1. Alternative & Customized Search Engines Mary Ellen Bates Bates Information Services mbates@BatesInfo.com

2. 2 What we'll cover: Beyond the Big 3.5 Specialized search tools DIY search engines

3. 3 Beyond the Big 3.5

4. 4 Exalead Great advanced search tools Excellent tool for complex searching Customizable front page; add "short- cuts" to other finding tools www.exalead.com

5. 5 Quintura Data viz with clustering Useful for disambiguation, determining topics within a concept Uses Yahoo search engine www.quintura.com

6. 6 Kosmix Clusters by type and topic! Includes "overview" page – great summary Still very beta www.kosmix.com

7. 7 Clusty Meta-search engine –"Details" tab shows what was searched Builds clusters on the fly Few advanced features Can insert topic clouds on your site –cloud.clusty.com clusty.com

8. 8 Specialized Search Tools

9. 9 CrossEngine Easy comparison of search results NOT a meta-search engine Well-organized finding tool Useful if you don't know where to start www.crossengine.com

10. 10 SRCHR Similar to CrossEngine, but creates RSS feeds for search results Mouseover for thumbnails Can create your own page of search tools! www.srchr.com

11. 11 Scandoo Searches Google, Yahoo, MSN or Ask Checks for malware, phishing, offensive content, in real time Powered by corporate web security company www.scandoo.com

12. 12 DIY Search Engines

13. 13 What's a custom search engine? You filter the search, limit to certain domains or sites, or tweak the relevance ranking Put the library's imprimatur on search results Out-google Google –www.BatesInfo.com/test.html

14. 14 Yahoo Search Builder Can limit search by domain, append key terms or exclude sites or terms Shows tag cloud of search terms Very customizable –Include your library's logo builder.search.yahoo.com

15. 15 Google Co-op Can limit by domain Can specify domains to be higher ranked Requires at least one keyword. Use a noise word (e.g. and ) www.google.com/coop/cse/

16. 16 Swicki Collaborative approach to filtering You supply initial key words It learns from click-throughs on SRPs –Modifies relevance ranking swicki.eurekster.com

17. 17 Rollyo Max of 25 web sites Can see others' "searchrolls" –E.g., KM-related topics at snurl.com/16x8o www.rollyo.com

18. 18 Gigablast CTS Fairly rudimentary Specify domains to search www.gigablast.com/cts.html # # #

19. 19 Mary Ellen offers two free email bulletins: “Search Tip of the Month” and "Info-Entrepreneur Tip of the Month" If you would like to subscribe to either, just ask ( mbates@BatesInfo.com ) Also, check out her blog at LibrarianOfFortune.com

20. 20 Mary Ellen Bates Bates Information Services www.BatesInfo.com mbates@BatesInfo.com 303.772.7095