The midden » search engines http://sumdy.edublogs.org education, technology, change Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:02:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Top 100 tools for learning http://sumdy.edublogs.org/2007/11/27/top-100-tools-for-learning/ http://sumdy.edublogs.org/2007/11/27/top-100-tools-for-learning/#comments Tue, 27 Nov 2007 11:25:44 +0000 Will Stewart http://sumdy.edublogs.org/2007/11/27/top-100-tools-for-learning/ Jane Hart, head of the Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies, has produced a useful list of the most popular tools used by learning professionals. The list is a mix of proprietary, open source and web-based tools. She has also grouped them by type, and given other suggestions of similar tools in each category.

]]> http://sumdy.edublogs.org/2007/11/27/top-100-tools-for-learning/feed/ 1 Searchbots – a personalised search aggregator http://sumdy.edublogs.org/2007/10/25/searchbots-a-personalised-search-aggregator/ http://sumdy.edublogs.org/2007/10/25/searchbots-a-personalised-search-aggregator/#comments Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:34:04 +0000 Will Stewart http://sumdy.edublogs.org/2007/10/25/searchbots-a-personalised-search-aggregator/ SearchbotI’ve been using Pannini, my own personalised search aggregator, for a couple of months now and am finding it very useful. Pannini is a searchbot – a search engine that feeds off Google, Yahoo, Delicious, Magnolia, GeoURL and others. By feeding it with your own key tag words, it builds up an artificial intelligence, enabling it to search on your behalf and deliver resources to you that have been selected from a wide range of search engines and social bookmarking sites. Because you have told it what you are interested in, it will deliver resources that are more likely to be useful to you than just a simple Google search. It will also do a persistent search, i.e. it will keep searching indefinitely for you, so that when a new resource appears it will send it to you, even if it is 6 weeks after you set up the search. You can set it up to report back on a daily, weekly or monthly basis.

A search on the Proclaimers, for example, would bring up a graphical display showing a thumbnail and brief description of each site.

Lovely!

Proclaimers

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