1. 1 30 Tips in 45 Minutes Mary Ellen Bates Bates Information Services mbates@BatesInfo.com

2. 2 1. Simply Google  Excellent overview site of all Google's features and sites, downloads, blogs  www.usabilityviews.com/ simply_google.htm

3. 3 2. AskX.com  New interface for Ask.com  Good clustering  Highlights Wikipedia  Images, news items, blogs, etc. highlighted

4. 4 3. Search The Web 2.0  Lets you narrow the search using popular terms (trendy) or obscure terms (long tail)  Overlay on Google search engine  www.searchtheweb2.com

5. 5 4. Google Search History  Limit your search to what you've searched before  Is Google Big Brother?  google.com/searchhistory

6. 6 5. Consider the Q&A services  answers.yahoo.com  qna.live.com  askville.ask.com  linkedin.com/answers Use with caution!

7. 7 6. Use search engines' quick-answer feature  Ask.com's Smart Answers  Google's OneBox  Yahoo's Shortcuts  MSN's Instant Answers

8. 8 7. Squidoo  Hybrid of a web page, interactive poll, Flickr-like photos, notes from readers, and a blog  Great way to share resources with colleagues

9. 9 8. Build customized search engine  Rollyo.com  Yahoo Search Builder  Google Co-Coop  Live.com's Macros  Gigablast's Custom Topic Search

10. 10 9. Yahoo's Search Subscriptions  Non-subscribers can search Factiva, LexisNexis, Wall Street Journal, Forrester, IEEE, FT.com, etc.  Pay with credit card  Limited versions of some databases  search.yahoo.com/subscriptions

11. 11 10. Kosmix.com  Vertical search engine on steroids  Excellent clustering Health, Video games, Finance, Travel, US politics, Autos

12. 12 11. NationMaster.com  Source for national stats  Cool tool for presenting graphical info  Data from WHO, World Bank, CIA World Factbook, World Resources Institute, UNESCO, OECD, etc.

13. 13 12. Use Yahoo's Mindset feature  mindset.research.yahoo.com  Are you researching or shopping?

14. 14 13. MSN's cool synonym-suggestion tool  Intended for helping search engine advertisers identify similar words and common misspellings  snurl.com/zqyd

15. 15 14. MSN's misspelling-suggestion engine  snurl.com/zqyl

16. 16 15. Consider 37signals.com  Great collaborative resources  Project management, to-do lists, file sharing, time slips, etc.

17. 17 16. Ask's maps  Both driving and walking directions  Takes local topography into account  maps.ask.com

18. 18 17. Use Exalead's NEAR/n operator  (solar OR sun) NEAR/3 power

19. 19 18. Live Academic search  Great search results page  Sort options  Slider bar for verbosity  Endless scroll of results! academic.live.com

20. 20 19. Compare search engines  CompareSearchEngines.dogpile.com  jux2  ranking.thumbshots.com  TwinGine.com  YahooGoogleMSN.com

21. 21 20. Data visualization arrives to the value- added online services  Factiva's Discovery Pane in Search 2.0

22. 22 21. TouchGraph  Finds relationships among URLs Uses Google's "Similar pages" function  Finds related books in Amazon Uses subject terms

23. 23 22. Gigablast  Limit to multiple sites  Gigabits clustering  Extremely cool complex search and ranking tools (see Help file for syntax)

24. 24 23. Snap Search  Easy to navigate  Visual search results  Can interact with site within Snap  Based on Gigablast  snap.com

25. 25 24. GooFresh  Limits Google search to only sites recently added or updated in the index  Great for doing repeated searches!  Props to Tara Calishain  www.researchbuzz.org/2003/09/ goofresh.shtml

26. 26 25. Check out podcast lectures from  Yale  Princeton  UC Berkeley  Stanford  Johns Hopkins

27. 27 26. SearchMash  Unbranded Google site  Cool interface  Results sorted by web page, images, blogs, videos, Wikipedia  Infinite scroll

28. 28 27. Google's Topic Search  Health, Destination Guides, etc.  Info pros can contribute  www.google.com/coop/topics/?show=all

29. 29 28. PageBull  Metasearch tool  Entirely visual  Good for right-brained searchers

30. 30 29. Watch Google's Librarian Center  Blog, newsletter, teaching tools  Tips of the Trade  librariancentral.blogspot.com

31. 31 30. OneLook  Reverse dictionary!  Better than a thesaurus!  onelook.com/reverse-dictionary.shtml

32. 32 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

33. 33 Mary Ellen Bates Bates Information Services www.BatesInfo.com mbates@BatesInfo.com 303.772.7095