1	Phil’s Picks Internet Librarian 2005 Phil Bradley, Internet Consultant
2	Browser Firefox http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
3	"Excellent support for RSS feeds" Excellent support for RSS feeds
4	Vital Firefox extensions Superdragandgo http://superdragandgo.mozdev.org/ Copy URL+ http://copyurlplus.mozdev.org/ Nuke Anything http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/ ConQuery http://conquery.mozdev.org/
5	Firefox – other reasons Simple to use Reasonably secure Toolbar support Popup killers Excellent bookmark manager Set up is simple
6	Search Engines 1 A complete listing of engines that I use is at: http://www.philb.com/whichengine.htm General Searching Exalead http://www.exalead.com Wide variety of options for search, display, sorting Factual information Microsoft Encarta http://search.msn.com/encarta/results.aspx?FORM=ENHP&q=
7	Search Engines 2 Meta search engine ez2Find http://www.ez2find.com All major search engines included Wide variety of options Local data Guides/Directory approach Specialized meta searching
8	Search Engines 3 Personalization Google personal
9	More on searching Current information Goofresh http://www.researchbuzz.org/2003/09/goofresh.shtml Re-ranking MSN Search Builder http://search.msn.com/?qb=1 ZapMeta http://zapmeta.com/
10	"Authoritative websites" Authoritative websites Librarians’ Internet Index http://lii.org/ Academic information Scirus http://www.scirus.com/ SMEALSearch http://smealsearch2.psu.edu/ InfoMine http://infomine.ucr.edu/ BUBL http://www.bubl.ac.uk Hidden/Invisible web Turbo10 http://turbo10.com/
11	"Images" Images Yahoo! Image search http://search.yahoo.com/images?&ei=UTF-8&p= Moving images Yahoo! Video search http://video.search.yahoo.com/ Google Video search http://video.google.com/
12	"Local information (UK" Local information (UK) Google Maps http://maps.google.co.uk/ Google Local http://local.google.co.uk/ UpMyStreet http://www.upmystreet.com/ Words The Reverse Dictionary http://www.onelook.com/reverse-dictionary.shtml Online Etymology Dictionary http://www.etymonline.com/
13	Search Tips The right search engine for the right job Look for the answer, not the question Always use phrase searching whenever possible Advanced search is usually more helpful, with more options Also use command line searching
14	Google search tips ~ for synonym searching Wild card in a phrase: three * mice Or almost anywhere: * like to * seaside Number range 2000..2005 Define: Restrict by type of site: site:.ac.uk Restrict by file format: filetype:pdf
15	More search tips Movie: Proximity searching using GAPS: http://www.staggernation.com/cgi-bin/gaps.cgi Date based search with GooFresh: http://www.researchbuzz.org/2003/09/goofresh.shtml
16	Even more tips Google ‘sinker’ – repetition to increase relevance: ‘president confederate confederate confederate confederate confederate confederate confederate’ Google Groups for ephemeral information Similar pages and links to a site/page
17	Keeping Current Bloglines
18	‘Must read’ weblogs Mine! http://www.philb.com/blog/blogger.html ResourceShelf http://www.resourceshelf.com/ Neat New Stuff http://www.marylaine.com/neatnew.html Tame the Web http://www.tametheweb.com/ttwblog/
19	More must reads ResearchBuzz http://www.researchbuzz.org/ Charlene Li’s Blog http://blogs.forrester.com/charleneli/ Search Engine Watch http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/ Robert Scoble http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/
20	Other resources MSN RSS feeds Furl http://www.furl.net Conversate http://conversate.org/ PookMail http://www.pookmail.com/ Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/philbradley/