Google Suche auf Hochschulen einschränken

Manchmal möchte man seine Suche auf Quellen aus Hochschulen beschränken, etwa um

• akademische Publikationen oder Medien
• Personen an Hochschulen
• Informationen zu Studiengängen
• Vorlesungen, Skripte, ...

zu finden. Hier kann man sich zwei Funktionen der Google-Suche zu Nutze machen.

When trying out the new Google trends gadget I used the "2.0" buzzwords I often come across or even use myself.

When Google announced the termination of the development of Google notebook, I posted on this blog asking for possible alternatives. I got several replies suggesting alternatives. @DrShock and @laikas pointed at the lifehacker blog.

A simple way to find resources published by universities or academic institutions is to use the Google search. The site parameter can be used to restrict the search to the academic domain, if such a domain is defined in the country you are interested in. Unfortunately not all countries do have an academic top level domain. Canada or Germany for example do not have such a top level domain.

Both Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault offer an API  to integrate other systems, eg. systems of health care providers. This is necessary for Google and Microsoft  to provide personal computerized health records (PCHR) with added value services.

I just did a Google search for a software tool, quicky clicked on one of the results and what happend? I got the following warning:

Wonderful! Google did alert me to a potential dangerous website. Going back to the search results I found that the alert was already given there, but I just did not read it thoroughly enough.

The further development of Google Notebook, a useful tool for collecting, organizing, and sharing of web clippings is terminated (Details). While current users might still have access to the tool as is. This means practically that it is dead. Too bad, it was a very handy tool for the collections of resources during a research process. Does anyone know a good alternative?

Google image search has been great. Now it is possible to search the LIFE Photo Archive for their photos, many of them still unpublished. There are two ways to do so:

Google did change its advanced search window. They made it a lot easier to use and it looks now much more simplified.  Some search options are minimized and can be expanded if necessary. Well done. Take a look here: Google Advanced Search .




Lets hope the German version will be available soon.

Thanks to OCR (optical character recognition) technologies Google now indexes and makes available to text searches pdf-documents, that have originally been scanned. While these documents in the past appeared to be images with their content (text) hidden in the image, Google now converts them to html text and indexes their content. These are great news for everyone searching for articles in old scanned journals.
See: Official Google Blog: A picture of a thousand words?