Index
- (minus sign), 79–80, 104, 105
* (asterisk), 130
~ (tilde), 103
2RSS, 23
A
A-Z Agency list, 153
adult content, 178
Advanced Search forms
Amazon, 142–143
eBay, 146
FindArticles, 123
Flickr, 1963
Gigablast, 118
GMail, 227–230
Google, 82–83
Google Images, 176–177
Google Video, 179–180
Yahoo, 105
Yahoo Images, 178
Yahoo News, 119–120
Yahoo Video, 181–182
aignes.com, 56
alert services, 63–72
finding, 63–64
Flickr, 198
Hoovers, 128–129
Northern Light, 131
Notifyr, 198
third-party, 69–72
TracerLock, 71–72
Yahoo, 64–67
Alexa, 116
AltaVista Audio Search, 167–168
Amber Alerts, 64
“and” searches, 79
Apple
Safari, 33
Archive, Internet, 174
ASCII text files, 250–251
Ask Desktop, 253–254
Ask Images, 177–178
Ask Jeeves, 108–110
asterisk (*), 130
Attensa, 228
audio, searching for, 164–175
audio archives, 173–174
audio blogs, 175
audio-only search engines, 165–168
Audio Search, AltaVista, 167–168
B
Babelfish, 167
Backflip, 272–273
Bausch, Paul, 144
Belkasoft, 257
best deal blogs, 148
Big-Boards, 214–215
blackperl.com, 269
BlinkList, 194
Blog Search, Google, 135–136, 243
blog software packages, 291–296
blog-tracking case study, 241–245
Blogdigger Media, 172
Blogfinder, 21–22
Blogger Buzz, 286
Blogging in a Snap, 290
blogging sites, 289–296
blogrolls, 94
blogs, 284–296
audio, 175
vs. conversations, 85
coupon/best deal, 148
determining number of subscribers to, 98
hosted, 284–289
hosting your own, 289–296
monitoring, 242–243
pros and cons of, 284–285
searching, 85, 132–137, 198–200
vs. Web sites, 284
vs. wikis, 284
BlogSpot, 285–287
book information, 142–143
Book Standard, 11
bookmarklets, 47, 48, 193, 231
Bookmarks, Yahoo’s, 269
Boolean logic, 79
Boz, 269
browsers. See Web browsers
business information, 126
C
cell phones
getting trapping results via, 6, 229
sending e-mail alerts to, 66, 68
ChangeDetect, 53–54
CIA Factbook, 156–157
CiteULike, 200
city sites, 149–150
client-based RSS readers, 14, 34, 38–41
client-side page monitors, 46, 56–60
clustering feature, Flickr, 197
clustering search engines, 114–115, 155
ClusterMed, 155
Clusty, 114
commercial information, trapping, 142–149
Connotea, 200
content filters, 178
content-management software, 14
conversations
vs. blogs, 85
searching within, 84, 85, 86, 205, 213–216
trapping, 202–213
types of, 202
Copyscape, 97
Copysentry, 97
core sources, 75
corporate feeds, 22
country codes, 91
coupon blogs, 148
coupons, 24
Cream, 251
Creative Commons, 105
D
Dealhack, 148
Del. See del.icio.us
del.icio.us, 172, 191–193, 268–269
del.icio.us Filtered, 193
desktop indexers, 253–261
DHL package tracking, 24
digital archives, 27
directories
Google, 112
RSS feed, 15–22
Web, 78, 106–108, 112, 160, 240
discussion boards/groups, 202, 213, 279, 282, 303. See also conversations
Disorient Express, 24
documents, publishing, 276–278
domains
monitoring links to, 89
restricting search to specific, 81, 91
dot-addressing, 221
E
archiving, 226–227
deleting, 227
filtering, 218, 222–224, 246–247
forwarding, 226
free service. See GMail
getting information-trapping results via, 6
getting RSS feeds via, 228–229
as Internet killer app, 200
searching, 227–230
shutting down, 246–247
e-mail alert services, 63–72
finding, 63–64
Flickr, 198
Hoovers, 128–129
Northern Light, 131
Notifyr, 198
third-party, 69–72
TracerLock, 71–72
Yahoo, 64–67
e-mail alerts, 62–72
advantages of, 62–63
as alternative to page monitors, 45, 62–63
as alternative to RSS feeds, 44, 62–63
defined, 62
setting up on Yahoo, 64–66
EarthLink, 233
eBay, 145–149
Embassy.org, 157
eSnips, 270
ExpressionEngine, 295–296
eXtensible Markup Language, 8 See also XML
external information
defined, 75
information-trapping case study, 236–241
F
Familiar Taste, 269
federal sites, 152–156
FedEx package tracking, 24
feed readers
RSS. See RSS readers
typical layouts for, 37
using Web browsers as, 12, 29–33
Feed Validator, 308
FeedBurner, 100
FeedDigest, 308–309
Feedster, 15–16, 26–27, 132–133, 243
filtering
images, 178
spam, 219
viruses, 219
FindArticles, 122–124
Firefox, 29–33
benefits of, 29
GMail tools, 231
Live Bookmark feature, 29–30
portable version of, 252
recommended book on, 30
RSS support, 29–30
and Thunderbird, 233
where to get, 29
Firefox and Thunderbird Garage, 30
FirstGov, 152–154
forums, 213–216. See also conversations
free services
eSnips, 270
Gmail, 218
Google Alert, 69
Google Groups, 280
intraVnews, 228
Kebberfegg, 138
mailing lists, 279–281
My Yahoo, 37
RawSugar, 194
RMail, 229
RSSFwd, 229
Technorati, 94
WatchThatPage, 47
Yahoo Groups, 281
free software
Cream, 251
EditPad Lite, 251
Firefox, 29
iTunes, 169
Metapad, 251
Net Snippets, 263
NoteTab Lite, 251
Onfolio, 264
Pegasus, 233
Thunderbird, 233
free trials
ChangeDetect, 53
InfoMinder, 50
NewzCrawler, 40
Northern Light, 130
OnlineHomeBase, 271–272
Surfulater, 263
TracerLock, 71
Trackle, 54
Web Watcher, 59
WebSite-Watcher, 56
full-text search engines, 78, 104, 118
Furl, 269
G
gadgets, 255–256
GDS Pro, 257
generator, RSS feed, 143–144
geographic searches, 5
Get a Podcast, 171–172
GIF files, 176–177
Gigablast, 117–118
GMail, 218–234
address construction in, 221–222
alternatives to, 232–233
archiving e-mail in, 226–227
benefits of, 219
deleting e-mail in, 227
forwarding e-mail in, 226
getting account on, 219–220
getting RSS feeds via, 228
searching e-mail in, 227–230
tools, 230–231
tweaking settings for, 224–226
GMail Drive, 231
GMail Loader, 231
GMail Notifier, 230
GMail Preview Bubbles, 231
GMail Tips, 231
GMail Tools, 231
gMailto Bookmarklet, 231
basic vs. advanced search page, 83
blog search engine, 135–136, 243
building queries for, 103
desktop search engine, 255–258
e-mail service. See GMail
finding audio with, 164–165
link syntax, 89
monitoring, 102–104
site syntax, 81
Song Search, 167
title syntax, 80
trapping site links in, 89
Web index, 68
Google Desktop, 255–258
Google Directory, 112
Google Groups, 68, 202–207, 238, 243–244, 280
Google Images, 176–177
Google News, 82, 121, 138, 207, 236–237
govengine, 151
government information, trapping, 149–156
group syntax, 203
Groups
Google, 68, 202–207, 238, 243–244
H
Hedtke, John, 30
HighBeam Library, 124–126
Hofmann, Chris, 30
HomeBase, 271–272
Hoovers, 126–129
hosted blogging, 284–289
hosted wiki services, 298–301
HTML
Code Tutorial, 302
Goodies page, 302
meaning of acronym, 8
monitoring, 44. See also page monitors
purpose of, 8
and search engines, 9
vs. XML, 8–9
Hubmed, 155
hurricane information, 24
hyperlinks. See links
HyperText Markup Language, 8. See also HTML
I
iBoogie, 115
Iceland site, 158–159
ICQ plug-in, 257
images
monitoring, 175–178
searching for, 175–178, 195–198
tagging, 195–198
indexes, search engine, 104, 253
indexing programs, 253
InfoMinder, 50–53
information
organizing, 250–273
publishing, 276–309
trapping. See information trapping
information trapping. See also trapping
applying geographic restrictions to, 5
benefits of, 2–3
case studies, 236–245
defined, 2
delivery methods for, 6
downside to, 3
with e-mail alerts, 62–72. See also e-mail alerts
free vs. fee, 50
and GMail filters, 224
of internal vs. external information, 74–75
manageability vs. completeness in, 75
with page monitors, 44–60. See also page monitors
questions to ask about, 4–6
ways of using, 4
internal information
defined, 74
examples of, 100
information-trapping case study, 241–245
trapping, 88
International Herald Tribune, 10
international sites, monitoring, 156–160
Internet. See also Web sites
killer app, 200
using for research, 2
Internet Archive, 174
Internet Explorer, 39, 256, 261, 270, 271
Internet Underground Music Archive, 173–174
intitle syntax, 80, 104, 111, 204, 205
intraVnews, 228
ISPs, 232
Ithaki, 167
IUMA, 173–174
J
JotSpot, 299–300
JPEG files, 176–177
K
keyword-based RSS feeds
benefits of, 25
defined, 13
finding, 14
and Kebberfegg, 138–141
managing, 138–141
for podcasts, 172–173
Knous, Marcia, 30
L
L-Soft List Catalog, 212–213
Larry’s Help File, 257
Library of Congress, 189
library services, 24
link syntax, 89–90
links
trapping, in RSS feeds, 93–95
trapping general site, 88–93
LISTSERVs, 212–213
Live Bookmark feature, Firefox, 29–30
Live Search, Microsoft, 110–112
LiveJournal, 287
logs, Web site, 98
LookSmart, 122
M
Mac
page monitors, 59–60
search-engine indexers, 253
Mac OS X
RSS feed reader, 40–41
Web browser, 33
mailing lists, 202–213
free, 279–281
Google, 202–207. See also Google Groups
guidelines for, 283
L-Soft List Catalog, 212–213
vs. other types of conversations, 202
paid, 282–283
publishing to, 278–283
starting, 279
TILE.NET, 212
Topica, 210–211
Yahoo, 208–210. See also Yahoo Groups
markups, 8
Media, Blogdigger, 172
Media Drop, The, 22
medical information, 76, 86, 155
Metapad, 251
Microsoft
Internet Explorer, 39, 256, 261, 270, 271
Live Search, 110–112
Office, 255
Outlook Express, 255
MIDI files, 167
minus sign (-), 79–80, 104, 105
mobile phones. See cell phones
monitoring. See also page monitors
Amazon, 144–145
for content snippets, 96–97
conversations, 200–216
eBay, 145–147
general search engines, 102–118
group discussions, 243–244
HTML pages, 44
images, 175–178
international sites, 156–160
links to domains, 89
links to URLs, 89
news, 244–245
news about search engines, 52, 72
news search engines, 118–132
podcasts, 172–173
search engines, 244
stocks, 240–241
videos, 179–184
monitors, page. See page monitors
Mooter, 114–115
Movable Type, 14, 287, 292–294
MP3.com, 174
MSN news search, 122
MSN Search, 110
MSNBC, 122
MTA service advisories, 24
multimedia trapping, 164–185
audio, 164–175
images, 175–178
videos, 179–184
music, 164–165, 173–174. See also audio
My Bookmarks, 269
N
National Hurricane Center, 24
Net Atlantic, 282
Net Snippets, 261–263, 267, 270
NetNewsWire, 40–41
Netscape, 270
New York City transit system, 24
news search engines, 118–132, 237–238, 245
Newsburst, 36–37
newsletters, 279
newspaper feeds, 22
NewzCrawler, 39–40
nlresearch.com, 129
Nooked, 22
Northern Light, 129–132
NoteTab Lite, 251
Notifyr, 198
NucleusCMS, 296
O
ODP, 112–113
Onfolio, 264–267
online forums, 213–216. See also conversations
OnlineHomeBase, 271–272
Open Directory Project, 78, 112–113, 240
“or” searches, 79
organizing information, 250–273
client-side options, 261–267
portable strategy for, 250–252
on single machine, 253–261
with text editor, 250–251
Web-based options for, 268–273
with wikis, 251–252
Outlook Express, 255
Outsourcing to Taiwan case study, 236–241
oxus.net, 24
P
package tracking, 24
page monitors, 44–61. See also monitoring
as alternative to RSS feeds, 8, 44, 45
on Amazon, 144–145
for finding content snippets, 96–97
free vs. fee, 50
how they work, 44
for Mac, 59–60
shutting down, 247
types of, 45–46
when to use, 45
for Windows, 56–59
page-size syntax, 82
PBwiki, 300
PDF documents, publishing, 276–278
Pegasus, 233
photo-sharing services, 176
photographs, 175, 195. See also images
PHP, 309
phrase searches, 80, 86, 104, 105, 107
plus-addressing, 221
pMachine, 295–296
PNG files, 176–177
Podcast Directory, 171
podcasts, 168–173
defined, 168–169
finding, 169–172
listening to, 169
monitoring, 172–173
Podspider, 170
PodZinger, 172–173
POP forwarding, 225
Portable Firefox, 252
primary-source RSS feeds, 14
product coupons, 24
publishing, 276–309
to mailing lists, 278–283
PDF documents, 276–278
text documents, 276–278
via blogs, 284–296
via RSS feeds, 303–309
via wikis, 296–301
Word documents, 276–278
on your own Web site, 301–303
Q
queries, 74–86
adding words to, 77
basic syntax for, 79–80
building. See query-building
excluding words in, 80
for internal vs. external information, 74–75
for searching conversations, 85, 86, 205
for searching within tags, 85
special syntax for, 80–82
and theory of onions, 76–77, 85
using advanced search forms for, 82–84. See also Advanced Search forms
query-building. See also searching
for Ask, 109
for Blogdigger, 134–135
for conversations, 205
for Feedster, 132
for FindArticles, 123–124
for Google News, 121
for HighBeam Library, 125
for Hoovers, 129
for IceRocket, 133
manageability vs. completeness in, 75
for Microsoft Live Search, 111–112
for MSNBC, 122
for Northern Light, 130
for online forums, 214
for Open Directory Project, 112–113
recommended book on, 77
for Sphere, 136–137
for Yahoo, 104–107
for Yahoo Directory, 106–108
for Yahoo News, 119–120
R
ranchero.com, 40
RDF Site Summary, 8. See also RSS
Republic of Iceland site, 158–159
Rich Site Summary, 8. See also RSS
RMail, 229
robotpolishers.com, 24
RSS, 8–41
benefits of, 13–14
as cornerstone of information-trapping strategy, 14, 41
feed readers. See RSS readers
feeds. See RSS feeds
files, 10. See also RSS feeds
getting information-trapping results via, 6
meaning of acronym, 8
tools, 23
as type of XML, 8–10
RSS Auction, 149
RSS Feed button, 15
RSS feed generator, 143–144
RSS feeds, 9–28
anatomy of, 11–12
content distribution via, 303–309
corporate, 22
creating your own, 305–308
defined, 10
directories of, 15–23
eBay, 147
federal government, 153
finding, 14–23
Firefox support for, 29–30
full vs. abbreviated, 304–305
getting via e-mail, 228–229
how Web sites identify, 15
identifying readers of, 98–100
importing/exporting lists of, 36
keyword-based. See keyword-based RSS feeds
making publishable on Web sites, 308–309
My Yahoo support for, 15, 37–38
newspaper, 22
page monitors as alternative to, 8, 44, 45
primary-source, 14
promoting, 305
reading. See RSS readers
searchable subject indexes of, 22–23
shutting down, 246
testing, 308
as type of XML, 9–10
types of, 25–28
ways of using, 24
Yahoo, 92–93
from YouTube, 184
RSS Network, 23
RSS readers, 28–41
categories of, 28
Firefox, 29–30
importing/exporting feeds from, 36
platform options, 28
typical layouts for, 37
Web browsers’ built-in, 29
RSSFwd, 229
S
Safari, 33
Sage, 32–33
Saved Searches feature, Hoovers’, 127
Science.gov, 155
scientific information, 155
search engine indexes, 104, 253
search engines, 75–86. See also Web searches
advanced search forms for, 82–84. See also Advanced Search forms
audio-only, 165–168
basic syntax for, 79–80
and Boolean logic, 79
business, 126
desktop, 253–261
developing queries for, 76–77
for finding RSS feeds, 15–22
how to get the most from, 75–76
monitoring general, 102–118, 244
monitoring news, 118–132
natural language, 108
RSS feeds devoted to, 27
special syntax for, 80–82
types of, 77–79
and XML vs. HTML pages, 9
search queries. See queries
searchable subject indexes. See subject indexes
Searchforvideo, 180–181
searching. See also query-building
Amazon, 142–143
audio, 164–175
conversations, 84, 85, 86, 205, 213–216
e-mail, 227–230
eBay, 145–147
for mailing lists, 208–213
podcasts, 169–172
Usenet, 202–207
for videos, 179–184
SeedWiki, 300–301
service advisories, MTA, 24
Shadows, 200
Shergold, Craig, 201
simpletracking.com, 24
Simpy, 269
Singingfish, 166
site syntax, 81
sixapart.com, 292
Slickdeals, 148
smart quotes, 308
SMS, 6
SmugMug, 176
social bookmarking, 191
Song Search, Google, 167
spam blogs, 133
spam filtering, 219
spammers, 213
Sparklist, 282–283
Sphere, 136–137
spiders, 253
splogs, 133
standalone feed readers. See client-based RSS readers
state sites, 150–152
stemming, 130
stocks, monitoring, 240–241
subject indexes
RSS feed, 22–23
T
Tag Search
IceRocket, 199
Technorati, 198
tag sites, 191–200
BlinkList, 194
del.icio.us, 191–193
RawSugar, 194
Zniff, 194
tagging
images, 195–198
sites, 268–270. See also del.icio.us
tags, 188–200
defined, 84
for photo searches, 195–198
pros and cons of, 189–190
searching blogs with, 198–200
searching within, 85
Taiwan Outsourcing case study, 236–241
technical information, 86
Technorati, 21–22, 93–94, 198, 243
text-based data, 77
text documents, publishing, 276–278
text editors, 250
Textile, 296
Textpattern, 296
The Media Drop, 22
Thunderbird, 233
TiddlyWiki, 251–252
tilde (~), 103
TILE.NET, 212
top-level domains, restricting search to, 81
Topica, 210–211
TracerLock, 71–72
TrackEngine, 49–50
trapping
with Ask, 110
with Blogdigger, 135
city information, 150
commercial information, 142–149
conversations, 200–213
external information, 75, 236–241
with Feedster, 133
with FindArticles, 124
general site links, 88–93
with Google Groups, 202–207
with Google News, 121
government information, 149–156
with HighBeam Library, 126
with Hoovers, 129
internal information, 74, 241–245
international sites, 156–160
with L-Soft List Catalog, 212–213
links in RSS feeds, 93–95
with Microsoft Live Search, 112
with MSNBC, 122
multimedia, 164–185
with Northern Light, 130–132
with Open Directory Project, 113
with Sphere, 137
with TILE.NET, 212
with Topica, 210–211
with Yahoo Directory, 107–108
with Yahoo Groups, 208–210
with Yahoo News, 120
Trendalicious, 193
trial offers. See free trials
trolls, 213
TWiki, 272
TypePad, 287–289
U
UltraEdit, 250–251
UPS package tracking, 24
URLs, monitoring links to, 89
USDA site, 154
USPS package tracking, 24
V
Valpak, 24
videos, 179–184
virus filtering, 219
Vivisimo, 114
W
Watch Lists, Hoovers’, 128
WatchThatPage, 47–48
Web, process for getting information from, 3
Web-based organizing options, 268–273
Web-based page monitors, 45–46, 47–55
Web-based RSS readers, 14, 33–38
Web browsers. See also specific browsers
built-in RSS readers, 29
how RSS feeds are displayed on, 11–12
as information-trapping tool, 8
Web pages
searching titles of, 80–81
searching URLs of, 81
Web search engines. See search engines
Web Search Garage, 77
Web searches. See also search engines
developing queries for. See query-building
recommended book on, 77
Web site logs, 98
Web sites
vs. blogs, 284
creating your own, 301–303
HTML skills required for, 302
making RSS feeds publishable on, 308–309
monitoring for content snippets on, 96–97
planning, 302–303
tagging, 268–270
trapping links to, 88–93
Web Watcher, 59–60
Weblogs, 284. See also blogs
WebSite-Watcher, 50, 56–59, 247
What’s New pages, 150, 151, 158, 160, 161
wiki services, 298–301
WikiOnAStick, 251
Wikispaces, 301
Windows
Live Toolbar, 264
page monitors, 56–59
search-engine indexers, 253–261
Wizz RSS, 30–32
Woot, 148
Word documents, publishing, 276–278
WordPress, 294–295
World Wide Web, 2. See also Web sites
X
Xanga, 287
XML
vs. HTML, 8–9
meaning of acronym, 8
RSS as type of, 8–10
and search engines, 9
XML button, 15
Y
Yahoo
bookmark manager, 269
building queries for, 104–107
desktop search engine, 258–261
e-mail alert service, 64–67
link syntax, 90
narrowing results in, 105
and RSS feeds, 15, 37–38, 66, 92–93
Site Explorer, 90–92
site syntax, 81
title syntax, 80
trapping site links in, 89–90
URL syntax, 81
Web-based e-mail, 232
Web site directory, 78, 106–108, 160, 240
Yahoo Desktop, 258–261
Yahoo Groups, 208–210, 238, 243, 281
Yahoo Images, 178
Yahoo Mail, 232
Yahoo Messenger, 66
Yahoo News, 26, 27, 66, 119–120
Yahoo Podcasts, 170
YayWasTaken.com, 143
Z
Zniff, 194