Tips and Tricks » Search Engines http://www.legend.ws/blog Random tech ramblings Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:11:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Google’s source:life http://www.legend.ws/blog/search-engines/googles-sourcelife/ http://www.legend.ws/blog/search-engines/googles-sourcelife/#comments Sun, 08 Mar 2009 08:18:25 +0000 admin http://www.legend.ws/blog/?p=93 One of the neatest recent additions to Google search is the LIFE photo archive.

Basically, google images is now indexing a large photo archive owned by the famous Life magazine. Many of these images were also never published before. Talk about a jump back into some of the finest moment in history. Some of these photos date back to around the 1750s.

To search this archive for a specific keyword, simply append the following to your search term(s):  source:life

Try some of the following searches for instance:
Blues – Titanic – Gold rush
You may also browse through the …

]]> http://www.legend.ws/blog/search-engines/googles-sourcelife/feed/ 0 Google search tips http://www.legend.ws/blog/tips-tricks/google-search-tip/ http://www.legend.ws/blog/tips-tricks/google-search-tip/#comments Sun, 01 Mar 2009 15:44:22 +0000 admin http://www.legend.ws/blog/?p=86 ‘Face’ photos
When searching for images, you could narrow down your search to ‘faces’. Simply, append ‘&imgtype=face’ to the end of the google images search url.
So if you’re searching for Robert De Niro, try doing it with ‘face’ as image type

File Types
You could specify the type of file you’re looking for. Simply append ‘filetype: type’ to your search query. So if you’re looking for an excel file related to subject Foo, then search for: ‘Foo filetype:xsl’

Site limitation
If you’d like to narrow down your search results to those coming from a certain website, you may …

]]> http://www.legend.ws/blog/tips-tricks/google-search-tip/feed/ 0 Recovering your Journalspace.com blog posts http://www.legend.ws/blog/tips-tricks/recovering-your-livejournalcom-blog-posts/ http://www.legend.ws/blog/tips-tricks/recovering-your-livejournalcom-blog-posts/#comments Sun, 04 Jan 2009 10:37:56 +0000 admin http://www.legend.ws/blog/?p=40 So it seems that journalspace.com is gone for good. For those of you that used to have blogs hosted there, now is the right time to try to recover as much of your blog posts as possible.
Definetly, the only resource that one can think of is search engine cache. Andrew heart seems to have already mentioned this, but let me emphasis on some tips and tricks while doing your search.

Recovering journalspace.com blog posts using google

* To search for all your blog’s cached pages, use:

site:yourusername.journalspace.com

* If there are lots of indexed pages and …

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  • CTRL+T: Open new tab
  • CTRL+W: Close tab
  • CTRL+N: New window
  • CTRL+U: View page’s source code
  • CTRL+J: File download history
  • CTRL+SHIFT+N: Incognito window (no traces in the browser history or cookies)
  • SHIFT+ESCAPE: Google Chrome’s Task Manager (can kill tabs, etc)
  • CTRL+E or CTRL+K: perform a Google search for term(s) you provide
  • CTRL+TAB: Browse through tabs (forwards)
  • CTRL+SHIFT+TAB: Browse through tabs (backward)
  • CTRL+D: Bookmark current page
  • CTRL+F or F3 or CTRL+G: Search current page & highlight search terms (you can move through term occurences by using CTRL+G
    • …
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