Finding The Best
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The document discusses various Google search tools and strategies for effective web searching, including: - Using keywords, synonyms, and search strings to refine Google queries. - How Google indexes billions of web pages and ranks results based on over 200 factors like popularity. - Tips for using Boolean operators (e.g. quotes, AND/OR), limiting searches by site or file type, and using advanced search features. - Other Google search engines like News, Books and Scholar that provide specialized search of news articles, books and scholarly articles. - Social bookmarking tools like Delicious that allow users to store and share bookmarks across devices and with other users.
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Finding The Best
- 1. MILI 2009 LeAnn Suchy [email_address]
- 2. Today we’ll focus on Search tips and strategies for web searching using Google Additional Google search engines Social bookmarking – Delicious
- 3. The way students search Students want a one-stop shop Don’t often think of additional keywords or search strategies
- 4. Worksheets you can use 21 st Century Literacies worksheet that helps students identify keywords and synonyms, and the bottom of the worksheet helps them put search strings together.
- 5. Worksheets you can use Another 21 st Century Literacies worksheet for keyword and synonym help
- 6. How Google works Googlebot “crawls” billions of web pages and indexes them The indexed pages are then searchable Results are relevancy ranked Over 200 factors determine relevancy, including popularity
- 7. Google search strategies versus Do not need “and” between terms to combine them, but order matters. Place most prominent items first.
- 8. Google search strategies Use quotes for exact phrases Include and exclude words
- 9. Google search strategies Either or Limit to website or domain
- 10. Google search strategies Limit to range of numbers Limit to type of file
- 11. Google search strategies Google can be your dictionary Google can be your calculator
- 12. Other strategies – Google Guide Many other different ways to limit searches: intitle intext allinurl related pages author source
- 13. Other Google search engines
- 14. Google News
- 15. Google News - Archive Click on Advanced Search get to Archive Search…
- 16. Google News – Archive Search
- 17. Google News Archives results
- 18. Google News Timeline results
- 19. Things about Google News Some articles will be pay per view, especially older articles The archives are not all inclusive and only some information is available Next month when we start talking about databases you’ll see a difference between what is here and what is and there
- 20. Google Books
- 22. Google Books book view
- 23. Things about Google Books Many items are not full text Quality of the scanned items is not that great With all the protests to Google Books, things could change - ?
- 24. Google Scholar
- 25. Google Scholar search results
- 26. Google Scholar Advanced Search
- 27. Things about Google Scholar Not all items are full text – many are citations or lead you to places you can purchase full text Don’t assume you have to purchase the item, bring the citation to the library When we look at databases next month you’ll see the difference between databases and Scholar
- 28. Organizing Your Links Social bookmarking – storing bookmarks on the web with a community of people Advantages Bookmarks accessible anywhere (even on some mobile devices) Share with a community of others Create networks and share within networks Find additional websites from others
- 29. Delicious
- 30. Delicious toolbar buttons http:// delicious.com/help/tools The box brings you to your account and the grey tag allows you to bookmark a website in Delicious without ever leaving the website. Brilliant!
- 31. Between now and our meeting… Look at all the stuff under Month 3 in the wiki Use some Advanced Search tips when searching Google Use Google News, Scholar or Book Sign up for a Delicious account and start using it And BLOG!