To demonstrate the types of resources one can find I did a web search for World Cup Soccer on traditional search engines and Web 2.0 Search Engines…
Traditional Search Engines
Google – Notice the number of official sites and news sites this search returns. An example of new web tools that creep in to this search result is wikipedia and the add world cup scores to your google start page. (The new web is about shared authorship and reusable micro content)
Yahoo – Notice that this search also returns results for Official Sites, blogs and opportunities to buy tickets.
Web 2.0 Search Engines
Google Blogsearch – This search filters out the pages that do not allow user participation. You are more likely to get the “average human” perspective from blogs. A pretty neat thing (yes i said neat) but buyer beware you can’t believe everything that you read.
Technorati – (tags) One can search in three ways on technorati for posts, for blogs or for posts tagged with keywords. Notice the difference between each.
- for posts – This returns posts that contain the words World Cup Soccer in the body of the post.
- posts tagged with keywords – Searching tags helps you find posts specifically about world cup soccer as identified by the author.
- for blogs – this returns posts on blogs solely dedicated to the world cup soccer.
Each option narrows the scope of returns which normally increases usefullness of the results.
Delicious – Delicious tracks and searches web pages that other “regular” folk are bookmarking. Notice that the results for this search return both old school web sites and blogs.
