Search Science

Filght/Airplane Search

2006-08-03T14:57:00.000-07:00

FLIGHT STATS:

FlightStats platform delivers real-time
and historical flight information
that lowers travel-related costs
and improves the travel experience.
Click for FLIGHT STATS

FLIGHT AWARE

FlightAware is a free flight tracker
that will change what you think about
live flight tracking and aviation data.
click for FLIGHT AWARE

WEB FLYER

Here you'll find details of all the major
airline frequent flyer programs,
including comparison tools, current
promotions and other useful information.
Click for Web Flyer

SEAT GURU

SeatGuru.com employs a powerful
combination of features to successfully
convey highly detailed seat and
aircraft information.

Detailed seat map graphics.

In-depth seat specific comments and
observations.

Color-coding to help identify
superior and substandard
seats.

Seat Pitch and Seat Width
measurementsfor all classes
of service.

Amenity icons to denote in-flight services
such as laptop power,
audio/video entertainment
and beverage and food service.
Click for Seat Guru

VERNACULAR expand/narrow searches

2006-07-31T18:29:00.001-07:00

Search Engines that suggest additional words
for your search:

--YAHOO
Click Here For YAHOO
After a query under the search box is "Also Try"........

--TEOMA
Click Here For TEOMA
After a query to the right of the page is "Narrow your Search"
and "Expand your Search"

WEBSITES TO HELP HONE IN ON THE VERNACULAR:

------TECH WEB ENCYCLOPEDIA

Click Here For TECH WEB
technical terms

------LAW.COM

Click Here For LAW.COM
Lawyer, Law terminology

------MEDICAL TERMS

Click Here For MED TERMS
medical terms

------THE GLOSSARIST

Click Here For GLOSSARIST
Do general searches here

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-- Domain Search in Google --------

site:org

Site.org would be oriented towards research and support
of people with medical conditions, for the most part.
here is a example of a search:

site:org jogging impact
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site.edu

This would be academic, web pages which
are affiliated with colleges and schools.
so this may be good for research also.
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site:com

Here is all, everything in this domain .com

also there is
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site:gov

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Here is a interesting chart showing the
relationships between Search Engines,
Click for SEARCH CHART
Move Cursor Over Icons To See Relationships.

As you can see the Open Directory is a big player here:
Click for OPEN DIRECTORY
The Open Directory is a human edited directory,
meaning that all sites listed in the directory are reviewed by human editors.
Open Directory best resembles a vast reference library where information
is arranged hierarchically by subject from broad to specific detail.
Maintained by human volunteers who act as experts to evaluate
what sites are accepted and which are excluded.

Yahoo is also a directory Google is not:

Google spiders the web to maintain its index,
with emphasis on content and link popularity.
One factor that determines your rank on Google is the number of links
that point to your site, the quality (popularity) of the sites that link to your site,
the text in and around the links that point to your site, and who you link to.
Google's web crawler only views the visible text on your page.

SEARCH ENGINES AND DIRECTORIES are
the two most widely used tools for
searching the internet.
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ALL THE WEB.COM
is owned by Yahoo and shows the exact same results
as Yahoo minus the bells and whistles
Click For ALLtheWEB

Soople: Googles advanced seaches + scoogle.com

2006-07-22T10:14:00.000-07:00

Click Here For SOOPLE

Below is info from the soople site:
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Soople-easy expert search-

Soople is an early English dialect,
which means 'to soften, make supple'.

a site that softens all the
fantastic advanced functions Google offers.
This site is meant for all those
who are not yet familiar
with all the possibilities of Google and all the
required syntaxes.

For instance, one can specify a search by
one particuliar site or filetype
( word, excel, powerpoint and pdf) or an
imagesearch by size and type.

Furthermore there are many useful tools Google offers;
search in the latest news, look up
definitions or use Google as a phonebook.

And last but not least, the Calculator.
This amazing tool let's you do all kind of
(very advanced) calculations.
Soople has added the unit-converter,
which is based on this calculator,
for the conversion of all the
commmon units/measures (meters<--->yards).
Quite supple, if you ask me.

Have a lot of Google-fun
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Click Here for SCROOGLE

Have you heard of Scroogle? This is a search interface --
created by the non-profit org google-watch.
Put in your search term into the
"google scraper" (there's also one available for yahoo!),
scroogle searches google, and returns google results
WITHOUT ads,
WITHOUT cookies and WITHOUT search term records
(their access log is deleted within
48 hours whereas google keeps this information FOREVER!).

Check it out!

As a side note, there's been a lot of talk lately about google and
the ethics of their aiding in Chinese censorship.
See the boingboing story for more background.

Click Here for STORY

Since 2000, Google has recorded your search terms,
the date-time of each search,
the globally-unique ID in your cookie (it expires in 2038),
and your IP address.
This information is available to governments on request.
(From the Scroogle Web site)

"Just because you are paranoid does not
mean they are not out to get you!"
-Abbie Hoffman 60's activist

New Google tricks

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Google Searches
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Phrases can be grouped with quotations, like this:

"Bunker Hill Monument"

you can also use parenthesis
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Putting a + in front of the word means it will be added to the search results

"George Washington" +history +bio

Putting a - in front of the word means it will be removed to the search results

"George Washington" -carver

You would get no George Washington Carvers

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This symbol (|) means OR

so a search could be:

cars (Ford|Chevy)

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Google will take up to ten words so
you can really narrow in
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In google the wildcard is *
you can use this in a phrase
if there is a word you can not remember
Like:

"The * * of Christmas"
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Looking for sizes try this:

Nike Sneakers size 8..11

this will give sizes 8, 9, 10 11
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With dollars,

digital camera 3..5 megapixel $500..1000

this gives you cameras from 500 to 1000

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The Google synonym operator
the tilde (~)

try putting in

~ape

you get,

gorilla
monkey
chimp

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Other google syntax for narrowing searches

define w/ semi colon is Dictionary

define:

To find something related,...

related:

to find filetype,

filetype:

And Phonebook to look up numbers,

phonebook:
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if you know the domain
looking for computers,
search only the Dell site

site:Dell.com
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Next just what it says,
In the Web pages title

intitle:Dining
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Also there is,

intext:cheeseburger
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put them together, this is a real general search
but,......

intitle:dining intext:cheeseburger
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There is also

inurl:

inanchor:

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Here is a combination:

intitle:search intitle:records .gov

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