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The new invisible Web: on searching wikis and tweets and blogs and moreMay 4, 2009 Face it. We are faced with a new invisible Web. These days, when we search, we miss so much of the stuff that appears in new Web formats. the Web 2.0 stuff.For years I told my students that searching Google alone, they missed a huge part of the invisible web that was reachable through databases and through valuable portals (American Memory and Oyez, for instance), best searched with their own interfaces. I've told them that they have a wide assortment of search tools in their toolkit, and that when they searched Google, they might also mosey over to Google Directory, Google Books, Google Scholar, and Google News Timeline I realize now that I was talking about an old invisible Web. We have a new relatively invisible web. Wikis are now an increasingly serious part our webspace. Because they are webpages, they do appear on the results lists of traditional search tools (Wikipedia always makes it towards the top). But independent wikis get buried in long lists of results, unless you remember to use search terms like wiki or brands like wikispaces.com or pbwiki.com to your search. Why search wikis? Wikis contain conference content, collaboratively built professional content, pathfinders, archived student work, archived professional work, media, tutorials, book reviews, and more. Wikis are where I am doing much of my own newer work and I suspect that is true of others. Happily we have new tools to search this wikispace exclusively. 
And then we have video. I've been trying to keep up with those tools on a video pathfinder page. I am sure I missed some of the best of the new search tools. Please feel free to add them to my wikis and in your comments! Posted by Joyce Valenza Ph.D on May 4, 2009 | Comments (3)
May 6, 2009
In response to: The new invisible Web: on searching wikis and tweets and blogs and more Caitlin commented: Try using the Greasemonkey script "Twitter Results in Google Searches" (is.gd/ltm7) to search Twitter from Google. I have found it to be a very useful addition to my toolbox. Another useful tool for searching the Invisible Web is to create a custom search engine - via Google - to search sites that may not normally appear in searches. You can also set preferred sites in using a Google account.
May 6, 2009
In response to: The new invisible Web: on searching wikis and tweets and blogs and more Lisa Stave commented: I liked the idea of opening up these other sites during serching. These other search engines gives more voice to the internet. It would also be nice to open up the internet to help students interview online.
May 8, 2009
In response to: The new invisible Web: on searching wikis and tweets and blogs and more Nuusa Faamoe commented:
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