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freeDive allows anyone to use Google spreadsheets to build searchable databases that can be personalized, curated and published online.

Key features include: 

• Results are presented in an interactive, sortable table 
• Wizard walks you through creating a search widget
• Customize the interface with your filters
• Embed code to publish anywhere 
• Open-source

Free to use.

• Try it out now: 
  http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/tools/freedive/wizard 
   
• Example: http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/tools/freedive/example 
   
• Find out more: 
  http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/tools/freedive/ 
   
• FAQ: http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/tools/freedive/faq 
   
• Contact info: 
  http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/contact/ 

Built by Len De Groot and Scot Hacker

Looks like a useful - and free to use - resource for the commited data analyst/researcher.

Fabulous - and so useful for librarians!

O Google já tem substituto: Blekko.

Os media sociais e a curadoria ao serviço da pesquisa (e vice-versa).

Resultados de pesquisas adaptados ao tamanho do monitor que estamos a usar e organizados por categorias de diferentes cores.

Muitos anos e muitos milhões de dólares depois, o Blekko está pronto para ser o motor de busca de referência.

Experimentem! Vale a pena!

Blekko agrupa visualmente las búsquedas de contenido.

For digging deeper

The Avoca Learning platform is a web service which facilitates the finding, collection and organizing of vetted learning resources from dozens of the leading educational sites.

The platform already offers over 20,000 resources from over 35 leading education sites. In the near future new educational resources in the fields of of Language Arts/Reading, and History/Social Studies will be added.

Users can search the already vetted and curated resources and then collect and organize them into specific "albums" dedicated to specific topics.

From the official site: "The Avoca Learning Platform brings together thousands of online learning resources that students, parents and teachers can search, manage and share.

Whether you’re looking for a very specific resource for a single concept (equivalent fractions, for example) or a collection of content that’s aligned to an entire course, the Avoca Learning Platform provides a powerful curation engine to bring you the resources you need, when you need them."

"Avoca Learning helps to solve that problem by finding and indexing the best digital content, allowing users to organize and save that content, and then making it easy to share that curated content with other users."

Curated results can also be filtered by subjects, topics, resource type, media type and grade level.

Free to use.

Try it out now: http://avocalearning.com

Video tutorial on how "search" works in Avoca: http://vimeo.com/63171301

How it works: http://www.avocalearning.com/how-it-works/

Wow this is really great!

Ferramenta para filtrar as informações relevantes da net e aprimorar a curadoria de conteúdo para fins de estudo ! Vale a consulta .