GOOGLE-BASED RESEARCH TOOLS
PART I: GETTING STARTED WITH GOOGLE RESEARCH SEARCHING THE WEB WITH GOOGLE SEARCHING USING GOOGLE’S RULES SEARCHING FOR WORDS, NOT MEANING EFFECTIVELY SEARCHING REFINING YOUR SEARCH NUMBER SEARCHES GOOGLE SHORTCUTS GETTING LOCAL INFORMATION MINING GOOGLE FOR INFORMATION USING GOOGLE EFFICIENTLY WITH THE GOOGLE TOOLBAR DOWNLOADING AND INSTALLING THE GOOGLE TOOLBAR GETTING TO KNOW ALL THE PARTS OF THE GOOGLE TOOLBAR SETTING GOOGLE TOOLBAR OPTIONS VALIDATING RESULTS ON THE WEB COMPARING GOOGLE WITH OTHER SEARCH ENGINES PRIMARY SOURCE SEARCH ENGINES META-SEARCH ENGINES INTRODUCING SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION KNOWING YOUR AUDIENCE REFINING RESEARCH QUESTIONS PRESENTING RESEARCH RESULTS WRITING SOFTWARE THAT USES GOOGLE SCRIPTING INTRODUCING THE DESKBAR PROGRAMMING THE DESKBAR USING THE GOOGLE APIS PART II: CRAFTING QUERIES AND USING THE GOOGLE RESEARCH TOOLS SPEEDING UP BASIC TEXT SEARCHES CREATING MORE SIMPLE, SPECIFIC SEARCH QUERIES AVOIDING THE I’M-FEELING-LUCKY PITFALL OBTAINING GOOGLE DESKTOP SEARCH RESULTS CRAFTING BETTER SEARCHES INTRODUCING SIMPLE OPERATORS UNDERSTANDING GOOGLE OPERATOR OPTIONS UNDERSTANDING THE AND OPERATOR THE OR OPERATOR THE INCLUSION OPERATOR THE EXCLUSION OPERATOR REFINING SEARCHES WITH INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION QUOTING PHRASES WORKING WITH WILDCARDS USING THE ADVANCED SEARCH PAGE UNDERSTANDING RESULTS USING THE RESULTS CACHED RESULTS USING THE SYNONYM OPERATOR THE RELATED OPERATOR WORKING WITH OCCURRENCES OPERATORS FINDING YOUR LINKS: ALLINANCHOR: AND INANCHOR: OPERATORS GETTING INTO THE TEXT: ALLINTEXT: AND INTEXT FINDING FORMS: ALLINTITLE: AND INTITLE NARROWING THE SEARCH: ALLINURL: AND INURL INCLUDING AND EXCLUDING WITH THE OCCURRENCES OPERATORS GETTING DEFINITIONS RESTRICTING FILE TYPES BACKTRACKING WITH THE LINK OPERATOR FINDING A PHONE NUMBER COMBING A SITE GETTING ALL OF GOOGLE’S INFORMATION ABOUT A SITE USING THE SITE: OPERATOR BUILDING A SITE SEARCH BOX USING READY-MADE FUNCTIONALITY ANALYZING GOOGLE’S SEARCH STRING RECREATING GOOGLE’S SEARCH STRING WITH JAVASCRIPT TAKING A LOOK AT GOOGLE ANSWERS NAVIGATING TO GOOGLE ANSWERS SIGNING UP FOR GOOGLE ANSWERS LEARNING GOOGLE RESEARCH TECHNIQUES BROWSING SEARCHING WRITING A GOOD QUERY FOR GOOGLE ANSWERS TO RESEARCH VERBOTEN QUESTIONS POSING YOUR QUESTION INTRODUCING THE OPEN DIRECTORY PROJECT USING THE GOOGLE DIRECTORY OPENING THE GOOGLE DIRECTORY BROWSING THE GOOGLE DIRECTORY SEARCHING THE GOOGLE DIRECTORY MAKING THE MOST OF THE GOOGLE DIRECTORY TIPS FOR WORKING WITH THE GOOGLE DIRECTORY GOOGLE GROUPS: EXTENDING USENET ACCESSING GOOGLE GROUPS BROWSING GROUPS AND DEALING WITH POST OVERLOAD KNOWING GOOGLE IMAGES BASICS UNDERSTANDING HOW GOOGLE IMAGES WORKS ACCESSING THE GOOGLE IMAGES TOOL SEARCHING FOR IMAGES UNDERSTANDING IMAGE RESULTS DOWNLOADING IMAGES USING SAFESEARCH WITH IMAGES USING ADVANCED IMAGE SEARCH USING PICTURES IN YOUR RESEARCH USING GOOGLE IMAGES TO FIND WRITTEN INFORMATION FINDING A SPECIFIC IMAGE RESEARCHING FOR DESIGN FINDING OUT ABOUT A COMPANY ASKING (AND ANSWERING) CRUCIAL QUESTIONS GETTING FINANCIAL INFORMATION YOUR FINANCIAL RESEARCH CHECKLIST A SAMPLE FINANCIAL PROFILE UNDERSTANDING AN INDUSTRY FINDING OUT ABOUT AN INDUSTRY WITH GOOGLE DIRECTORY SEARCHING THE WEB WITH GOOGLE TO PROFILE AN INDUSTRY A SAMPLE INDUSTRY PROFILE KNOWING THE PLAYERS PART III: BUILDING VALUABLE RESEARCH CONTENT ASKING RESEARCH QUESTIONS WHY ASK QUESTIONS? SEARCHING HIERARCHICALLY USING REFERENCE INTERVIEWS INTERVIEW MECHANICS AND INVESTIGATIVE WORK GOING THROUGH THE PHASES OF THE REFERENCE INTERVIEW WHY GOOGLE IS NOT THE WEB GOOGLE AND OTHER SEARCH ENGINES THE “INVISIBLE” WEB OTHER KINDS OF RESEARCH USING A RESEARCH DATABASE OTHER ONLINE RESEARCH SERVICES LIBRARIES PUBLIC RECORDS RESEARCH FROM NOVICE TO PROFESSIONAL RESEARCHER ETHICS AND RESEARCH THE CHANGING WORLD OF RESEARCH EVALUATING THE CREDIBILITY OF INFORMATION KEEPING SOME BASICS IN MIND PROACTIVELY ASSESSING WEB SOURCES LEARNING HOW GOOGLE WORKS CRAWLING THE WEB PULLING OUT THE KEYWORDS SEEING THROUGH HYPE THE PAGERANK ALGORITHM UNDERSTANDING THE IMPLICATIONS OF PAGERANK UTILIZING AUTOMATED RESEARCH TOOLS MEETING THE NEEDS OF YOUR CLIENT DELIVERING RESEARCH RESULTS GETTING YOUR ELEVATOR PITCH DOWN PAT PREPARING AN EXECUTIVE SUMMARY PERSONALLY PRESENTING RESULTS EFFECTIVELY USING VISUAL INFORMATION THE MECHANICS OF PROJECTION PREPARATION PREPARING A SLIDESHOW USING E-MAIL TO DELIVER RESEARCH RESULTS USING THE WEB TO PRESENT RESEARCH RESULTS SOURCING RESEARCH INFORMATION WHEN RESEARCH RESULTS ARE STATISTICAL PART IV: BUILDING RESEARCH TOOLS USING THE GOOGLE APIS CREATING RESEARCH APPLICATIONS WITH SCRIPTS THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF SCRIPTING FLOWING WITH YOUR SCRIPTS CREATING AN AUTOMATIC TRANSLATION PAGE GETTING YOUR APPLICATION CODED AND READY TO GO MOVING FROM THE CLIENT TO THE SERVER CREATING SERVER-SIDE RESEARCH TOOLS CONNECTING EVERYTHING WITH WEB SERVICES INTRODUCING THE GOOGLE APIS WEB SERVICE WORKING WITH THE GOOGLE APIS THE APIS ARE STILL IN BETA — SHOULD YOU CARE? COMPLYING WITH THE TERMS OF SERVICE INVESTIGATING INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITATIONS QUERYING WITH THE APIS GETTING A PAGE FROM THE CACHE REQUESTING A SEARCH UNDERSTANDING SEARCH REQUEST RETURN VALUES DOING A SPELLING REQUEST GETTING YOUR KEY REGISTERING FOR A GOOGLE ACCOUNT GETTING THE KEY BY E-MAIL WHY YOU SHOULD GET A KEY GOOGLE APPLICATIONS THAT NEED AN ACCOUNT THIRD-PARTY APPLICATIONS THAT USE A KEY REPLACING A LOST KEY DOWNLOADING THE SDK UNDERSTANDING XML BASICS GETTING MORE EXTENSIBILITY FOR YOUR BUCK DESCRIBING XML WITH SCHEMAS WORKING WITH THE GOOGLE WSDL FILE USING THE GOOGLE WSDL FILE WITH VISUAL STUDIO NET USING THE WSDL FILE IN OTHER LANGUAGES TO HTTP OR TO SOAP? INTRODUCING THE SOAP STANDARD CALLING THE GOOGLE WEB METHODS WITH HTTP USING XOOMLE TO HAVE IT BOTH WAYS DEALING WITH NONALPHANUMERIC SNAFUS CREATING AN ASP NET APPLICATION MANAGING FILES WITH SOLUTION EXPLORER WORKING WITH UDDI FROM WITHIN VISUAL STUDIO NET UNDERSTANDING THE GENERATED CODE AND CLASSES PROGRAMMING WITH THE GOOGLE APIS MAKING A SPELLING SUGGESTION RETURNING A “LUCKY” RESULT URL AND SNIPPET UNDERSTANDING THE GOOGLE SDK SAMPLE ESTIMATING RETURN RESULTS FINDING THE SIZE OF A CACHED PAGE CONSTRUCTING THE ADVANCED SEARCH PROGRAM CREATING AN ADVANCED SEARCH WINDOW USING CODE TO CREATE YOUR SEARCH STRING CALLING THE GOOGLE APIS DISPLAYING A RESULTS SET CREATING THE FORM CALLING THE DOGOOGLESEARCH API DISPLAYING SEARCH RESULTS SAVING SEARCH RESULTS CYCLING THROUGH MULTIPLE RESULTS FOLLOWING THE SPIRIT OF THE TIMES CREATING A USER INTERFACE TO TRACK RESULTS RETURNING THE ESTIMATED HITS FOR A KEYWORD GETTING MULTIPLE RESULTS TRACKING RESULTS OVER TIME PART V: THE PART OF TENS CROSSREF SEARCH ENTERPRISE SEARCH CENTER EVERYTHING GOOGLE GOOGLE ZEITGEIST GOOGLEFIGHT GOOGLEWHACK OPEN DIRECTORY PROJECT HELP CENTRAL PAGERANK EXPLAINED RESEARCHBUZZ! 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