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http://www.open-video.org

 The Open Video Project

Anticipating a future with widespread access to large digital libraries of video, a great deal of research is currently

 

 focused on many areas related to digital video. Research in these areas requires that each investigator acquire and

 

 digitize video for their studies since the multimedia information retrieval community does not yet have a standard

 

 collection of video to be used for research purposes.

 

The purpose of the Open Video Project is to collect and make available a repository of digitized video content for the

 

 digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other research communities. Researchers can use the video to

 

 study a wide range of problems, such as tests of algorithms for automatic segmentation, summarization, and creation of

 

 surrogates that describe video content; the development of face recognition algorithms; or creating and evaluating

 

 interfaces that display result sets from multimedia queries. Because researchers attempting to solve similar problems

 

 will have access to the same video content, the repository is also intended to be used as a test collection that will

 

 enable systems to be compared, similar to the way the TREC conferences are used for text retrieval.

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Always on Google :D.

 

 

Here all URLs, which contain the word seorank with the word seo in page content, will be shown in the results.
 

Formule:  inurl:  +   words on the address (that you remember )

See: search tips with Google

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Information in a site

Quite often, google search better the search engin of a site, even Microsoft site

Formule:  site:+"site url"  + key word

Ex:  site:ttvnol.com "hoa lan"

==> search "hoa lan" on the site TTVNOL.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You have 2 ways with google:

First, type "filename.swf"

 ==> Ex:  iloveyou.swf, the first result by google is quite cool!

 

Secondly, type:

 filetype:swf + key word

==> Ex: filetype:swf "Because I love you", the first result will be, in my case, a letter so touching

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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• Default Search: Google search is set to Web Search by default. If you want to change your criteria you can choose from a variety of options, which are described later on this page.
  
   

• Default Procedure: The default procedure for search displays pages with all typed keywords.
  
   

• Use of “and”: By default all typed keywords are searched for so there is no need to type “and” between terms.
  
   

• Common Words: Common words like “how” & “where” are automatically excluded. Single digits are also excluded. This is necessary because it helps speed up the search. Common words can be included by using the “+” sign after a space. This should come after your main keyword.
  
   

• Keyword Selection: Choose your keywords wisely. Use your logic to locate very specific keywords.For more information, refer to our detailed article on Keyword Research.
  
   

• Use More Keywords: Include more terms to narrow your search
  
   

• Use of Minus: The minus sign “–” can be used after the keywords to exclude a specific keyword. This keyword is placed after the minus sign. This comes in handy when a word with different meanings could make the search engine come up with irrelevant results.
  
   

• Use of Tilde: The tilde “~” can be used before the keyword to search for its synonyms as well to make the search more comprehensive. It can be used more than once with more than one keyword.
  
   

• Use of Quotation Marks: You can also use quotation marks for keywords that you want in a sequence or a phrase. This way the search engine picks up pages only that contain the words as enclosed in the quotation marks.
  
   

• Capitalization: Google search is not case sensitive. All characters, except the “OR” operator, are understood as lower case only. So you need not worry about capitalization.
  
   

• Stemming Technology: Ensures that your results are not plural or singular sensitive. This means that you will be served plurals for singular searches and vice-versa. These versions will be highlighted in the piece of text accompanying the displayed links. Google frequently adjusts the stemming algo so results may fluctuate depending on their latest adjustments.
  
   

• Directory Search: You can use the directory search if you are not sure about the appropriate keywords.

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* SLIDE SHOWS

.PPT files are PowerPoint slide shows. Many companies, governments and organizations put slide shows on the web for their members or the public. You can find these shows and display the images, graphics and information on your own computer.

For example, if you wanted to see if the American military had produced a slide show on the anthrax vaccine: go to Google Advanced and put in anthrax as your keyword
under Format, select .ppt
under Domain, type in .mil (This restricts the search to the military sites of the US armed forces. For more on Searching by Domain, see the JournalismNet column in Media magazine # __ )

If you click on any of the results, you can watch the slide show -- complete with graphics -- and save it on your computer-- providing, of course, you have PowerPoint installed.

If you don't have PowerPoint installed on your machine, you can at least see the text and images of the slide show in a web page format. You can do this by clicking on the words "VIEW AS HTML" right next to the results.

You won't get the effect of the show but you will get the content.

 

* SPREADSHEETS

Companies, academics and individuals store financial and other data in tables or spreadsheets created by Microsoft Excel. These are in .XLS format.

If you are looking for statistics, growth rates, comparisons -- anything that is likely to best written or presented in a table -- then you can assume someone has written it and stored it on the web in an Excel format.

For example, let's say you want to examine gasoline and cigarette taxes by province in Canada:

go to Google Advanced and put in as your keywords cigarette taxes world
under Format, select .xls

When you click on the result, your Excel program launches and gives you the table. (Again, if you don't have Excel installed on your machine, you can at least see the text in a web page format by clicking on the words "VIEW AS HTML" right next to the results. You won't get the complete effect of the table but it is usually quite comprehensible.)

Tables do not have to be strictly financial or economic. People use Excel to track any kind of historical or statistical trend.

Here is another example. Research on the global arms trade should be done using the usual general search techniques. But go to Google Advanced and perform an .XLS format search like this:

put in as your keywords global arms trade
- under Format, select .xls

to get some good results.

 

* WORD DOCUMENTS

Many people also use Microsoft Word to write reports, essays, studies and pretty much everything else they type on their computers except for email. The documents are stored on your computer as .DOC files.

Some web sites will then simply import their members' writings or reports as .doc files. This is not as useful a search as the other formats, but it can still turn up some gems. Universities in particular post a lot of .doc files on their web sites since so many professors and students do their work in Word and it is easier to share information that way.

Armed with this knowledge, you can do some sophisticated searching. Let's say you need research on the Russian election of 1999 that brought Vladimir Putin to power. You assume Harvard University as done some work on this. Go to Google Advanced:
 

put in as your keywords russia election 1999
under Format, select .doc
- under Domain, type in .harvard.edu (This restricts the search to the Harvard web site. Again, for more on Searching by Domain, see the JournalismNet column in Media magazine # __ )

You will get several research papers on the topic. If you click on the links, you will open up a Microsoft Word document.

To sum up, we have seen how to search for official reports and documents (.pdf and .doc files), tables and spreadsheets (.xls files) and slide shows (.ppt files). But be careful -- you should always combine these restricted searches with a general search for all kinds of web pages to make sure you don't miss some valuable sites.

 

* Other enhanced searches
Google is always adding new features, and as well as being a search engine, it also works as a dictionary (define:), a glossary , and a very powerful calculator. It can even work out [the answer to life, the universe and everything]. But Google has also opened up its programming interface (API) so that other people can create applications to search its database of web pages. So far, most of these experiments are not very useful, but you can search recently added pages at GooFresh and compare results for keywords at GoogleFight. For more examples, see www.voelspriet.nl/googletools.htm.