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		<title>Google Real Time Search</title>
		<link>http://www.pafa.net/archives/1086</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pollyalida</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(short screencast) I suspect I&#8217;m starting to sound like a Google employee, but I&#8217;m just testing out lots of Google stuff for a bunch of workshops coming up. This short screencast shows the new real time search feature in action. For hot topics with timely content, you may see a scrolling news feed of updates [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Google Search Options</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:02:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pollyalida</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google has just added some more handy search filters to the &#8220;show options&#8221; side panel that they introduced last May. Today, we&#8217;re announcing nine new Search Options tools: past hour, specific date range, more shopping sites, fewer shopping sites, visited pages, not yet visited, books, blogs and news. These features have been rolling out gradually [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Books &#8211; Barcode scanning &amp; Search your collection</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:33:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barcode your bookshelf with Google Books features a short video that shows how to use a bar code scanner to enter your books into your personal library on Google Books. I don&#8217;t have a scanner, but I bet lots of you do! Handy, fast way to get lots of books entered quickly. Why bother adding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s NOT a search engine &#8211; Wolfram Alpha &#8211; try it!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 21:23:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pollyalida</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new tool for finding data and doing calculations was released in March. I just heard about it today &#8211; several times in fact &#8211; I&#8217;m a few weeks behind on the &#8220;buzz&#8221;. Wolfram Alpha is NOT a search engine &#8211; &#8220;It&#8217;s a computational knowledge engine: it generates output by doing computations from its own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>50+ Google and Yahoo Search Shortcuts Cheat Sheet</title>
		<link>http://www.pafa.net/archives/680</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:45:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pollyalida</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nicely organized and handy cheat sheet of search shortcuts for Google &#38; Yahoo. Also available as a&#160; 3 page doc file and a separate html page for easy printing.]]></description>
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		<title>Google in Quotes</title>
		<link>http://www.pafa.net/archives/326</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:32:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pollyalida</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via Phil Bradley&#8217;s weblog: Google has come out with a really clever gizmo that they&#8217;re calling &#8216;Google in Quotes&#8216;. Basically it pits two political figures from some major countries together allowing searchers to type in a search term in order to compare what they say about the subject. The experiment comes in various country flavours&#8230; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tons o&#8217; Search Tips</title>
		<link>http://www.pafa.net/archives/302</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2008 03:19:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pollyalida</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Kate Sheehan (Loose Cannon Librarian) for live blogging the sessions she attended today with Mary Ellen Bates at the Greenwich Library. Wow, tons of terrific search tips in these posts! Check &#8216;em out. Mary Ellen Bates at Greenwich Library Mary Ellen Bates 45 search tips in 60 minutes Advanced Search Secrets with Mary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RSS feeds for web searches</title>
		<link>http://www.pafa.net/archives/261</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:03:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pollyalida</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of us have a few (or many!) topics that we do repeat searches on in the big search engines. This might be a research topic you&#8217;re trying to keep up to date on, your library&#8217;s name or even your own name. An RSS feed for a subject search can save you some time by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kindernet &#8211; Children&#8217;s Search Engine</title>
		<link>http://www.pafa.net/archives/210</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:24:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pollyalida</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Kids]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just heard about Kindernet, a new children&#8217;s search engine. Though the layout isn&#8217;t the jazziest at the moment, the search results look useful and age appropriate. The developer left a comment on Phil Bradley&#8217;s blog indicating that they&#8217;re working on a new look for the site. Looking forward to seeing how this project develops. From [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Viewzi &#8211; New Search Tool</title>
		<link>http://www.pafa.net/archives/167</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 01:19:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pollyalida</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Viewzi takes your search terms, tries to figure out what you&#8217;re looking for and get the most relevant results. Sounds like every search engine, right? Viewzi&#8217;s twist is in the variety of different &#8220;views&#8221; within the search results and the highly visual presentation. The results are grouped into categories or &#8220;views&#8221; like shopping, weather, photos, [...]]]></description>
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