“Getting FREE of Google’s Grip”
MY THOUGHTS IN ALL CAPS
Howie DiBlasi http://www.drhowie.com PRESENTATION WILL BE POSTED TOMORROW APPROX. 5PM
Presentation came out of conversation with Will Richardson, David Jakes about whether Google has too much power.
1) Thunderbird – alternative to Gmail…open source, ACTUALLY AN ALTERNATIVE TO Outlook Express…
2) 30 Boxes – Calendar software
3) Netvibes – Alternative to Google Reader…DEFINITELY AGREE WITH THIS ONE…LOVE ABILITY TO MAKE A PUBLIC RSS FEED PAGE
4) Zoho Office Suite – Alternative to Google Docs…lots of other options…has a database…Howie says there is better presentation software…Good chance Google will purchase this one…
5) Peepel – Alternative to Google Docs also…free…but maybe not forever…THIS IS THE ENVIRONMENT WE LIVE IN WHEN FOLKS HAVE TO MONETIZE…
6) Bloglines – Google Reader
7) Zimbra Collaboration – Google Docs…free for 60 days…then have a server edition that can be purchased…
8) ThinkFree Online – cell phone alternative editor for docs and spreadsheets
9) OpenOffice.org – Alternative to Google Docs/Spreadsheets
10) Flickr – Alternative to Picasa…have an education edition…NEED TO LOOK INTO THIS STILL…
Top 5 Search Engines of the Past 60 Days
- Yahoo
- Bing – has purchased Yahoo’s technology, so there are similar results…using about 80% of the technology
- Ask
- AOL Search
Yahoo and Bing provided 3 million + results for British General Thomas Gage…Google 178,000…AOL Search 92,000…Kids still can’t sort through all that
Need to discuss Advanced Search with kids…DEFINITELY A BIG DISCUSSION TO HAVE…
Use “only search from this domain” to put in country codes and get results from only that country…AMAZING THOUGHT *SMACKING FOREHEAD* FOR NOT THINKING ABOUT THAT ALREADY…
Google Advanced does have Creative Commons search…
Powered By Google means they pay Google for a percentage of Google Search technology…Bing has paid for a high percentage of Google’s Search Technology
FactBites – search through encyclopedias…more specific than Google…includes Encarta, Wikipedia
Quintura – Kid safe searching, with word clouds of related terms
Clusty – gives you clustered search results and their sources…categorized search…recently renamed Yippy and modified some
Web’s Best Search Engine List – many of them no longer exist…
10 Best Search Engines of 2010…Reader Favorites…relevant, uncluttered, good results
- Cuil – now defunct…
- Duck Duck Go – gives summaries of the articles, not first words
- Ask
- Clusty…recently renamed Yippy
- Webopedia – looks at specific technology items and terminology for non-technical people
- Yahoo
- Bing
- Mahalo – pay people to edit and sift through search results and rank them…claim better results due to that…
- Google – people need to know about Wonder Wheel and Time Frame
- The Internet Archive – WayBackMachine and Podcast hosting
Blog Search Engines
Book Search Engines
Game Search Engines
Human-Powered Search Engines
Image Search Engines
Invisible Web Search Engines…lots of things Google does not search, this helps find some of that info
Map Machine from National Geographic
Web of Trust – add-on that warns about risky websites and content
Kathy Schrok’s Guide for Educators
Weebly for building websites
Edmodo – social learning environment
PrimaryPad – EtherPad clone…has graphics built in as well…
AMAZING OVERVIEW OF TONS OF SITES TO DIG THROUGH FURTHER IN THE NEXT WEEK OR SO…THANKS HOWIE!!
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