15 Online Tools that You Will Come to Love as a Tech - TheTechMentor.com I have compiled a list of 15 free online tools that will help you greatly as a tech. I’m sure that there are other good ones that I have left out so please feel free to post the ones that you like as well. IPTools offers a wide variety of online networking tools. With this site you can look up IP address information, check spam databases, run pings, run traceroutes, lookup WHOIS information and much more. BugMeNot allows you to find and share logins for sites that require you to register. SpeedTest.net allows you to test your Internet connection speed. Del.icio.us is a social bookmarking site that allows you to bookmark sites and view them from any computer. Omnidrive is an online storage service that allows you to upload large files, access them from any computer, and share them with other people. 10 Minute Mail allows you to create temporary email addresses that expire after 10 minutes. Free Password GeneratorFree Password Generator generates very strong and unique passwords.
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100 Useful Tips and Tools to Research the Deep Web By Alisa Miller Experts say that typical search engines like Yahoo! and Google only pick up about 1% of the information available on the Internet. The rest of that information is considered to be hidden in the deep web, also referred to as the invisible web. Meta-Search Engines Meta-search engines use the resources of many different search engines to gather the most results possible. SurfWax. Semantic Search Tools and Databases Semantic search tools depend on replicating the way the human brain thinks and categorizes information to ensure more relevant searches. Hakia. General Search Engines and Databases These databases and search engines for databases will provide information from places on the Internet most typical search engines cannot. DeepDyve. Academic Search Engines and Databases The world of academia has many databases not accessible by Google and Yahoo! Google Scholar. Scientific Search Engines and Databases Science.gov. Custom Search Engines CustomSearchEngine.com. Del.icio.us.
Blind Search More super-searcher tips | The Reluctant Entrepreneur It’s the beginning of conference season for us public speakers… along with the daffodils appear boarding passes and PowerPoint slides. One of my favorite conferences is Computers in Libraries, and I will be leading the Searcher Academy pre-conference workshop as well as giving a regular presentation on super searcher tips. I have more tips than I could fit into a blog post; here are a few of my favorites that I will be sharing at Computers in Libraries: * All of us consider ourselves to be above-average Google searchers. * How you word your search matters – a lot! *Use MillionShort.com if you are researching an obscure topic, an individual, or looking for any kind of long-tail resource. You can see some of my prior super-searcher tips here and here. Like this: Like Loading...
Google Ultimate Interface About Google In 1996-1997, Larry Page and Sergey Brin came up with an algorithm to rank web pages, called PageRank. Realizing the potential to improve search engines, they tried and failed to sell the technology to any. So they founded Google, which in an incredibly short period of time has become one of the world’s most powerful companies. While primarily known as a search engine, Google now makes a wide variety of web-based and other software and is known for investing in wide-ranging projects outside their core such as through their philanthropic arm, Google.org. Their products are available in almost every country and in a very large number of languages. Google’s enourmously successful advertising business accounts for almost all of their revenue and allows Google to subsidize many other ideas. Google is a market and quality leader in web search, online maps, online video (through YouTube), and areas. Alternatives to Google Why not use nothing but Google all the time?
Social Media Search: 7 Super Tools for Searching Social Media If you ever tried to do social media search using social media platforms, you probably found that the results are often not great. But there are tools that can help. In this post, I’ll introduce you to seven tools that will help you find more detailed and accurate information on social media related to your business or anything else that interests you. 1. When you go to Social Searcher you’ll see a search box similar to the following. When you enter your keywords in Social Searcher, the tool will return results for mentions across all major social networks, including Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Instagram, and Tumblr. You can choose to sort results by Date or Popularity, and also use filters to narrow your search results by Sentiment, Post Types, and Social Networks. 2. We recently did a post on using Google Advanced Search for Blog Research. Some of these commands can also be used to search social platforms. Looking for a Facebook page using Facebook search can be quite frustrating. 3. 4.