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Delicious Search
Searching Delicious produces different results from standard search engines. When you login to Delicious, the upper right corner provides a search box. Clicking on the triangle gives you several search options:



Note that you can search your own bookmarks, your network's bookmarks, or everyone's bookmarks. Choose the last option, //Everyone's Bookmarks//. Now type in the search term OLPC. Note the blue numbers by the entries:

These determine the number of people who have bookmarked this site. The higher the number, the more "popular" the site. If you click the blue number, you can even view which people tagged the site.

The results here will not provide the massive numbers of websites of conventional search engines, but the listings are sites that people have designated worthy of being bookmarked. Delicious has a human evaluation element missing in many search engines. It doesn't mean each site meets your need, but you know that someone found it worth saving.

Now try a search on MP3. Note how popular some of these sites are--ten's of thousands of people have tagged some of these sites. Delicious is a great source to learn how to break into a new technology as well as technologies you are very familiar--you can see what sites people find most useful.

The searches we have done are for words anywhere in the notes or tags of each bookmark. You can also search by tags. Just click on any tag on one of the bookmarks. You can type more tag terms to keep narrowing the search:



Now it's your turn. **Do your own search in Everyone's Bookmarks and narrow the search with at least 3 levels of tag clusters.**