Information UpdateInformation UpdateNew Tools in GoogleNew Tools in Google

May 2010May 2010

Inbar Yasur

www.hipusit.info

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Google Show optionsGoogle Show options

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Google.com – “Show options”Google.com – “Show options”

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Google.com – “Show options” – Any TimeGoogle.com – “Show options” – Any Time

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Google.com – “Show options” – NearbyGoogle.com – “Show options” – Nearby

Once you click ‘Nearby’ Google will restrict the results just to your local area. You can even adjust the tool to show other areas’ nearby results by entering a custom location.

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Google.com – “Show options” – NearbyGoogle.com – “Show options” – Nearby

[things to do on st. patrick's day] - In the Minneapolis region

[food blogs] - Near you

[farmers market] - Near the city of Ithaca

[dmv] - In the same state as Tucson

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Google.com – “Show options” – Not yet visitedGoogle.com – “Show options” – Not yet visited

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Google.com – “Show options” – TimelineGoogle.com – “Show options” – Timeline

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Google Show options – Timeline view of search resultsGoogle Show options – Timeline view of search results

 

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Google Show options – Timeline view of search resultsGoogle Show options – Timeline view of search results

 

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Google Show options – UpdatesGoogle Show options – Updates

 

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Google.com – “Show options”Google.com – “Show options”

Sites with images / Fewer shopping sites / page previewSites with images / Fewer shopping sites / page preview

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Google NewsGoogle News

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Google NewsGoogle News

news.google.com

Google News now displays the authors of some news stories.

• The author names are clickable, resulting in other stories by the same

reporter.

• The News Advanced Search page added a field for author searches.

• The prefix of a u t h o r : followed by the author's name in quotes can also

be used.

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Google Fast FlipGoogle Fast Flip

http://fastflip.googlelabs.com/

Google Fast Flip is a web application that lets users discover and share news articles.

Combines qualities of print and the Web, with the ability to "flip" through pages online as quickly

as flipping through a magazine.

Enables users to follow friends and topics, discover new content and create their own custom

magazines around searches.

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Google Fast FlipGoogle Fast Flip

http://fastflip.googlelabs.com/

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Google News Browse mode for newspaperGoogle News Browse mode for newspaper

newstimeline.google labs.com

Google has found, indexed, scanned, and made available endless newspaper material for you to

browse (for free of course).

Exactly which papers you can browse is not laid out in perfect terms, but if you are searching for an

article and you see the “Browse This Newspaper” button, you are all set.

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Google News Browse mode for newspaperGoogle News Browse mode for newspaper

news.google.com/

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Google News Quote FinderGoogle News Quote Finder

http://www.news.google.com/

Google News can now detect quotes in news articles and attribute them to their authors.

If you search for people, Google News will display a relevant quote and a link to other quotes from

recent news articles.

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Google News Quote FinderGoogle News Quote Finder

http://news.google.com/

You can search inside the quotes, sort them by date, restrict them to the last day or the last week.

By default, Google sorts the quotes by relevance and gives more weight to the quotes that are used

often.

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VoxaleadVoxalead

http://voxaleadnews.labs.exalead.com/

A technology demonstrator that searches inside multimedia content (audio and video).

Uses a Speech-to-Text transcription module from LIMSI (IT Laboratory for Mechanics and Engineering

Sciences, an entity of CNRS) to transcribe speech

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Google AlertsGoogle Alerts

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Google Alerts – Feed me! – Not just for email anymoreGoogle Alerts – Feed me! – Not just for email anymore

http://www.google.com/alerts

Alerts have been delivered via email only, but those days are over…

Now your News, Web, Blog, Video, and Groups alerts are more easily accessible through feeds.

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Google BlogsGoogle Blogs

http://blogsearch.google.com/

Google Blog Search now has RSS feeds available for its search results along with the older email alerts.

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Google BlogsGoogle Blogs

http://blogsearch.google.com/

The Blog Search front page has also added two new sections on the right side:

Hot Queries shows popular Blog Search queries

Recent Posts features new posts from popular blog

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Google Reader tracks web page changesGoogle Reader tracks web page changes

Google Reader has an option that will allow you to monitor changes to most web pages.

All you need to do is log into Google and open Google Reader, click Add a subscription, and then enter

the URL of the page you want to monitor.

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Tracking changes to web page content – more toolsTracking changes to web page content – more tools

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Google TrendsGoogle Trends

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Google TrendsGoogle Trends

http://www.google.com/trends

Using Google Trends, you can compare search volume patterns across specific regions,

languages, and time periods. Sign in with your Google Account to:

Increase precision

See numbers on the graph for a better understanding of Google Trends data.      

Export data

Easily export data for your own analysis.

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Google Flu TrendsGoogle Flu Trends

http://www.google.org/about/flutrends/how.html

Google has found that certain search terms are good indicators of flu activity.

Google Flu Trends uses aggregated Google search data to estimate current flu activity

around the world in near real-time.

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Google Public Data ExplorerGoogle Public Data Explorer

http://www.google.com/publicdata/home

Google Public Data Explorer is an example of Google taking public data and making it more

intelligible. The data sets include the OECD Factbook, World Bank statistics, US Census

data, and Eurostat tables, among others.

You specify a data range, and Google will generate a line chart, bar chart, map or bubble

chart.

Keeping in mind that much of our added value is in making sense out of information, this

Google tool may be a helpful way of visualizing information for your clients.

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Image SearchImage Search

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Google Images – “show options”Google Images – “show options”

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Google Images – “show options”Google Images – “show options”

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Google Image SwirlGoogle Image Swirl

http://image-swirl.googlelabs.com/

Google Image Swirl combines a variety of image similarity features with additional metadata about the

images to build a hierarchy of clusters of image search result

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Google Image SwirlGoogle Image Swirl

http://image-swirl.googlelabs.com/

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Bing Image SearchBing Image Search

http://www.bing.com/images?FORM=Z9LH

No Page Break – Just keep scrolling down

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Idee MulticolrIdee Multicolr

http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/#

Search for up to 10 colors

No key word searching of content

Flicker Creative commons images

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Google gogglesGoogle goggles

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Google gogglesGoogle goggles

http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/authorsview.authors/cite_alert

Google Goggles lets you search Google using pictures from your camera phones.

Takes an image as input, and using several image recognition backends (object recognition, place

matching, OCR, etc), returns relevant search results.

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TinEyeTinEye

http://www.tineye.com/

TinEye is a reverse image search engine. It finds out where an image came from, how

it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or if there is a higher

resolution version

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Google Scholar Citation GadgetGoogle Scholar Citation Gadget

http://code.google.com/p/citations-gadget/

Enables users to search for the total number of citations of author(s). It provides a total citation count,

total number of cited publications and Jorge E. Hirsch's H-Index..

This gadget queries Google Scholar in the same fashion as a web-browser.

The returned results are initially analysed for the total amount of publications found. This information is

subsequently used in order to retrieve all necessary pages of available publications. The gadget then

fetches these pages (Google limits this to 10 pages) and parses the returned HTML data. Relevant

citation data is extracted in order to calculate a total number of citations per given author as well as

other statistics

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Google ChromeGoogle Chrome

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Google Chrome – missing featuresGoogle Chrome – missing features

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/

Search within a site Highlight keyword

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Google Chrome ExtensionsGoogle Chrome Extensions

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Google Chrome ExtensionsGoogle Chrome Extensions

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/

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Google Similar PagesGoogle Similar Pages

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/pjnfggphgdjblhfjaphkjhfpiiekbbej

Allows you to quickly preview and explore other pages that are similar to the one you are browsing --

on the fly!

When you click the Similar Pages button, your browser will send a search query to Google to see if

there are any similar pages to the page you are viewing.

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Google Similar PagesGoogle Similar Pages

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SimilarSiteSearchSimilarSiteSearch

http://www.similarsitesearch.com/

This site is mainly designed to help you find similar, related, or alternative websites

Collects and combines information about websites from many sources.

The search engine generates a list of websites based on the similarity of tags and categories.

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Google TranslateGoogle Translate

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/aapbdbdomjkkjkaonfhkkikfgjllcleb

Adds a button to your browser toolbar to click whenever you want to translate the page you're visiting.

The extension also automatically detects if the language of a page you're on is different from the

language you're using for your Google Chrome interface.

If it is, a banner appears at the top of the page.

Click Translate to have all the text on the page appear in the new language.

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RSS Subscription ExtensionRSS Subscription Extension

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/nlbjncdgjeocebhnmkbbbdekmmmcbfjd

This extension displays an icon whenever you're on a page that can be subsribed to in an RSS feed

reader.

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IE TABIE TAB

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/nlbjncdgjeocebhnmkbbbdekmmmcbfjd

Use Internet Explorer to display web pages in a Chrome tab.

Some sites can only be displayed using IE, and with this extension you can now see those sites without

leaving Chrome.

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Google dictionaryGoogle dictionary

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/mgijmajocgfcbeboacabfgobmjgjcoja

Double-click any word to view its definition in a small pop-up bubble.

View the complete definition of any word or phrase using the address bar dictionary.

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Explain and Send ScreenshotsExplain and Send Screenshots

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/mdddabjhelpilpnpgondfmehhcplpiin?hl=en-US

Capture any part of a webpage, explain it with arrows, circles, text, just like Snagit and share

or send it as a link or attachment

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ViewThru: Expand Short URLs In Google ChromeViewThru: Expand Short URLs In Google Chrome

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/jkncfnbcgbclefkbknfdbngiegdppgdd?hl=en

This extension will expand short URLs and display the full URL as a tool tip over the short URL.

Short URLs from bit.ly, cli.gs, ff.im, goo.gl, is.gd, nyti.ms, ow.ly, post.ly, su.pr and tinyurl.com are

supported.

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Google “Dashboard”Google “Dashboard”

https://www.google.com/dashboard/?pli=1

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Personalized Search: Turning off personalizationPersonalized Search: Turning off personalization

Signed in searches

To disable history-based search customizations while signed in, you'll need to remove Web History from

your Google Account.

You can also choose to remove individual items.

Note that removing this service deletes all your old searches from Web History.

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Personalized Search: Turning off personalizationPersonalized Search: Turning off personalization

Signed out searches

If you aren't signed in to a Google Account, your search experience will be customized based on past

search information linked to a cookie on your browser.

To disable history-based customizations, follow these steps:

In the top right corner of the search results page, click Web History.

On the resulting page, click Disable customizations. (Because this preference is stored in a

cookie, it will affect anyone else who uses the same browser and computer as you).

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Google PlacesGoogle Places

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