search engine – Citations by Questia http://blog.questia.com Research paper tips from Questia Fri, 19 May 2017 16:24:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.9 Take Searches Up a Notch http://blog.questia.com/2010/12/take-searches-up-a-notch/ http://blog.questia.com/2010/12/take-searches-up-a-notch/#comments Sun, 05 Dec 2010 20:50:04 +0000 http://blog.questia.com/?p=292 Traditional search methods don’t always work effectively. When you’re disappointed with the results you’re getting, Barbara G. Friedman, author of Web Search Savvy: Strategies and Shortcuts for Online Research (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005), 60, suggests trying some of the alternative approaches in her checklist of Tips for Smart Searchers.

  • Use your knowledge of domain names to narrow a search or to go straight to an organization’s site.
  • Trace a site back to its source whenever possible.
  • Use syntax searches to narrow a search and filter out unwanted sites.
  • Use specialty searches for image and audio files.
  • When searching for information in a foreign language, take advantage of native language search engines and directories.
  • When your search is for a range of sites on a particular topic, a guided search such as the kind offered by About.com, will save time.
  • Search by file type.

Meta searchers get better all the time, allowing you to search across many engines and directories. If you opt for a meta search, choose one that allows you to control what engines and directories it queries, and how to display results.

Use your browser’s bookmarking function to save sites you may want to return to later. If the content of the site is critical, save it onto a disk, or to your computer’s hard drive. Take advantage of archive projects like the Wayback Machine to find sites that have changed, moved, or been removed from the Web.

Know the Web’s limits and use the library when appropriate.


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Search Engines You Should (But Probably Don’t) Know http://blog.questia.com/2010/10/search-engines-you-should-but-probably-dont-know/ http://blog.questia.com/2010/10/search-engines-you-should-but-probably-dont-know/#respond Sun, 10 Oct 2010 19:18:24 +0000 http://blog.questia.com/?p=383 “Ask anyone which search engine they use to find information on the Internet and they will almost certainly reply: ‘Google,’” says Charles S. Knight, Search Engine Optimizer and editor of AllSearchEngines. “Look a little further, and market research shows that people actually use four main search engines for 99.99% of their searches: Google, Yahoo!, MSN, and Ask.com (in that order). But in my travels as a Search Engine Optimizer (SEO), I have discovered that in that .01% lies a vast multitude of the most innovative and creative search engines you have never seen. So many, in fact, that I have had to limit my list of the very best ones to a mere 100.”

In fact, Knight’s ReadWriteWeb article The Top 100 Alternative Search Engines includes a wealth of information about search engines and how different kinds of search engines – like clustering, recommendation, and Metasearch engines – work.

At the end of the article, Knight provides a fascinating list which includes search engines like blinkx, factbites, mnemomap, WEBBRAIN, and 96 others.  Please note that the list was compiled in 2007. Some of the search engines he identifies have changed (clusty is now Yippy, and Singing FISH is now AOL Video), and a few have faded into oblivion. But you’ll find plenty of functional search engines to check out.

Add The Top 100 Alternative Search Engines to your online research toolkit.

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