20 Tips

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These were the websites listed by Mary Ellen Bates in her excellent talk "20+ Tips for Searching the New Web" at the SLA Annual Conference this week.

WikiIndex
WikiSeek
Wikia List
Google Blog Search
Technorati
Feedster
Ask.com's new interface, Ask X
Search the Web 2
Kosmix
Google Topic Search
Google Experimental Searching
PodCastAlley
Podcast.net
Yahoo! Podcasts Search (beta)
Podscope
Podzinger
LinkedIn
YoName
NationMaster (also StateMaster)
Authoratory
TouchGraph
Snap.com
Quintura
popURLs.com
800-GOOG-411 Google Local Search on your phone with voice recognition

(Mary Ellen, on the off chance you see this and are annoyed that I posted your list, please comment and I will remove this post. No infringement upon your business as a speaker or columnist is intended.)

Comments

[jducoeur]

Wow -- I only know about a third of those. Clearly, I'm going to have to do some looking around...

[hungrytiger]

Neat, thanks for the list. We're starting to play with podcasting at work so those links will help a lot, esp. since I'm supposed to do a quick presentation on Monday.