The search toolkit comes with several options for finding knols. This knol will go through all the options and give some hints on how you can improve your search results to get exactly what you want. Document Type
You can search within Knols, Reviews, Comments or Authors. Where in the document to look
Use this option to restrict where we can look for the word in your query. Always have at least one checked, otherwise we cannot find what you are looking for. Filtering by Time
Language of the document
Select the language that you want to search in. License of the document
You can search for documents belonging to any of the several Creative Comments licenses we allow, for documents with All Rights Reserved. For more information, see Licenses in Knol. Collaboration model of the document
You can search for documents in open, moderated or closed collaboration modes. Show only knols that can be played back in audio form
We are experimenting with a limited number of knols in audio form. You can search for them here, or find them all by checking this box and issuing an empty query.
If you came into the search toolkit by following a link (such as from the What's New panel or the Most Discussed panel on the knol.google.com home page), then some of the search options will already be set for you -- such as a restriction to only search the last 12 hours, or to sort by number of discussions instead of by relevance. Again, you can clear these options using the reset options link.
Queries
When you search, you typically type in a couple of keywords and click search. Those keywords are what we call a query. The search toolkit has four options for entering in your query.- Find documents with these words. Use this option to enter a list of words. It will only return knols that have all the words listed, but not necessarily in the same order or occurring together. For example, [ hello world ], may come up with a document with "hello" in the title and "world" as part of the content.
- Find documents with this exact wording or phrase. Use this option to find an entire phrase exactly as you've written it.
- Find documents with one or more of these words. Sometimes you don't care if all the words in your query appear, but you would like at least one to show up. Using this option will give you that ability. For example, [ foo bar ] OR [ help ] can return knols that have "foo" and "bar" as well as knols that have the word "help."
- Don't show documents that have any of these unwanted words. Use this option to eliminate off-topic knols. For example you are searching for "cars" and you seem to get a lot of knols about the Pixar movie "Cars". You can type in [pixar] or [disney] in this field to remove knols that have any mention of those words to help find your knol about automobiles.
Document Type
You can search within Knols, Reviews, Comments or Authors. Note: Selecting a document type changes the options available on the remainder of the page.
Where in the document to look
Use this option to restrict where we can look for the word in your query. Always have at least one checked, otherwise we cannot find what you are looking for. For example, to find knols written by people named "Smith", use [smith] as your query and uncheck all of the boxes except for "author names".
What do you want to search?
This option lets you restrict what kind of knols you are looking for.- Search all published documents. This option lets you look through all the published knols. This is most likely what you want to do if you are just looking for a topic in general. It should be noted that reviews are not found by this feature.
- Search only my documents. This option lets you restrict the search to only the knols you have authored or co-authored. If you have written a lot of knols, you may find this more useful than the "Also Wrote" list. You can give no keywords and it will list all your knols, the same as the "Also Wrote" list.
- Search only documents by the author(s) of <Knol Title>. If you came to the Search Toolkit from a knol, you will see this option. This lets you search the pages of the author(s) of the knol you just came from. For example, if I just came from a knol by John Doe, using this option I can search the content of knols John Doe has written. If you don't give any keywords with this option you will see all the published knols by John Doe.
- Search only documents by the author(s) of this knol (enter the address of the knol): Similar to the "Search only documents by the author(s) of <Knol Title>", this will let you search through all the knols written by authors of the knol you specify. This will only work for URLs that come from a knol. If there are multiple authors it will go through all of them (not just the first author listed). If you don't give any keywords with this option you will get a list of all their published knols.
Filtering by Time
- Last Edit Date. Use this option to find recently edited knols. You must provide a query of some sort along with this option to see any results. This is useful to restrict your exploration to knols that are works-in-progress or being actively maintained.
- Creation Date. Use this option to restrict the search by when a knol was made. You must provide a query of some sort along with this option to see any results.
Language of the document
Select the language that you want to search in. License of the document
You can search for documents belonging to any of the several Creative Comments licenses we allow, for documents with All Rights Reserved. For more information, see Licenses in Knol. Collaboration model of the document
You can search for documents in open, moderated or closed collaboration modes. Show only knols that can be played back in audio form
We are experimenting with a limited number of knols in audio form. You can search for them here, or find them all by checking this box and issuing an empty query. Sort results by
Usually when you search there is more than one result. You can use this option to help sort those results you want up top. By default we add a "relevance" sort that tries to return knols that are most relevant to your query. But you can also sort by the knol's last edit date or its creation date. For example, if you want the most recent knols that have the word "Movies" in it, sort by last modified. But if you want the oldest knol made, sort by Creation date and reverse the sort to put the oldest ones first.
Show only knols that contain a ...
You can constrain your search to only return results that contain embedded content of a specific type. The supported content types include Calendar, Document, Picasa Slideshow, Presentation, Spreadsheet, Spreadsheet Form, Video.
How many results to show
This lets you increase how many results show per page. It may take a little longer per page to show up and you'll have more to go through per page, so adjust to your liking.Repeating variations of your queries
Once you have issued a search using the search toolkit, you can perform a new search with all of the options the same, but just with the query words changed, by typing the new query words into the search box and pressing search. The other options remain set until you either select the reset options link, or reload the page.If you came into the search toolkit by following a link (such as from the What's New panel or the Most Discussed panel on the knol.google.com home page), then some of the search options will already be set for you -- such as a restriction to only search the last 12 hours, or to sort by number of discussions instead of by relevance. Again, you can clear these options using the reset options link.
Saving and Reissuing Search Queries
If you have a particular Search Toolkit query that you frequently repeat, perhaps with small variations, use your browser's Bookmarks feature to save that query. You can reissue the query whenever you like by visiting that bookmark.Here are some examples of bookmarked search queries:
- Knols written by Knol Help
- Recently created knols in any language
- Recently created English knols
- Recently modified English knols
- Recently edited knols with high numbers of page views or comments
Vaidheeswaran Sivanesan
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reg: Search for knols that link to this page
Pls. explain.
If any other knols include hyperlinks to the knol that you are viewing, then clicking on "Search for knols that link to this page" will find them.
The majority of knols have no such inbound links, but knol authors who manually cross link their knols will be able to find them.
This link is especially useful for authors who are maintaining collections of knols, and want to update links as pages are reorganized or removed.
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Knol Help
How can i find my article on google.com?
http://knol.google.c
Visibility on Google.com search. The Knol website is treated the same as any other large, commercial website by google.com search. It will generally take a few days for new knols to become visible on google.com, but not all pages may be readily findable. Creation of a knol is by no means a guarantee of competitiveness in google.com search rankings. In fact, we explicitly discourage some overly commercial content as described in our Content Policy. Pages that are duplicates of other web content, or that "spammy", may be blocked from appearing.
For a simple introduction on how Google ranks web pages, see this Google Technology Overview. If you are interested in how to make web content more findable in general, you can visit Google's Webmaster Guidelines page. If you publish on Knol, you get the benefit that we automate many of the best practices for making web pages search engine friendly.
F.C. Harris DSc
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custom search box
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tpvibes
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Random arcticle
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Narayana Rao K.V.S.S.
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Temporary search problem
Knol Authors and Visitors - Bulletin Board November 2008
http://knol.google.c
We did have a few people describe a period of time where My Knols was not getting updated. We will look into why that occurred. Let us know if you see any ongoing problems.
We do not have an official bulletin board for knol authors, but we do agree that our community-related feature can and should be improved.
Cheers.
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