedias.
Introduction: Some of the favourites of this particular moment.
o - BUBL -- United Kingdom. The BUlletin Board for Libraries is an excellent organised listing of links, collected by cybrarians.
o - Open Directory
o - ipl2 -- ipl2 is the result of a merger of the Internet Public Library (IPL) and the Librarians' Internet Index (LII).
Introduction: A few directories more or less suited for general purpose.
o - Digital Librarian: a librarian's choice of the best of the Web
o - EiNET.net -- One of the oldest directories on the Net, EiNET lists 2.000.000 links in about 700.000 categories. Links are annotated.
o - Infomine -- ''Scholarly Internet resource collections''. InfoMINE is built by librarians and intended for scholars.
o - Internet Public Library -- Michigan, USA.
o - LookSmart
o - Pinakes -- "a subject launch pad". Heriot Watt University, UK. Listing of gateways portals to (mostly) scientific information. No longer
updated?
o - The WWW virtual Library -- Geneva, Switserland.
o - World Wide Web Virtual Library
o - Yahoo -- The first, but no longer maintained.
Introduction: The following are Dutch language only.
o - NL-Menu -- "Dé Nederlandse webgids sinds 1992". September 2006 bought by Vinden.nl from the Royal Library, this site is the oldest Dutch
language webdirectory (started in 1992) originally built by librarians and up to 2004 maintained by the Royal Library, then
by Public Libraries, until september 2006.
o - Start Nederland
o - Startpagina -- Dutch language systematic arrangement of all kinds of subjects and 'daughterpages'. Popular.
Introduction: For one reason or another, the below directories are on the decline. Use them only when the above dirs do not give the answer
being looked for.
o - Librarians Index to the Internet -- Merged with Internert Public Library to form IPL2.
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With Ask on the decline, Exalead's database seriously getting outdated, and Yahoo search technology provided by Microsoft,
it is pretty safe to say there are at the moment just two search engines that matter for the general public. Yahoo returns
almost the same results as Bing.
o - Bing -- Microsoft, launched June 2009. After the launch of Live as successor to MSN in 2006, and subsequent efforts to purchase Yahoo
which failed, the Bing Search Engine is Microsofts new attempt to compete with Google. Has nice features, look at the list of operators and the fieldnames.
o - Google -- The largest. Help file, Google Labs. Go directly to Google in Germany, U.K., France, NL.
Introduction: Some major search engines that because of functionality may be considered 'important', but for one reason or another have
not made it to the Top Choices.
o - Ask -- Ask was probably a promising search engine at some time. Unfortunately, a lot of features that made it special have either
abandoned or simply do not work any more: saving individual search results, broader/narrower terms, factual information when
searching on e.g. countries. the binoculars and link to Alexia are still there.
o - Baidu -- Official PR China search engine. In Chinese.
o - Direct Hit
o - Exalead -- Although its database seems a lot smaller and outdated, Exalead's search language has much more functionalities which enables
the searcher to create more complex searches: near, truncation, and search suggestions.
o - FASTSearch
o - gigablast
o - Blekko -- "The main difference between Blekko and other search engines is the search syntax the start-up calls slashtags. By using specific
tags to refine queries, users can quickly filter search results to the specific sites they want. They can also change the
way results are sorted. Another feature that sets Blekko apart from other search engines is its open crawl and rank data policy."
o - Hakia -- In beta, semantic search engine with generally good results.
o - Search3 -- Searches Google, Yahoo and Live simultaneously. Does not integrate results, but presents results in three columns, one for
each search engine used.
o - Wolfram|Alpha -- Produced by Wolfram Research. Launched May 2009, aims to provide a single source for answers to factual queries, accepts free
form input and serves as a computational knowledge engine (not the traditional search engine) with an internal knowledge base
instead of searching the web.
o - HotBot -- Once number one, now owned by Lycos, which in turn is owned by Yahoo. Uses results from Ask.
o - Infoseek -- Powered by Yahoo!
o - Northern Light
o - Yahoo -- Used to be one of the first SSE and competitor to Google. After its cooperation with Microsoft Bing, the search language and
search results are (almost) identical to those of Bing.
o - All the web -- Once quite a revolutionary search engine, now owned by Yahoo.
o - Alta Vista -- The only one who used the NEAR operator. Owned by Yahoo
o - Cuil -- "The worlds largest search engine", says to have more than 121 billion indexed pages. Launched 27 july 2008 by ex-Google topguns.
Primitive and lacking decent help pages with explanation of the search language. Turned very quickly from Google Killer to
Google Lunch. Went offline since mid Sep 2010.
o - Excite
o - Microsoft Live -- Successor of MSNLive, which failed. Succeeded by Bing, since Live was not much of a success either.
o - Oingo -- Bought by Applied Semantics which in turn is bought by Google.
o - Teoma -- Sold to Ask Jeeves to form the search engine Ask.com
o - Wisenut -- Is offline for a long time now.
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The category of Serial search engines is used to search more Single Search Engines in 'serial mode' without having to retype the query, in order to follow "Reusers
Law of 3".
o - QuerySter SearchX -- Site does not exist anymore. Serial metasearcher, uses about 10 SEs by printing a floating bar on top of the original SE search
screen. Works great, except for Google when the floating bar suddenly disappers.
o - Search3 -- Searches Google, Yahoo and Live simultaneously. Does not integrate results, but presents results in three columns, one for
each search engine used.
o - Sputtr -- When setting 'Open results in new window', Sputtr can be used as a alternative to SearchX.
o - TwinGine -- Kind of ''Twin'' search engine, searches two search engines (Yahoo, Google) simultaneously, presenting results for each engine
in its own window.
o - Zuula -- Serial metasearcher using 5 SSE's in tabs, but the tabs can be configured. Very handy: saves recent searches. Supports OR,
-, phrase, site:. Also for Blogs.
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Organizes results into clusters based on related topics or similar content. Makes browsing large sets of results much faster,
and the clustering may help in finding better keywords. Thanks to MagdaP for some tips!
o - Carrot2 -- With tabs to cluster results from different search engines, except Google.
o - WebClust.com -- Clustering engine written by a computer scientist to make sense of large amounts of textual information extracted from internet,
intranet or digital libraries. Clustering goes one level deep.
o - Yippy -- Succesor to Clusty. Greatly improved with advanced search, cloud display, usefull options and more results than Clusty.
o - iBoogie -- By Cyber Tavern. Customizable clustering search engine, with optionally searching and clustering info from specified source
only such as FBI, Library of Congress a.o. Also news and images tabs.
o - Clusty -- Succesor of Vivisimo. CLustering engine with surprisingly few results but the clustering may be helpfull to find new terms
and keywords. Succeeded by ''Yipp!''
o - vivisimo -- One of the first general purpose clustering search engines. Now offers a Bio Metacluster demo.
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A couple of search engines for scientific information only. Also consider the category Federated Search Engines.
o - Google scholar -- Scientific info, also and mainly a citation research tool.
o - Science.gov Alliance -- Deep Web Technologies. Gateway to about 50 million science information docs provided by US government agencies.
o - Scientific Commons -- Switserland. Access to free scientific information, has about 26 million citations.
o - Scirus -- for scientific information only. "...most comprehensive scientific research tool on the web. With over 450 million scientific
items indexed at last count, it allows researchers to search for not only journal content but also scientists' homepages,
courseware, pre-print server material, patents and institutional repository and website information."
o - Scitopia -- Deep Web Technologies. Federates search engine. Access to about 3.5 million documents, including patents and government data.
Auto clustering by topic, author, journal title, publisher, affiliation and date. Other frequency tables as well! Mostly beta
sciences.
o - WorldWideScience.org -- "The global science Gateway". "...global science gateway connecting you to national and international scientific databases
and portals. WorldWideScience.org accelerates scientific discovery and progress by providing one-stop searching of global
science sources. The WorldWideScience Alliance, a multilateral partnership, consists of participating member countries and
provides the governance structure for WorldWideScience.org".
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Internet tools are some clever instruments or techniques that can be used to assist (!) the searcher in validating informatin
found on the Net.
o - Soovle -- For six search engines, will return 'synonyms' for each, double clicking on one will take the searcher to that search engine
and return results.
o - Best Search Tools Chart
o - FAGAN finder
o - Google features
o - Google operators
o - pandia search central
o - Goshme -- For searching search engines. Registration required.
Introduction: These tools are specifically designed to check for the overlap between SEs, if there is any...
o - Missing pieces -- From DogPile meta search engine.
o - Thumbshots ranking -- Gives a ranking comparison between results from two search engines of your choice.
o - The Top 100 Alternative Search Engines -- By Charles Knight
o - Top 100+ Search Engines -- Melanie Colburn. Starts a discussion on what exactly a search engine is.
Introduction: Enable comparison of search engine rankings by presenting search results of multiple search engines on screen, typically each
in their own tab or frame.
o - Bing&Google -- Straightforward comparison of just Google and Bing, javascript framed (thus making reading difficult).
o - BlindSearch -- By Michael Kordahi. Presents search results in 3 column without the name of the search engine. The user 'votes' for one of
the resultslists to only then get a look of the search engine.
o - GrabAll -- Compare rankings of two search engines, but can choose from any of eight.
o - Scour -- Ranks Google, Yahoo and Live results in a single list, with ranking indicators for each search engine on the right hand side.
Interesting.
o - Sez4 Beta -- Can pick 2 to 4 search engines, results will be displayed in a frame for each search engine. Offers to search SSE (Google,
Yahoo, Bing, AllTheWeb, Ask, Cuil, and others), but also meta search engines, news SE, blogs, video, social net, and more.
o - TripleMe -- Compares three searh engines (MSNLive, Google, Yahoo) in a single frame.
o - Twingine -- enter one search to get results in two separate windows: one for Google and one for Yahoo.
o - GMacker.com -- Support for using Google's search field ''daterange:'' which requires Julian date values. This util will calculate the correct
Julian date values for any daterange and execute the search.
Outdated, Google now offers user friendly date limiting.
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Some of the more usefull Dutch search engines, Dutch origine, mainly Dutch language, typically aimed at the Dutch market.
o - Ilse
o - Search.nl
o - Symbaloo Nederland Beta -- Personalised graphical desktop that can be rearranged by dragging, removing or adding blocks with types of search engines
to a square box.
o - Track.nl
o - Vindex.nl
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Also called hidden web, or dark web, which is all the same thing.
o - Complete Planet -- Bright Planet Corp. Listing of about 70.000 searchable databases and specialty search engines, not found by 'normal' search
engines.
o - IncyWincy -- 'The invisble web search engine'.
o - Invisible Web -- (ooo, is being refurbished).
o - Goshme -- To find search engines with exclusive content and features. Needs (free) registration, which can be slow.
o - Turbo 10 -- "Search the deep net".
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This type of SE searches multiple sources simultaneously in parallel in real time, contrary to meta search engines that search
multiple static indexes.
o - Biznar beta -- Deep Web Technologies. Aimed primarily at business sources. Basic and advanced search, alerts, many search tools (like clustering)
and frequency analyses tools. Sources may be preselected, results can be saved and mailed.
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Some SE's claim they search in real time, whatever exactly that is. Here are a few examples. Also see Deep Web Technologies
BizNar and Mednar, as well as Federated SE's.
o - Collecta Beta
o - Google real-time
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Search engines to find files in the FTP domain.
o - FTP site list -- Monthly updated listing of anonymuos FTP sites. International.
o - FTPsearchengines.com -- Listing of FTP search engines, FTP-clients, file searchers and an introduction to FTP.
o - Filewatcher -- Searching on (parts of) filenames
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Some search engines to search social network(ing) sites (SNS)
Introduction: Covering search engines that either are aimed at international SNS's, or cover more than one SNS.
o - Topsy beta -- Based on Twitter, lags about half a day. indication of retweets, relevance ranking (trends) and advanced search mode.
o - Twitter advanced search -- Twitters's own search page. More than average search possibilities with Boolean and field searching fully supported. ALso 'attitude' selectors for positive or negative mood.
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For prospective searching, to find information that cites the information in the search argument, to find information that
is newer then what we have. Also consider the vertical citation indexes like CLAIMS and Derwernt Patents Citations Index (both
Dialog) for patent citations.
Also try the link: operator available in Exalead. Used to be available in Google and Yahoo but has since some time now been turned off.
o - Academic Search -- Microsoft.
o - CiteSeerX beta -- Succesor of CiteSeer. "Citations made by indexed documents". Searches about 767.000 docs. Emphasis on mathematics and computer
sciences.
o - Google Scholar -- Limited, simple, but useable.
o - Arts & Humanities Citation Index -- ISI Institute of Scientific Information. Dialog file 439.
o - ISI Web of Knowledge
o - Science Citation Index -- ISI Institute of Scientific Information. Dialog file 34, 434.
o - Scopus -- Elsevier B.V. Much larger then the ISI producsts.
o - Social Science Citation Index -- ISI Institute of Scientific Information. Dialog file 7.
o - Web of Science -- Thomson.
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Here are some examples of visual output of search engines. Most of them are very interesting experiments, but not yet usefull
enough for serious searching.
o - Google enabled Visual Search -- Runs on windows only.
o - Grokker -- Nice, but no support for Linux. Two modes: outline view (clustering) and map view.
o - KwMap
o - Mooter
o - NewsMap -- Designed by Marumushi, uses a treemap to present Google news, where the more important news items are given more prominence
and headlines are clickable to load the news article itself.
o - TouchGraph
o - Webbrain 2.0
Introduction: Here are the tools that unfortunately do not function anymore.
o - Kartoo
o - Missing Pieces -- Developed by InfoSpace and hosted by Dogpile, showed the overlap between the by then big three search engines. Does not function
anymore.
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Binary search engines are typically used to find binary postings on UseNet regarding films, digital books, software, music
and the like. A binary search engine is a kind of catalogue, it will only indicate in which usenet group a certain posting
is to be found. Other software is needed to actually retrieve the items. Also, a payserver is needed that will offer the usenet
binary groups with reasonable retention.
o - Binsearch.net -- Also available at BinSearch.info.
o - NZBIndex
o - YabSearch
o - Newzbin -- Fee based, for members only.
o - Binaries4all -- About binary newsgroups. Guides and step by step explanation on using binary newsgroups and on how to download files from
binary newsgroups. Also explains NZBs, archiving, extracting, software for downloading, posting to groups, FTD tutorials,
etc.
o - BinIndex -- Is 'currently' down. Binary search engine and newsgroup browser
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Listing links to bookshops and sources for full text books.
o - Amazon
o - Amerigo
o - Barnes Noble
o - Bibliofind
o - Noord Nederlandsche Boekhandel
o - A9 -- Amazon's book search engine.
o - Google Books -- Mainly reviews, also lots of full text books.
o - Google Ebookstore -- About 3m titles. Intended for mobile reading. Titles in uers' personal library are stored in the cloud. Partly fee-based,
account required.
o - Million Book Collection -- The Universal Digital Library.
o - Open Content Alliance -- "...is a collaborative effort of a group of cultural, technology, nonprofit, and governmental organizations from around the
world that helps build a permanent archive of multilingual digitized text and multimedia material. An archive of contributed
material is available on the Internet Archive website and through Yahoo! and other search engines and sites."
o - Open Library -- About 22m books of which about 1m with full text. With clustering and frequency table tools. Beta.
o - Project Gutenberg -- Access to 28000 free full text books online. About another 100.000 are availble at the project's partners and affiliates.
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Only the general encyclopedias will be listed here. There are however thousands more, typically specialised in some subject.
Please note that many general encyclopedia hardly have a online presence but are very important anyway, like Encyclopedia
Americana, La Grand Larousse, Deutsche Encyclopedia.
o - Encyclopedia Britannica -- Probably the worlds most famous scientific encyclopedia.
o - WikipediA -- Most popular one, but its reliability is doubtfull, although the enormous peer group suggest the contrary.
o - Encyclopedia.com -- Searches the Columbia Encyclopedia and some others, as well as dictionaries.
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A well prepared free text search strategy starts with finding the terminology. What terms best describe the concept at hand.
This category lists some tools that may coome in handy.
Introduction: Dictionaries can be very helpfull in preparation of a search. They should be used in accordance to the Semantic Table to create
proper keywords and paying attention to such things as synonyms, homonyms, spelling variations, translations, history, etc.
o - Dictionaries
o - FreeThesaurus.org -- Dictionary and Thesaurus. By Alexander Tzvetanov, Bulgaria. Search on English language term will return a brief description/definition,
related terms (called thesaurus) and synonyms. Surprisingly relevant. Terms come from WordNet, Moby. Also visual thesaurus
and news examples. No help, no 'about us'.
o - IATE -- Interactive Terminology for Europe. Succesor to Eurodicotom. European Terminology database. Very usefull for bureaucratic
terminology in all languages of the EU.
o - MetaGlossary -- In Beta. For looking up definitions of terms. Results come predominantly from Wikipedia.
o - Roget's Internet Thesaurus
o - The Free Dictionary -- "...English, Medical, Legal, Financial, and Computer Dictionaries, Thesaurus, Acronyms, Idioms, Encyclopedia, a Literature
Reference Library."
o - WWWebster Dictionary
o - YourDictionary.com
o - Acronyms Finder -- to look up all meanings of a certain abbreviation.
o - Google sets -- Crude, but sometimes useful to get alternative terms for a concept.
o - Keywordfinder -- "...find related keywords for any search". Retrieves alternative keywords for a subject entered in the searchbox. Supports
multiple languages. Usefull, although crappy and many proposed keywords have got nothing to do with the subject and sometimes
are simply too funny for words (try Terrorism).
o - The free thesaurus -- Synonym finder. Extensive, not always relevant though. The popup screens with word explanations are handy.
Introduction: Some general purpose online translate tools.
o - Altavista Babelfish
o - Bab.la -- ''Dictionary Vocabulary Translation''. Translation to/from the English from mostly European languages, but also Hindi, kapanese,
Korean and Arabic. With useage examples and pronounciation.
o - Google Translate -- Many languages, not just translating text or words, but also translated search, i.e., searching Arab language websites using
English language terms.
o - Paralink
o - SysTran translations -- Same system as Babelfish.
o - MWB : Mijnwoordenboek -- In Dutch, translates to and from English, Dutch, French, German and Spanish. Annotated, multidisciplinary (also legal terms
+ explanations, technical terms etc.). Gives excellent explanations of terminology depending on discipline or science.
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o - Aircraft Charter World -- Commercial site, containing informatie about over 13.000 airports worldwide, their location, basic information and capacity.
o - World Aeronautical Database -- Database containing information on nearly 10,000 airports and over 11,000 navaids worldwide.
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o - SIPRI Arms Transfers Database -- ''...fully searchable online database containing information on all international transfers of seven categories of major conventional
weapons from 1950 to the most recent full calendar year. It can be used to generate detailed written reports and statistical
data.''
o - UN register of conventional arms -- By UNODA. Country tables listing exports, imports, military holdings. About two years behind. (Thanks Syl!)
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Mainly focussing on government information on the Internet, including world leaders. Also consider country information
o - NL Wetgeving
o - OpMaat -- Offical Dutchlanguage parliamentary database holding all offical papers from Dutch parliament: discussions, questions, motions,
etc. Fee-based. Use Parlando as an alternative.
o - Overheidsorganisaties -- ''Government organisations''. Dutch language addressbook listing government bodies, all government organisations, as well
as counties, municipalities and semi government bodies. Very complete and up to date. Part of 'Overheid.nl'.
o - Parlando -- Dutchlanguage parliamentary database holding all offical papers from Dutch parliament: discussions, questions, motions, etc.
o - Parlement
o - FEDWorld
o - GOA Government Accountability Office
o - LC Government Resources
o - USA statistics in Brief
o - USA.gov -- Successor to FedWorld.gov. Very large single entry site to USA government.
o - Yahoo US Government
o - Auswaertiges Ambt ('Foreign office')
o - Bundesministerium der Verteidigung
o - Bundestag
o - Bundeswehr
o - Bundeswehr im Einsatz
o - DIP - Dokumentations- und Informationssystem fur Parlamentarische Vorgange
o - Deutschen Marinen - Operation Eduring Freedom
o - Heads of state, heads of government, ministers for foreign affairs -- UN Protocol and Liaison service. Ordered by country, lists the head of state, head of government and minister of foreign affairs.
Regularly updated. (Thanks Syl!)
o - Lideres por nombre -- Center for international Relations and Development Studies. Listing of about 530 biographies of world leaders, with pictures.
In Spanish.
o - Rulers -- "...contains lists of heads of state and heads of government (and, in certain cases, de facto leaders not occupying either
of those formal positions) of all countries and territories, going back to about 1700 in most cases. Also included are the
subdivisions of various countries [...], as well as a selection of international organizations. Recent foreign ministers of
all countries are listed separately.". Also religious leaders, international organizations, and biographies with pictures.
o - World Leaders -- Successor to Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments. CIA, U.S. Lists the names and functions of cabinets
and other important government members of all countries in the world. Including representatives to the UN, ambassadors to
the USA and the heads of central banks.
o - World political leaders 1945-2008 -- Roberto Ortiz de Zarate. International listings, all countries, of leaders from 1945 up. Lists former political parties, current
political parties, royalty, prime ministers with dates and political party, some ministers and chairmen of chambers, chairman
of parties.
o - Embassy World
o - Governments on the WWW -- LAst change 2002. Comprehensive database of governmental institutions on the World Wide Web: parliaments, ministries, offices,
law courts, embassies, city councils, public broadcasting corporations, central banks, multi-governmental institutions etc.
Includes also political parties. Online since June 1995. Contains more than 17000 entries from more than 220 countries and
territories as of June 2002
o - Political resources on the net
o - Worldwide Embassy Database
o - Foreign governments on the Web -- Not there anymore.
o - International documents
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Here is a modest attempt to give no more than 10 search tips that in general should help any searcher improve search results.
The term 'recall' is the total number of hits retrieved, the term 'relevance' is the number of hits considered relevant by
the searcher. Best tip of all: ask your local librarian!
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Use more than one search engine
-- Use at least three single search engines to get a reasonable coverage of whats out there. Search engines typically only
cover a small part of the Net.
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Use AND to increase relevance
-- Use an AND operator to significantly reduce recall and at the same time increase relevance. Be carefull how to write AND in different search engines. (Type a space in most search engines).
3 --
Use OR to include synonyms
-- Use the OR operator in the search and to significantly increase recall at the expense of relevance. (Type OR in capitals
in most search engines).
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Use semantics
-- When looking for keywords to search with, use different spellings, abbreviations, translations, synonyms, plural, singular,
truncation (Exalead!) etc. Use professional terms when looking for 'professional' information, use popular terms vv.
5 --
Use NOT to exlude unwanted terms
-- Use the NOT operator to exclude unwanted terms from the results. (Type a dash "-" in most search engines.
6 --
Consider web directories
-- Consider using some of the larger web directories if you are unsure about search terms, want tips about experts, or
an introduction to a certain subject.
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Consider meta search engines
-- Use meta search engines as a last resort if none of the major search engines do not produce the results you want.
8 --
Use field names to restrict your search
-- Use field names to significantly increase relevance and lower recall. Use intitle: to search for titlewords only, use site: to search in a particular domain, use filetype: to search for particular document formats.
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Consider using Serial search engines
-- Use one of the Serial Search Engines to quickly search more than one single search engine in succession without having
to retype the query.
10 --
Use library catalogs
-- When searching for validated, high quality information with good coverage, use one or more online library catalogues.
Use a library loan system to have your librarian borrow the books for you.
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o - Port of Rotterdam
o - Port of Antwerp
o - IndiaOneStop.Com -- Ports and Maritime Services of the world. Internatinal
o - PortFocus -- Ports Harbours Marinas worldwide. ''Looking for marine transportation links, maritime services, yacht and boat supplies, shipping
cruise and sea freight links, bunkerfuels and bunkering, information about a port, harbour or marina? Choose sovereign country
(also for islands and dependencies, eg island of St Maartens falls under the Netherlands) then select the port.''
o - Ports.com -- Listing of about 3300 ports worldwide. Very short descriptions per port, but good to find out addresses of ports.
o - World Port Links -- Links to port authorities worldwide
o - Yahoo Port authorities -- Overview of directories
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Some useful image search sites, as well as two reverse image search engines.
o - Flickr -- Yahoo. Photographs only. Geotagging, blogging, personal pages. Very large.
o - Google images -- Most usefull source.
o - Tiltomo -- "...uses proprietary algorithms (mathematical calculations) to analyze the similarity and relationship between images.". Experimental.
Based on Flickr. Also see TinEye
Introduction: The (currently) main single search engines all have image search, with almost spectecular differences in search results.
o - Bing images
o - Picasa Web Album -- Google. Photo sharing, making albums. Also free client Picasa 3 for downloading to organize your own photo's..
o - Picsearch -- 3 Bn pictures
o - Yahoo images
o - Google Images -- Reverse image search. Drag a picture in the search bar to start a search. Does not lead to any useful results though. Yet.
o - TinEye reverse image search -- ''TinEye is a reverse image search engine. You can submit an image to TinEye to find out where it came from, how it is being
used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find higher resolution versions. TinEye [uses] image identification technology
rather than keywords, metadata or watermarks.'' Also see Tiltomo
o - BestPicturesOf -- Produced by Webcellence (Jerusalem, Israel). Uses Bing, Google and Flickr to search for images, photos, illustrations and
caricatures. This site is equivalent to Zuula picture search.
o - How to find images on the Internet -- Directory of links to image search sites, also maps. Covering general purposes sites, press, museums, commercial sources,
art, science, medical images, etc.
o - Ditto
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o - Internet Society (ISOC) -- Home of the IETF and others. ISOC is the organisation that controls it all.
o - IANA -- "The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has authority over all number spaces used in the Internet, including IP address
space. IANA allocates public Internet address space to Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) according to their established
needs." IANA IPv4 Address Space Registry
o - ICANN -- Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. "ICANN is responsible for the global coordination of the Internet's system
of unique identifiers. These include domain names (like .org, .museum and country codes like .UK), as well as the addresses
used in a variety of Internet protocols. ICANN was supposed to replace IANA.
Introduction: There are five RIR's worldwide, all serving the same purpose. Most RIR's have the same goal: "...provides Internet resource
allocations, registration services and co-ordination activities that support the operation of the Internet globally.". In
general, look for a link 'Database' for the WHOIS services. Search for Reports or Statistics to get the allocation tables.
o - APNIC -- Asia Pacific Network Information Centre. See the allocation listing.
o - ARIN -- American Registry for Internet Numbers. Covers Canada, Caribbean and North Atlantic islands, and the United States
o - AfriNIC -- Africa Network Information Centre. See resources list for distribution.
o - LACNIC
o - RIPE NCC -- Reseaux IP Europeens Network Coordination Centre. Serves Europe, the Middle East and parts of Asia, see the Service Region. See allocation table for allocations of addresses to countries. Operates the k.root-servers.net.
Introduction: The explanations by Karrenberg are excellent, aimed at the beginner, non-technician.
o - DNS Root Name Servers Explained For Non-Experts -- by Daniel Karrenberg, ISOC, 2007
o - DNS Root Name Servers Frequently Asked Questions -- by Daniel Karrenberg, ISOC, 2008
o - Full list of ccTLD and gTLD
o - Overview generic top level domains -- ICANN
o - The Internet Domain Name System Explained for Non-Experts -- by Daniel Karrenberg, ISOC, 2004
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Some sources that me be useful to keep track of Internet sources, search tactics, search tools, important developments on
the Internet for searchers, and the like.
o - D-Lib magazine -- Bimonthly, for techies, focus on digital library research and development, including but not limited to new technologies,
applications, and contextual social and economic issues. The magazine is currently published six times a year. Free, RSS service.
o - Information Today -- On news and long term trends in the information industry, monthly, fee-based. A few articles per issue are for free.
o - Logical Tips computing Ezine -- Susan Daffron. Tips for using commonly known hardware, software and services such as email.
o - Online : Exploring Technology & Resources for Information Professionals -- "...for information professionals and provides articles, product reviews, case studies, evaluation, and informed opinion about
selecting, using, and managing electronic information products, plus industry and professional information about online database
systems, CD-ROM, and the Internet". Fee based, some articles per issue are for free.
o - Search Engine Guide -- "The small business guide to search marketing". Free, RSS and subscription service.
o - Search Engine Showdown Blog -- Greg Notess. Infrequently updated, but very important.
o - Searcher : the Magazine for Database Professionals -- "...explores and deliberates on a comprehensive range of issues important to the professional database searcher. The magazine
is targeted to experienced, knowledgeable searchers and combines evaluations of data content with discussions of delivery
media. Searcher includes evaluated online news, searching tips and techniques, reviews of search aid software and database
documentation, revealing interviews with leaders and entrepreneurs of the industry, and trenchant editorials."
o - Tales from the Terminal Room -- Karen Blakeman. "...free newsletter for anyone who uses electronic media, and particularly the Internet, for locating information.
Content includes reviews and comparisons of information sources; updates on business information resources; dealing with technical
and access problems; and news of RBA’s training courses and publications". Free, subscription and RSS service.
o - The COOK report on Internet protocol -- ''Technology, economics and policy. A practical navigator for the Internet economy.'' Bimonthly, fee-based. Some articles
for free.
internet research news
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o - Bibliotech -- In Dutch, aimed at the University library Utrecht.
o - Cops in cyberspace Blog -- "...over politie en opsporing en internet". By Rene Leijen, Dutch Police Academy. In Dutch, great collection of security related
news, security incidents, Internet crime and the like. Free subscription and RSS services.
o - Google Operating System -- ''Unofficial news and tips about Google''. Sometimes published undocumented features about Google search.
o - HOAX.blog.nl -- In Dutch. About hoax messages and the impact of them.
o - Internet News -- "Articles and news about web searching and internet use, includes search tools, online news, email, current awareness tools,
and general use". RSS service.Free. Part of the Web Search Guide. Canadian.
o - John Battelle's Blog -- Free, with RSS and subscription service.
o - Karen Blakeman's Blog -- Slightly more up to date then the TFTTR.
o - Librarian of Fortune -- Mary Ellen Bates
o - Peter Scott's Library Blog
o - Phil Bradley's Blog
o - ResearchBuzz -- "News about search engines, databases, and other information collections". Free, subscription and RSS services.
o - SearchReSearch -- ''A blog about search, search skills, teaching search, learning how to search, learning how to use Google effectively, learning
how to do research. It also covers a good deal of sensemaking and information foraging.''. By Daniel Russell.
o - The Official Google Blog -- Free, with RSS and subscription service.
o - Internet Resources Newsletter
o - Netsurfer Digest
o - ResourceShelf (Gary Price)
o - Scout Report
o - Track guide
o - About.com Websearch -- Wendy Boswell
o - CyberSkeptic's guide to Internet Research
o - Greg Notess
o - Phil Bradley's website -- On Internet search and web design.
o - Ran Hock
o - Search Engine Land -- Danny Sullivan. News about search and WWW, with a strong focus on business and SEO.
o - Search Engine Watch (Chris Sherman)
o - Security.nl -- In Dutch.
o - Voelspriet -- Henk van Ess. Dutch language, fee based.
o - Web Search Guide -- "...The Web Search Guide is about web searching, web strategies and tools from a Canadian perspective."
o - WebWereld -- In Dutch.
o - WoW! Wouter over het Web -- Wouter Gerritsma. Regularly updated.
o - ZB Digitaal -- Edwin Mijnsbergen
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Introduction: A few authoritative sources that specialize in user and useage statistics. The sources here are the ones most cited in trend
analyses regarding most used browsers, search engines, popularity rankings, connectivity etc.
o - ClickZ Stats -- Formerly CyberAtlas: "Trends & statistics: the Web's richest source". Presents several 'Top Ten' stats for the Internet: top
search engines, top media value, etc. Also world net usage statistics.
o - Eurostat -- Large collection of all kinds of statistical datasets regarding all policies of the EU. Also internet use, usage and connectivity
statistics for multiple years.
o - Global Market Share Statistics -- Net Applications. Data on significant trends for internet usage, browser usage, mobiel trends, etc.
o - Hitwise.com -- "...reports on how 25 million Internet users interact with over 1 million websites across 160+ industries."
o - Internet World Stats -- Usage and population statistics. Listings of connections per region and country.
o - Nielsen//NetRatings
o - Zooknic Internet Intelligence -- Not updated since 2005, but the intentions of this site are still very valid.
o - comScore
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Free and fee-based journals.
o - African Journals Online (AJOL) -- "...over 340 peer-reviewed journals from 25 African countries. These journals cover the full range of academic disciplines
with strong sections on health, education, agriculture, science and technology, the environment, and arts and culture.
o - Directory of Open Access Journals -- "...covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals". About 4100 journals and 270000 articles.
Good subject tree. Search articles or journals, on subject, title or author.
o - Dutch list
o - Electronic Journal Title Index
o - Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek -- "...ist ein kooperativer Service von 503 Bibliotheken mit dem Ziel, ihren Nutzern einen einfachen und komfortablen Zugang
zu elektronisch erscheinenden wissenschaftlichen Zeitschriften zu bieten. Aufgenommen werden alle Zeitschriften, die Artikel
im Volltext anbieten."
o - HighWire Press -- Stanford University. 71 of the 200 most-frequently-cited journals publishing in science. [...] full-text life science articles
in the world, with 1,892,462 articles available without subscription. Also fee based articles. Good search possibilities,
alerts, Good for international relations.
o - John Labovitz list
o - LivRe! -- Brazil. Portal to free access journals on the Internet, about 3600 journals. Mainly beta sciences.
o - Newslink
o - Open J-Gate -- "...indexes articles from 4547 academic, research and industry journals.[...] 2580 of them are peer-reviewed scholarly journals.".
Links to 1m articles, growth about 300k per year
o - Magazines for Libraries -- LaGuardia, Cheryl, ed., with Bill and Linda Sternberg Katz. 17th ed. New York: Bowker, 2003.
"...An annotated listing by subject of over 6,000 periodicals. Each entry gives name of periodical, beginning publication
date, publisher, editor, address, price and such information as indexing, size, and level of audience. Short abstracts describe
the scope, political slant, and other aspects of the publication. Arrangement is topical, bringing magazines and journals
on like subjects together. To find an individual title, use the title index at the end of the volume."
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o - Ethnologue -- International. Describes for each country in the world the languages spoken.
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o - Eulex
o - Europol
o - Interpol
o - Drug Enforcement Agency DEA
o - Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI
o - Eulex
o - Law Library of Congress Serbia
o - OSCE Mission to Serbia : law enforcement
o - World Legal Information Institute -- Catalog and search facilities for over 500 databases from 55 countries including case-law, legislation, treaties, law reform
reports, law journals, and other materials
o - Police magazine
o - CopNET.org
o - CopSeek -- Police and Law Enforcement search engine and directory
o - Crime spider -- "...best crime and law enforcement sites and categorized topics. ... on criminalistics, forensic anthropology, FBI, unsolved
murders, homicide investigation techniques, child abuse, domestic violence, the death penalty, terrorism, criminal justice,
law and courts, behavioral profiling, gang violence, juvenile crime, missing persons, serial killers or mass murderers, criminals,
police, crime scene photos, ..."
o - Officer.com Directory of agencies -- links to law enforcement agency websites international, covering the USA and all other countries (see International Agencies).
o - Refdesk.com -- Facts encyclopedia Crime and law enforcement.
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General and special purpose maps. Also consider country information categories, as well as transport.
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o - Perry Castaneda library map colection -- Large, regularly updated, many simple country and city maps, sometimes surprisingly detailed. Maps of current interest on
top, with references to maps on other sites. Very useful.
o - ReliefWeb maps and updates -- Great map service, often very detailed and up to date maps of crises areas.
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o - MapBlast!
o - MapQuest
o - Maps.com
o - OpenStreetMap -- ''OpenStreetMap is a free editable map of the whole world. OpenStreetMap allows you to view, edit and use geographical data
in a collaborative way from anywhere on Earth. ''
o - Roelf Oddens Maps
o - Travel Journals
o - WikiMapia -- Which is as suggested a combination between a Wiki and satellite imagery. With some moderator functionality and links to unblurred
maps.
o - World Map Collections -- "...are a cooperative project of several public and private universities of Florida and the Florida Department of Environmental
Protection to make digitized modern and antique maps available on the Web. The Florida and Caribbean collections are particularly
strong, but Africa, the Americas, and the Middle East are also represented."
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Introduction: Combinations of (mostly) maps and some other data combined into 'new' information.
o - Directory of Mashups -- Coldbeans. Mainly Twitter mashups.
o - Mashups Directory -- Listing of the latest mashups
o - The World's News on Google Maps -- Nice example of a useful mashup
o - Twitter trends -- Plotting trending topics on Google maps.
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Introduction: Consider travel shops, outdoor shops, that typically have a book shop as well with excellent map departments.
o - Geografische boekhandel Jacob van Wijngaarden
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o - Index Mundi -- Historical maps only, fairly limited in scope.
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o - Bing maps -- Not as detailed as Google's, but has a very usefull birdseye view.
o - Google maps -- With route planner.
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o - ANWB routeplanner Europa -- Very good planner, covering Europe, with route and maps. The route has references to the map. The layout is easier to use
then the one of RouteNET.
o - RAC Route planner -- Covering Europe,
o - RouteNET -- Beautiful planner, with good maps and very detailed descriptions. Excellent. The route has references to the map. Covers Europe.
In Dutch.
o - ViaMichelin -- Covering Europe, with pictures of the signposts to follow.
o - the AA .com -- Covers the UK, Ireland and Europe, but you cant get from Europe to the UK or vv.
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Health information related to individual trauma, country health information as well as disaster relief and early response.
o - Country health profiles -- For Africa
o - Landelijk Coordinatiecentrum Reizigersadvies LCR -- In Dutch. O.a. Landenlijst en nieuws met informatie over vaccinaties en antimalaria aanbevelingen
o - Mednar -- Deep Web Technologies. Federated, deep web search engine that returns results in real time from multiple sources. Also see
the description with Biznar.
o - ReliefWeb -- NGO aggregator. Must use. "...the world’s leading on-line gateway to information (documents and maps) on humanitarian emergencies
and disasters. An independent vehicle of information, designed specifically to assist the international humanitarian community
in effective delivery of emergency assistance, it provides timely, reliable and relevant information as events unfold, while
emphasizing the coverage of "forgotten emergencies" at the same time. ReliefWeb was launched in October 1996 and is administered
by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)."
o - Yahoo Travel Health and Medicine -- Yahoo directory
o - EMM MedISys -- Aggregator for medical news, from the European Media Monitor.
o - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
o - World Health Organization -- United Nations. "...responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting
norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and
assessing health trends."
o - Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System -- "...provides near real-time alerts about natural disasters around the world and tools to facilitate response coordination,
including media monitoring, map catalogues and Virtual On-Site Operations Coordination Centre."
o - Global Disaster Map RSOE EDIS -- Worldwide alert map, by the Emergency and Disaster Information Service (EDIS), Budapest, Hungary.
o - Global disaster watch -- Monitoring natural disasters: climate change, cyclones, drought, earthquakes, flooding, freak waves, hurricanes, landslides,
meteor strikes, mystery booms/skyquakes, pandemics, record-breaking disasters, solar flares, space weather, tropical storms,
tsunamis, volcanoes, unusual animal behavior, weather extremes, wildfires; disaster archives from 1998-present.
o - National Center for Medical Intelligence (NCMI) -- Formerly 'Armed Forces Medical Intelligence Center (AFMIC)', based in Fort Detrick (MD). Now only available via Intelink-U,
which is for .gov or .mil domains only. Others need an account.
o - Medline -- US National Library of medicine. Made up of Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature. Free. PubMed is basically Medline with
a little extra.
o - MedlinePlus
o - PubMed -- US National Library of medicine. The "free" and very usefull version of Medline. Free. The advanced version of the database offers most options.
o - EmBase -- Elsevier. Exerpta Medica. 18 million biomedical bibliographic records from 1974 to present, with 500.000 additions per annum.
Competitor to Medline.
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Clever use of a search engine enable finding music quickly and easy. Try intitle:"index of" /mp3 OR /wma songtitle to find lists of songs from your favourite composer.
Introduction: For downloading or streaming music.
o - Clickster -- is a MP3 search engine client looking for music in websites.
o - LastSharp -- SoftTonic. Little tool that will download music in the background from www.last.fm. The latter one will stream music on genre
or category, LastSharp will then store the music. Alternative for LastSharp is No23 recorder.
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o - ABC
o - ANP
o - AP -- Through TBO.
o - Agence France Presse -- Most prestigious wire agency, but one.
o - Al-Jazeerah
o - BBC
o - CNN
o - NOS
o - RFE/RL
o - RNW International
o - Reuters -- Most prestigious wire agency in the world.
o - Reuters Today
o - Teletekst -- Dutch language.
o - XINHUA
o - 1stHeadlines
o - AlertNet -- Reuters Foundation.
o - All the web
o - Alta Vista
o - EINNEWS.com -- "... organized within 300+ country, regional, U.S. state and specialized topic sections. [...] derived from monitoring over
35,000 news sources and news sections."
o - Google
o - IRIN
o - MSN/NBC
o - Moreover ooo
o - News now.co.uk -- Indexes thousands of news sites on the Internet. Focusses on news content, and updates live every few minutes. Also has sophisticated
filtering technology which uses a combination of keywords and meta data to filter links to articles into hundreds of newsfeed
topics.
o - NewsTrove
o - Newsday.com
o - Northern Light news
o - topix -- "...links news from 50,000 sources to 360,000 lively user-generated forums. Topix also works with the nation's major media
companies to grow and engage their online audiences through forums, classifieds, publishing platforms and RSS feeds."
o - yahoo news
o - Europe Media Monitor (EMM) -- News aggregator en clustering service, developed by the Joint Research Center. Offers a
EMM NewsBrief with all the news clustered by frequency, themes, and a timeline, and a
EMM NewsExplorer offering the news for all official languages, clustered, with reference to countries and people. Use EMM MedISys for medical news analyses.
o - Silobreaker -- by Infosphere, SE. Now for free. Same idea as EMM, but better with sligthly more functionalities (like trends, network, profiles
etc).
o - Open Directory
o - TotalNEWS World News
o - 10x10 -- Useless, but fun, and a great idea. "10x10™ ('ten by ten') is an interactive exploration of the words and pictures that define
the time. The result is an often moving, sometimes shocking, occasionally frivolous, but always fitting snapshot of our world.
Every hour, 10x10 collects the 100 words and pictures that matter most on a global scale, and presents them as a single image,
taken to encapsulate that moment in time."
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o - Financial Times
o - Frankfurter Allgemeine
o - Washington Post
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o - Christian Science Monitor
o - International Herald Tribune
o - Le Monde
o - New York Times
o - Pakistan Tribune
o - Suddeutsche Zeitung
o - The Times
o - Washington Times
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o - Algemeen Dagblad
o - NRC Handelsblad
o - Telegraaf
o - Volkskrant
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Introduction: use one of the following links to find all (?) newspapers. Favourites are Web Wombat and secondly IPL Online Newspapers.
o - ABYZ News Links -- Newspapers and newsmedia guide. International.
o - All the world's newspapers -- Web Wombat Pty, Australia. International in scope, covers thousands digital newspapers. Browsing by country, region. Coverage
looks good.
o - Kidon MEDIA link -- About 20.000 newspapers and other newssources. International, arranged by country.
o - MetagrId newspapers & magazines -- Covers about 8000 newspapers and online magazines arranged by country and category.
o - NewsCentral -- USA. Links to more than 3500 online newspapers. Arranged by region, with separate link to college newspapers. Very small coverage,
much less then Wombat and Newslink.. For Africa, only three countries are listed.
o - NewsLink.org -- Newspapers, magazines, radio/tv and resources
o - NewsWealth.com -- Newspaper directory for USA and international. Also tabloids, US magazines, US radio and live Internet TV channels.
o - Newslink newspapers -- International, arranged by region or state. Also by category. Coverage is less than Wombat, but reasonable.
o - Online newspapers -- Part of the Internet Public Library (IPL), lists titles per region and country. Pretty extensive, second to Wombat.
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Most are commercial, providing images with watermarks for free.
o - EastView Cartographic -- Originally maps, now also satellite imagery.
o - GlobeXplorer -- Image site.
o - Google Earth -- Comes as a client, with two commercial variations.
o - MapMart
o - SIC -- Satellite Imagery Corporation.
o - SpaceImagery
o - TerraServer
o - WikiMapia -- Which is as suggested a combination between a Wiki and satellite imagery. With some moderator functionality and links to unblurred
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Very popular. Many leave behind a lot of personal data. Great for law enforcement purposes. Below are some of the more general
networks, although there are thousands of them. Also consider the special social networks devoted to sharing video (YouTube),
music (Imeem) or photo's (flickr).
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o - Facebook -- Most popular one, also a marketplace.
o - LinkedIn -- More or less serious network aimed at business.
o - Twitter -- With the search engine at search.twitter.com. Also try Twitter Trendsmap.
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o - MySpace -- Combination of MySpace and LinkedIn.
o - Plaxo
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o - Hyves -- Mainly Dutch social network. In Dutch
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Introduction: For checking your digital footprint some of the following may work.
o - 123people -- "...find comprehensive and centralised name related information consisting of images, videos, phone numbers, email addresses,
social networking and Wikipedia profiles plus much more. All of this rich media content is pulled from an extensive list of
international and regional relevant sources in over 11 countries in multiple languages."
o - Personas -- From the MIT. Slow, beautifull, and impressive, especially the analyses of unstructered data.
o - Pipl -- For finding people, searches the deep web as well, returns, Web search results, pictures, facts, Usenet posts, publications
and web sites.
o - Spokeo -- Fee-based. "...search for anyone via Name Search, Reverse Email Search, Reverse Phone Search or Username Search. Spokeo specializes
in aggregating and organizing vast quantities of people-related information from a large variety of public sources."
o - WIEOWIE -- "The people search engine". Dutch language. Metasearch engine to search social networks such as Hyves, Twitter, LinkedIn,
Schoolbank, Facebook, MySpace, the main search engines, picture sites
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o - Facebook Real-time search -- Facebook real-time search engine from Facebook itself. Updates automatically.
o - Kurrently -- Real-time search engine, searches Facebook and Twitter. Updates automatically.
o - Topsy -- Realtime search engine for Twitter, Facebook. With explanation of search language. Also qualifiers for limiting search results.
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Introduction: Some tools to use multiple social networks more effectively, such as browser plugins or specialised SN browsers.
o - Flock SN browser -- Supports Flickr, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and many others.
o - RockMelt SN browser -- Supports Facebook and Twitter.
o - Tweetdeck -- Owned by Twitter, real-time updates for Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, and LinkedIn. Also posting.
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o - Archivist -- Statistical tool, accept a full Twitter search query to return an overview with tweet volume over time, top users, tweet vs
retweet, top words, top URLs and source.
o - TweetStats -- Takes a username to return statistics on number of tweets over time, tweet density, daily/hourly tweets, interface used, replies
and retweets.
o - Twitter counter -- Publishes a timeline graph plitting the number of followers, following, tweets over time. WARNING: needs access to your profile
and wants to post tweets for you. Also try Twenty Feet (registration required).
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o - TwitterMap -- Accepts a keyword and plots the geo location of tweeters on a map.
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o - 5k Twitter Browser -- By Neuro Productions. Takes a username to graphically display the network of followers. Very slow.
o - MentionMap -- A Twitter visualisation tool, displaying the mentions and hashtags used the most in recent tweets by a single user.
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o - Download.com
o - Tucows xs4all
Introduction: Some tools useful for network security and penetration testing.
WARNING: these tools may or may not be illegal in your country. Use at your own risc. I do not accept any responsibility for the
use of these tools or any consequences thereof.
o - Aircrack-ng -- Is an 802.11 WEP and WPA-PSK keys cracking program that can recover keys once enough data packets have been captured. It implements
the standard FMS attack along with some optimizations like KoreK attacks, as well as the all-new PTW attack, thus making the
attack much faster compared to other WEP cracking tools.
o - Blue's port scanner -- Very fast port scanner. German.
o - Cain & Abel -- By OXid.it. Recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords using Dictionary,
Brute-Force and Cryptanalysis attacks, recording VoIP conversations, decoding scrambled passwords, recovering wireless network
keys, revealing password boxes, uncovering cached passwords and analyzing routing protocols. For XP.
o - Distributed password recovery -- To recover password from a variet of documetns
o - Nmap port scanner
o - sharK PWB++ -- Remote administration tool to take full control of a remote computer
o - Copernic -- Copernic Agent is the client to assist in searching the web. There are other very useful products as well, also to manage
downloaded data. Very good and cheap set of tools.
o - Zotero -- Free plugin for o.a. Firefox, to collect, organize, cite and share your research sources.
Introduction: Mainly used for forensic research, but also for other applications
o - Maltego -- Maltego is an open source intelligence and forensics application. Used to determine the relationships and real world links
between: Groups of people (social networks), Companies, Organizations, Web sites, Internet infrastructure (Domains, DNS names,
Netblocks, IP addresses, Phrases, Affiliations), documents and files. Not easy to use, and bit overwhelming interface, but
a must have once the basics are mastered.
o - Palantir -- "...a platform for information analysis. Palantir was designed for environments where the fragments of data that an analyst
combines to tell the larger story are spread across a vast set of starting material. Palantir provides flexible tools to import
and model data, intuitive constructs to search against this data, and powerful techniques to iteratively define and test hypotheses."
o - Recorded Future
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o - Lyng -- Large, extensive. International, listing almost all satellites and channels per country and satellite.
o - SatcoDX
Introduction: Also consider sites with recordings of recent TV broadcasts (Dutch: 'uitzending gemist') and off course Usenet.
o - AOL video -- Still in Beta. Formerly ''Singing Fish''. Channels,
o - Blinkx -- Search engine enables searching not only on added keywords but also on the transcript of the actual broadcast. Categorized.
Uses Autonomy technology. Annoying adds.
o - Dailymotion -- French, Paris. Available in several languages. Better quality content.
o - MetaCafe
o - Search for Video
o - Vimeo -- From New York, originated from video makers.
o - Yahoo video
o - YouTube -- Primary source for video clips and longer fragments. Censored. Bought by Google in 2006.
o - Business -- And go to media and entertainment; film; docu and nonfiction; distributors.
o - DocuSeek film & video finder
o - European Broadcasting Union
o - Georgetown University Library -- Limited to the Middle East and Africa, but of high quality.
o - Insight News TV
o - Google video -- Closed down 2011, content removed.
o - Truveo -- Closed. See AOL Video.
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Most of these also publish full text reports on all kinds of subjects in the field of international relations. The 'R' links
to full text reports, the 'J' links to journals/newsletters.
o - International Crisis Group -- International, main office in Brussels, BL. Excellent reports, full text. Monthly Crisis Watch.
R
o - International Security Network -- Must read. Very good selection of reports and essays, a fact database (FIRST)
, links to other think tanks and lists of abbreviations / acronyms.
R
o - International Atomic Energy Agency --
R.
o - International Strategic Studies Association (ASSA) -- Washington DC. Publishes the Defense & Foreign Affairs Handbook.
o - Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
o - Center for Contemporary Conflict -- US Navy.
R, Strategic Insights.
o - Center for Defence and International Security Studies
o - Center for Defense Information
o - Center for Nonproliferation Studies --
Part of MIIS, Monterey CA, USA.
J,
P
o - Center for Peace and Security Studies
o - Center for Strategic and International Studies -- (US, Washington).
R,
J
o - Council on Foreign Relations
o - Council on Foreign Relations
o - Instituut Clingendael -- Based in The Hague, The Netherlands. In Dutch.
J,
R,
R.
o - International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) -- Excellent source of top quality reports. Based in London UK, published ao Military Balance, Strategic Survey, Survival, Armed
Conflict Database. Publications available through Taylor & Francis.
o - John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies
o - Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
o - Amnesty International --
R,
o - Berliner Zentrum fur Internationale Friedenseinsatze
o - CATO Institute
o - Congressional Research Service
o - DEMOS
o - Energy Information Agency
o - European Union
o - GTZ Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit -- GTZ supports the German Government in achieving its development-policy objectives for political, economic, ecological and
social development in a globalised world.
o - Human Rights Watch
o - ICRC
o - IMF
o - IWPR
o - InterPol
o - Interkerkelijk Vredesberaad
o - NATO
o - National Intelligence Council
o - Nederlands Instituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie
o - OHR
o - OSCE
o - Peace and Conflict
o - ReliefWeb
o - Silk Road Studies Program
o - The Brookings Institution
o - Transnational Institute -- TNI is an international network of activist-scholars committed to critical analyses of the global problems of today and tomorrow.
o - USAid
o - United Nations
o - United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime -- UNODC is a global leader in the fight against illicit drugs and international crime. Important publication: World Drug Report.
R
o - United Nations UNHCR
o - WEU
o - Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (Harvard Univ.)
o - World Bank
o - World Trade Organisation
o - Electronic Privacy Information Centre (EPIC) -- ''EPIC is a public interest research center in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1994 to focus public attention on emerging
civil liberties issues and to protect privacy, the First Amendment, and constitutional values. EPIC publishes [...] the EPIC
Alert [cut] reports and even books about privacy, open government, free speech, and other important topics related to civil
liberties.''
o - COOP
o - Ken Davies list
o - Marburg Universitaet
o - Yahoo listing
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Some links about transport in general. Also consider
maps,
airfields,
and ports.
o - Transportation Research Board of the National Academies -- Transportation Research Board.
o - World road statistics -- International Road Federation. ''...first appeared in 1958 and is based on data compiled from official sources within national
statistics offices and national road administrations in up to 196 countries. The WRS contain data on over 100 variables, including
data on road networks, vehicle fleets, road traffic accidents, fuel consumption, and road expenditures''.
o - Department for Transport
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