Exploring Ideas with Alternative Search Engines Sometimes you just need to spend some time with the idea. Sometimes you need to see how others have explored this idea before. And sometimes you needs to see more than the few sites that hit the first page of results in a Google Search. A visual clustering searching engine like Tag Galaxy will provide a visual interpretation of your search results. Why stop at Google and Wikipedia? Who knows, you might learn something...else!
Specialized Google Search Engines
Directories
Clustering Search Engines
Metasearch Engines
Subject Specific Search Engines
Domain Specific Search Engines
Content/Modality Specific Search Engines
Other
Strategies
- Browse topics to gauge interest and timeliness.
- Start general research to identify specific sub-topics, research angles, etc.
- Identify discipline/topic specific areas to research and make sure to cover alternative locations beyond "the usual."
- Make sure to search all available resources.
- Make sure to search all available modalities of information (podcasts, videos, blogs, etc.)
- Use topic and discipline specific research resources.
- Search for information about specific resources to help evaluate them.
- Search for information about specific resources to help cross-analyze them.
- Make sure publication of your presentation is added to appropriate bibliographies, databases, search engines, etc.
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