I research quite a lot online. Over the years, I've developed a structured approach which I call the '5 steps from the single Google Search to a Collective Intelligence'. I will detail that approach and related tools in this article.
1. Search Better
1.1 Fine-tune Google
1.2 Enhance with Add-ons
- Surf Canyon
- Deeperweb
1.3 Use Alternative Engines
1.4 Focus with Specific Engines
- People: Pipl, Spock, 123people
- Business: business.com, bnet
- Press:
- Blogs: icereocket
- Discussions: Twitter Search
- Scientific:
1.5 Use Meta Engines
1.6 Dig into the deep Web
2. Structure
2.1 Organize your engines
2.2 Use RSS feeds
2.3 Compose & Filter RSS
- Yahoo Pipes, Grazr
2.4 Organize alerts
3. Socialize
3.1 Join conversations
3.2 Contribute
3.3 Interact
4. Systemize
4.1 Organize an ecoystem
4.2 Interconnect
4.3 Feed & tease
5. Specialized Software
- AMI Software
- Arisem
- Digimind
- Qwam
- Iscope
- KB Crawl
- Ixxo
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