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: [...]

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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: [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 Search Engine News 01:27 Slashdot Posting on Sciencehack 01:48 Sciencehack: A Video Search Engine for Science 02:12 Research Buzz on [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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I recently gave a talk at the Association of Independent Information Professionals (AIIP) conference on using bookmarklets. I recorded the audio and decided to put that together with the slide presentation to form a screencast. Here’s the description from the conference brochure. Using Bookmarklets to Improve You Web Browsing Efficiency In this session, learn how to [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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