So I’ve mentioned here and there that I’m putting together a toolkit for Recruiters – a dynamic reference for Online searches, social networking, blogging guide, etc. If you were on my team you’d know that I store many of these items on a centralized and shared server for all to reference. One of the documents I’m working on is a listing of search engines that I use and what the functionality or specialty is of each.
A few days ago I received an email from a reader of RecruiterGuy.net (Thanks, EngineAddict!) that had quite a few additions and a format that was favorable to what I’d done so far so I thought I’d share. If anyone has any updates or additions or recognizes some of this as a listing from elsewhere (I suspect some was a copy and paste) please let me know. The goal is of course to give credit where credit is due while maintaining a great reference sheet. I’ll be honest, though – I only had about 2/3 of these in my workbook so far as I was only including those I use pretty regularly… This listing is a bit more comprehensive, hence my wanting to share.
I’ll be working to move some of these that are more popular (according RecruiterGuy.net site analytics) to static pages and into more of an online workbook format. For now, however – I just wanted to share them before I put them on a shelf to do later. So without further ramblings…
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FIELDS AND FILE TYPES |
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If you want to search for… |
Choose… |
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Audio/Music |
AllTheWeb | AltaVista | Dogpile | Fazzle | FindSounds.com | Lycos Music | Lycos Multimedia Search | Singingfish | Soundsnap |
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Date last modified |
AllTheWeb Advanced Search | AltaVista Advanced Web Search | Ask.com Advanced SearchExalead Advanced Search | Google Advanced Search | Yahoo Advanced Web Search |
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Domain/Site/URL |
AllTheWeb Advanced Search | AltaVista Advanced Web Search | AOL Advanced Search | Ask.com Advanced Search | Google Advanced Search | MSN Search Search Builder | SearchEdu.com | WhoNu | Yahoo Advanced Web Search |
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File Format |
AllTheWeb Advanced Web Search | AltaVista Advanced Web Search | AOL Advanced SearchExalead Advanced Search | WhoNu | Yahoo Advanced Web Search | |
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Geographic location |
Ask.com Advanced Search | Exalead Advanced Search | Lycos Advanced Search | Yahoo Advanced Web Search |
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Images |
AllTheWeb | AltaVista | Ask.com Images | Dogpile | Fazzle | Google Image Search | IceRocket | Ixquick | Mamma | Picsearch | Pixsy | Retrivr | Snap | Tiltomo | WhoNu |
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Language |
AllTheWeb Advanced Web Search | AOL Advanced Search | Ask.com Advanced Search | Exalead Advanced Search | Google Language Tools | iBoogie Advanced Web Search | Yahoo Advanced Web Search |
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Multimedia & video |
All TheWeb | AltaVista | Blinx | ClipBlast | Dogpile | Fazzle | Search For Video | SingingfishYahoo Video Search | Zuula | |
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Page Title/URL |
AOL Advanced Search | Fazzle | Google Advanced Search | Yahoo Advanced Web Search |
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SEARCH LOGIC |
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If you want to use… |
Choose… |
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Boolean operators |
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Full Boolean logic with parentheses |
AlltheWeb Advanced Search | AltaVista Advanced Web Search | Exalead | Ixquick | Live Search |
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Implied Boolean +/- |
Most search engines offer this option |
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Boolean logic using search form terminology |
Most advanced search options offer this, including: |
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Proximity searching |
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SEARCH OPTIONS |
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If you want.. |
Choose… |
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Alternative search terms |
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A user fill-in search form |
Many search engines offer this, including: |
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Search for documents similar to those in existing results |
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Truncation |
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Live human guides |
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Your search stated in plain English |
Ask.com | Brainboost | Hakia | Ixquick | Live Search |
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Translation of pages retrieved as search results, or any text or Web page, to and from selected languages |
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An exact phrase within quotations |
Most search engines offer this option |
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An exact phrase from a template choice |
Many search templates offer this. For example: AllTheWeb Advanced Search | AltaVista Advanced Web Search | Fazzle | Google Advanced Search | IceRocket Advanced Search |
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Multiple search tools searched simultaneously with duplicate records removed |
Chubba | Clusty | Copernic | Don Busca | Fazzle | FindForward | Ixquick | Mamma | Query Server | SurfWax | Yooci |
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SEARCH RESULTS |
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If you want… |
Choose… |
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Results based on linking, i.e., number of links from highly rated Web pages |
A9 | Alexa Web Search | AltaVista | Ask.com | Google | Google Web Directory |
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Results clustered by concept and/or type of site (often laid out as a “horizontal” list of topics in addition to a single vertical list of results) |
Ask.com | Clusty | Don Busca | Exalead | iBoogie | metaEUREEKA | Kartoo | KillerInfo | KoolTorch | Mooter | Quintura | Search.com | Ujiko |
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Results influenced by searcher behavavior or ratings |
Eurekster Swicki | Sproose | Trexy | URL.com |
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Option to search on related topics |
AllTheWeb | Dogpile | Factbites | Search.com | WhoNu |
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Results in graphical/visual format |
Kartoo | KoolTorch | Mnemomap | Mooter | Quintura | Ujiko | Webbrain |
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Results with thumbnail images of retrieved sites |
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Search alerts |
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Queries stored by the search service for repeat searches |
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Search results appear as you type |
Google Suggest | Slurk | Snap | SurfWax LookAhead (RSS feeds) |
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SPECIALTY SEARCHES |
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If you want to search… |
Choose… |
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The Deep Web (not generally covered by search spiders) |
Visit a topic-specific engine, e.g., PubMed, or try to locate one using a general search engine. |
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Blogs |
Ask.com | Bloglines | BlogPulse | Clusty | Globe of Blogs | Google Blog Search | IceRocketKeotag | Sphere | Technorati | WhoNu | Yahoo News Search | Zuula | |
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Files in FTP sites (text, multimedia, software, etc.) |
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Library materials |
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News (multiple sources searched simultaneously) |
AlltheWeb: News | AltaVista – News | Congoo News | FindNews.org | Google News Alerts | InfoGrid | NewsNow | Pandia Newsfinder | RocketNews | SurfWax News Accumulator | Topix.com | The WorldNews Network |
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Podcasts |
Big Think | Pluggd | Podanza | Podcast Search Service | PODZINGER | UChannelWhoNu | Yahoo Podcasts |
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RSS feeds |
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Saved Web pages |
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Scholarly materials, e.g,. books, articles, etc. |
Google Book Search | Google Scholar | Live Search Books | Windows Live Search Academic |
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Search trails, e.g., paths taken from search results to selected pages |
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Site analysis |
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Usenet newsgroup postings |
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Web events |
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Your own customized search engine |
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Reference sources (dictionaries, encyclopedias, e-mail and address lookups, calculators, quotations, news, government info, statistics etc.) |
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Professionally maintained directories |
About | Academic Info | BUBL LINK | INFOMINE | Librarians’ Internet Index | Intute | The Scout Archives | Virtual Learning Resources Center | more… |
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Directories maintained by volunteers |
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