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Google Operators

This is a really useful slideshow. I thought I had a fairly sound grasp of Google operators but it turns out there's a lot more to it than I thought!

To find case studies from official government sites about outbreaks of swine flu in UK schools try this:

site:.gov.uk "swine flu*schools"~outbreak

The asterisk acts as a wildcard for any words in between 'swine flu' and 'schools' and the ~ symbol searches for synonyms of 'outbreak'




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Google Mining

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Google Search Options

"Google are upping the stakes in search with a roll out of new ways to slice and dice your search results. The most interesting and useful for me, as a journalist, is the ability to limit the search to the last 24 hours. I can imagine using this frequently. See Google's blog post here.

"We were told that the hardest problems in search were:

- Finding the most recent information
- Expressing that you want just one type of result
- Assessing which results are best
- Knowing what you’re looking for
- Expressing your searches in keywords

"By allowing you to search the last 24 hours only, Google is getting to real-time search but is not there yet. The only place at the moment where this is a reality is Twitter. Its search function allows you to find out what people are saying now about the latest film release, earthquake, whatever. This real-time discovery can be incredibly useful."

Source: "Google searches fo the perfect answer" Mike Harvey, Tech Central, TimesOnline

Steve Outing asks: 'digital' or 'online' media?

The trouble with “online media” is that it, to my mind, implies the state of your PC constantly connected to the Internet via an ethernet cable or wi-fi. But it doesn’t really work to describe mobile devices like phones or e-readers (e.g., Amazon’s Kindle), which increasingly are supplementing or even replacing the PC as Internet access devices and retrieve data from the Internet on-demand.

Source: steveouting.com 'Digital' media or 'online' media?

Coraline: dark magic

Went to see a preview screening of Coraline yesterday evening - totally magical.

"Add to those interested parties the millions who love the fantasy-rich literature of Neil Gaiman and those who adore the dreamscape artistry of Nightmare Before Christmas filmmaker Henry Selick, and you have the audience for Coraline: everybody. This thrilling stop-motion animated adventure is a high point in Selick's career of creating handcrafted wonderlands of beauty blended with deep, disconcerting creepiness."

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The Last Unicorn

Sir Tim Berners-Lee at the TED conference and the 20th anniversary of the WWW

The World Wide Web is 20 years old!

From Read Write Web:

One year ago Berners-Lee said that all the pieces needed to build a new Semantic Web are now in place. Last month he gave an impassioned talk at the high-profile TED conference about a related concept called Linked Data, a set of ideas he outlined in 2006. The gist of the idea is that we need every institution that can do so to put raw data in a standardized format up on the web.