Blog Posts, Articles, and Reports To Read: September 2012

• “In Colleges’ Rush to Try MOOC’s, Faculty Are Not Always in the Conversation“
• “How Search & Social Engines Are Using Semantic Search“
• “PowerPoint: Create an Infographic“

Blog Posts, Articles, and Reports To Read: April 2011

• “Exploring the evolution of search engines and the effect on education“
• “A practical guide to creating learning screencasts: part 1“
• “Blogs, Self-publishing and E-books“
• “Research Skills: The Video Game“
• “7 Things You Should Know About Open Textbook Publishing“
• “8Ws of Information Inquiry“
• “10 Awesome Free Tools To Make Infographics“

Resources for Keeping Up to Date on Internet Research

I subscribe to RSS feeds from the following sites to keep up with the latest news about internet research:

• Beyond Search
• Federated Search Blog
• Internet News
• Internet Search Challenge
• Pandia Search Engine News
• Phil Bradley’s weblog
• ResearchBuzz
• ResourceBlog
• SearchCowboys.com
• Search Engine Journal
• Search Engine Land
• Search Engine Roundtable
• Search Engine Showdown
• WebProNews

Blog Posts, Articles, and Reports To Read: September 3, 2010

Reading for this week:

• “Ten Items All Should Know When Using Google Basic Search…. Far From Basic!“
• “Top 25 Social Media Keyword Search Tools“
• “The Future of Internet Search“
• “Are all Results on Search Engines Equal? A Surprising Journey Within the SERPs“

Lists of Search Engines

In addition to my own list (here), I’ve run across the following lists of search engines (and other internet research tools):

• Search Engine List (Did you know there were more than two hundred?)
• Wikipedia: Category:Internet search engines
• Wikipedia: List of academic databases and search engines
• Freebase: Search Engines
• Pandia Powersearch: All-in-One List of Search Engines and Directories
• Academic and Scholar Search Engines and Sources

Are there any other lists I should include?

Wish List for Zakta

On Friday, I talked to a woman who is doing PR/marketing for Zakta.  She and the founder had read here about my using Zakta in my classes.  She wanted to know about my experience using Zakta and what I would like to see changed about or added to Zakta.  Here is my wish list:

• ability to use Boolean and search engine operators in search
• advanced search
• results in References from more credible sources than Wikipedia (perhaps from dictionaries and thesauruses as well as encyclopedia)
• real-time results from social media (Twitter, etc.)
• ability to post search results to Delicious, Diigo, Twitter, etc. (as can already be done with guides)
• ability to post guides to WordPress blogs
• help videos
• RSS feeds for search results and guides
• e-mail and RSS alerts (like Google)
• cached and similar results (like Google)
• thumbnails views of results

Google Alerts

I’ve been testing Google alerts the last few months using the phrase “4R x T.”  I think I’ve gotten most of my blog posts back in the alerts, along with some other links.  The problem with Google alerts is the same problem that Google has:  You get too many results to be useful unless you narrow your search dramatically.

Results of Google Alerts Test 12-28-09

Google Blogs Alert for: “4R x T”

Results of Google Alerts Test 12-21-09 « 4R x T By Elizabeth Results of Google Alerts Test 12-14-09 « 4R x T (via AlertRank.com) Dec 14, 2009 … The smarter way to use Google Alerts to monitor and rank blog buzz! AlertRank is a professional, powerful, yet low-cost online blog … … 4R x T – http://4rxt.wordpress.com/

Star Trek: A Singular Destiny by Keith R. A. DeCandido « 4R x T By Elizabeth 4RxT: links for 2009-12-23 – ACLS Humanities E-Book: Home Page Humanities E-Book is a digital collection of 2200 f… http://ow.ly/16cOQP 19 hours ago; 4RxT: Results of Google Alerts Test 12-21-09 – Google Web Alert for: “4R x T” 08 … 4R x T – http://4rxt.wordpress.com/

Google Web Alert for: “4R x T”

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The Mask of Atreus by A. J. Hartley « 4R x T The Mask of Atreus (New York:Â Berkley-Penguin Group, 2006) is the first novel by AJ Hartley, the British-born Distinguished Professor of Shakespeare at the …

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Technology « 4R X T Elizabeth wrote 2 weeks ago: Google Blogs Alert for: “4R x T” The Sword of the Templars by Paul Christopher « 4R x T … more → Tags: Research, technology, …

Results of Google Alerts Test 12-21-09

Google Web Alert for: “4R x T”

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Results of Google Alerts Test 12-14-09

Google Blogs Alert for: “4R x T”

My Students’ Twines « 4R x T By Elizabeth 4RxT: Links for 2009-12-09 [delicious.com] – nowGoogle.com Multiple Search Engine (tags: metacrawler research) Mi… http://ow.ly/167U7w 17 hours ago; 4RxT: Results of Google Alerts Test 12-7-09 – Google Blogs Alert for: “4R x T” The … 4R x T – http://4rxt.wordpress.com/

My Students’ Squidoo Lenses « 4R x T My Students’ Squidoo Lenses « 4R x T. Posted by. December 11, 2009. My ENG 1020 students at Metro had an option for earning extra credit by creating a Squidoo lens for their research topic. Several of them took advantage of the … The Ultimate Internet Marketing… – http://www.seminargator.com/

Google Web Alert for: “4R x T”

My Students’ Squidoo Lenses « 4R x T Dec 11, 2009 … Test 12-7-09 – Google Blogs Alert for: “4R x T” The Doomsday Key … “4R x T ” The Sword of the Templars by Pa… http://ow.ly/166nrY 1 …

Twitter / Elizabeth Clark: 4RxT: Results of Google Al … Nov 16, 2009 … 4RxT: Results of Google Alerts Test 11-16-09 – Google Web Alert for: 4R x T The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown « 4R x… http://ow.ly/162Bln.

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Squidoo Social Bookmark Traffic | Cargo Networking Dec 11, 2009 … Wooot – the author visited my book review Squidoo lens: Wannabe a … My Students’ Squidoo Lenses « 4R x T …

Blogs Tagged As Makalah Last Week Topofblogs | A Digital Review … The Last Oracle by James Rollins « 4R x T By Elizabeth Results of Google Alerts Test 10-26-09 – Google Blogs Kumpulan Contoh Makalah Skripsi Tesis tentang …