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Search Google like a Pro:An Ultimate Guide

admin — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 00:22:00 +0000

How can you save time with Google search? Do you know what operators you can use with Google?

Have you used Google to its full advantage? Joseph has compiled an exhasutive list and list of examples, queries that you can use on Google search to quickly find what you want.

Check the Unofficial Google Advanced Search guide.

Do you know how Google interprets your search queries into an URL? For example,

Google advanced search sends the following URI to the
server.

Here is
decoding:http://www.google.com/search?
as_q=test (query string)
&hl=en (language)
&num=10 (number of results
[10,20,30,50,100])
&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq= (complete
phrase)
&as_oq= (at least one)

&as_eq= (excluding)
&lr= (language results.
[lang_countrycode])
&as_ft=i (filetype include or exclude.
[i,e])
&as_filetype= (filetype extension)
&as_qdr=all (date [all,M3,m6,y])

&as_nlo= (number range, low)
&as_nhi= (number range, high)
&as_occt=any (terms occur
[any,title,body,url,links])
&as_dt=i (restrict by domain [i,e])
&as_sitesearch= (restrict by [site])

&as_rights= (usage
rights
[cc_publicdomain,cc_attribute,cc_sharealike,cc_noncommercial,cc_nonderived]
&safe=images (safesearch
[safe=on,images=off])
&as_rq= (similar pages)
&as_lq= (pages that link)
&gl=us (2-digit country code in
lowercase)

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Build a Search Engine and Make Money

admin — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 20:04:00 +0000

The age of personalisation is coming. No longer, Google will serve the individual needs. When it comes, collecting worthy weblinks, bookmarks, every one is an expert – I personally have a list of bookmarks that I trust for collecting information (I follow their RSS and read them daily). So, why not build a personal search engine around those trusted websites?

There are few tools that allow you to build such “personal search engines”. The pioneer is of course, Rollyo. Rollyo is built on the Yahoo web search and using it you can build a custom search engine or the expert search engine.

Rollyo came topped the search engines category at the SEOmoz’s Web 2.0 awards 2007. With Rollyo, you can create your own custom search engine. You can select up to 25 weblinks and submit them to tell Rollyo to return results from them.

For example, I have created a “Blogging Tips” search engine that will allow you to find tips and tricks from professional bloggers who are very authoritative in their voice. The topic covers how to manage your blog, how to make money with it, how to market and build traffic for your blog.

You can directly export your IE / Firefox or del.icio.us bookmarks to a .csv file and then you can use it to create your Rollyo search engine.

You can add Rollyo to your Firefox Toolbar

You can also use Rollyo RollBar Bookmarklet to search from any browser.

You can share your Rollyo search engine

by providing a direct web link http://rollyo.com/thiru/blogging_tips/

or embedding a search box on your web page

How do you make money with Rollyo?

To make money with Rollyo, you need to apply first to teamrollyo [at] gmail [dot] com. Their FAQ says,

“If you have a well-trafficked site or blog that features advertising or
affiliate deals, you could be a perfect fit for the Rollyo Partner Program.”

Google Custom Search : Google Co-op
That’s why Google also followed the Rollyo model and built the Google Custom Search Engine or simply Google Co-op.

The concept and setting up procedure is similar to Rollyo. But, there is no limit to the number of weblinks (Rollyo has 25).

Google Co-op is potentially far more superior that Rollyo as it gives “labels” feature to classify and categorise your weblinks – something similar to “tags”. With search refinements, you can build a powerful search engine that will provide results suiting to the audience (kids, adults, professionals or dummies), subject type (scientific, entertainment, information), document type (word, excel or pdf) and where does it come from (blog, portal, private or government based web pages).

People can contribute to your search engine (you have the control). Using Google Marker, you can improve your search engine as you browse, search the web.

With Adsense, you can make money:Oh yes, when it comes to monetization, it is simple and easy. All you need to do is integrate your Adsense account with it.

“To make money from your Custom Search Engine you can join Google’s AdSense for Search program, which places contextually relevant ads on your Custom Search Engine’s search results pages – and pays you a share of all the revenue that’s generated from those ads. For more information about how the AdSense for Search program and Custom Search Engine work together, visit the Make Money page in your search engine’s Control Panel.” – Google Co-op FAQs

Invariably, you need to popularise your search engine, to tell the world. Learn few tips from the experts on how to do it.

Despite of such tools, the personal search engine is still to hit the mainstream. Why not you pioneer the field and make some bucks. Start today. All you need is a list of your web links or bookmarks specific to a category (such as Aussie Blogs).

Now, you have two search tools with which you can build personal search engines and benefit from them too.

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Search Torrents

admin — Fri, 04 May 2007 11:54:00 +0000

BitTorrent – an efficient technology to transfer huge files over Internet -has made the life easy for many people who live on low-bandwidth.

There are many torrent sites that organize specific content – from movies to e-books.

How do you find them? though, at least 10 sites cover they are “the largest torrents search engine”.

Try these 5 search engines. They are the best torrent search engines.

1. Torrent spy – arguably has most number of visitors per day.

2. Mininova – Watch the search cloud – the best way to get active Seeders.

3. Torrentz – Excellent results.

4. Iso hunt – a very efficient search engine for BitTorrents and P2P.

5. Torrent scan – a meta search engine for Torretnts (that connects and searches all other torrent search engines).

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241 fun things to to online!

admin — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 10:51:00 +0000

A to Z listing of fun things (blog posts) published so far in this blog. Click on a topic to know more!

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Learn cooking

admin — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:43:00 +0000

Bigoven hosts more than 1,60,000 cooking recipes in their site. You can search them using a main ingredient you want to start your cooking (chicken, vegetables, etc) or you can browse by categories of international cuisine.

You can download a software (a 30 day trial and full version costs $30) to have all your recipes on your computer – so you can see them even offline.

Share recipes, spice up your menu.

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Search blog posts

admin — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 09:02:00 +0000

Sphere is a blog search engine. You would have noticed that Google Blog search does a better job with Blogger blogs, but doesnt provide satisfactory results on other blogs.

Sphere provides a more relevant, fresh search on blog posts on any topic you name. It does a special job by suggesting which other blogs discuss the same topic as yours – you can find your competitors as well.

When you hit the sphere it button, you find highly relevant blogs that are in your niche area.

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Song bird web player

admin — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 12:54:00 +0000

Songbird is the new winamp. Download a small file and install and you can play anything when you browse the web.

Yes, you can play the webpages also You can search more like the song that is playing and more features are included in the free service.

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Search shops

admin — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:12:00 +0000

Shoplifter is a web service that allows you to search for a product across many web stores – to compare them before you purchase them.

You can do a search and set a reminder to get periodic updates on your mobile.

You can save, forwards your results for your friends.

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101 fun things to do online

admin — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 14:02:00 +0000

We started a blog named, “1001 fun things to do online“, with an objective to post an activity to do online – linking to the best website, web service available to do that job. One activity, one web site, every day of the year until we reach the 1001 things.

Now, the count has crossed 240, but, here we present a first 100 things as a list of 101 fun things to do online for convenience. You can also find a web-page here.

Soon, we will post 250 fun things to do online!

0 How to live 99% on Internet?

1 Get Free Content

2 Save bookmarks

3 Organize photos

4 “No e-Mail, there?s only g-Mail”

5 Socialize with a purpose!

10 Break a weird music record..

11 Save Money

12 Learn to make a Balloon Toy

13 Track your Diet

14 Make a dumb photo (of your enemy!)

15 Ask a Question

16 Clone a website!

17 Create your Own Newspaper!

18 Cool photoshopped Pictures

19 Get inspired by a Logo

20 Become Photogenic!

21 Learn good English

22 Make a Drawing!

23 Babbly Gabbly Chat

24 Access Premium Websites

25 Everything for FREE

26 Cook (and eat too!) a new Dish

27 100 Words and 100 Images

28 Listen with Juice

29 Create a Map

30 Get a free book!

31 Know about a Religion

32 Open your shop

33 Whats on your Clipboard?

34 Audio and Video Mails

35 Limewire:Share Anything

36 Upcoming

37 Find a date!

38 Write anywhere!

39 Want some free photos?

40 Find source codes & projects

41 Life is a trip.Take it.

42 Showcase your design

43 Write your Autobiography

44 Create a content-ready Webpage

45 Decide which is Good News

46 Comment on others!

47 Let the interesting contents reach you

48 Share files with your Peers

49 Narrow your Search

50 Build a virtual Hotel

51 Build your Business Network

52 Listen Music with last.fm

53 News on a WorldMap

54 Find your Forebearers here!

55 Create a funny Notice

56 Advertise all over the world!

57 Cook with what you have..

58 “Create, Share your Videos”

59 Create a colourful ASCII image!

60 Find websites that match your ‘taste’

61 Send files or folders

62 Pickle it!

63 Search Jobs

65 Meet Geeks

69 Create Maps

70 Buy or Sell

71 Publish a book!

72 Advice for Parenting

73 Review a Product!

74 Play with words!

75 Record your Voice!

76 Personalize Internet

77 Get free articles!

78 Spotback News

79 Blogger Poker Tour

80 Start Page

81 Collect Miniature Landmarks

82 Advert:Promote your website!

83 Find and be found!

84 Get Help to win in Online Poker games!

85 One number for Life!

86 Resize Images

87 Compress your files Online

88 Advert:Pay your Credit

89 Discover GPS

90 Guess Bluff or True?

91 Claim your ID

92 Snap your Visitors!

93 How-to Guides

94 Make a Comic Strip!

95 Whats your weekend plans?

96 Create a Chat Room

97 Hello, World!

98 Search Videos

99 Get linked with Pros

100 Roll your own search engine!

101 Save your favourite websites

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Really want a job?

admin — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 15:02:00 +0000

You’d love to work at Company X. If only you knew someone at Company X, your job search would be easy: you’d ask your buddy to give you the inside scoop about getting hired there. Maybe he’d even be able to give you a personal referral or introduce you to his boss.

But you don’t know anyone at Company X. And that’s a shame because SOMEWHERE out there, there’s SOMEBODY who works at Company X… or KNOWS somebody that works there. If only you could talk to them and get their inside scoop.

Leave your worries.

The first personal job referral exchange is offered by whototalkto. Your last job could be the key to finding your next job.

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