SAVVY WEB SEARCHING WITH ADVANCED TOOLS & TECHNIQUES ANNE BURNETT UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA SCHOOL OF LAW
SEARCH ENGINES/TOOLS
COMPUTATIONAL KNOWLEDGE ENGINES
QUESTION & ANSWER SITES AskQuora
VIABLE GOOGLE ALTERNATIVES
PRIVACY CONCERNS?
GOOGLE TIPS word order matters (sorta) space = AND capitals ignored except AROUND(x) and OR tilde ~ quotation marks phrase searching & single precise word minus sign –
ADDITIONAL GOOGLE TOOLS what is ___ define: file format filetype:xls –filetype:swf domain restriction site:.gov –site:.com wildcard operator Christopher Columbus died in *
ADVANCED SEARCH BOX Just run search for “Google advanced” to access form
OR site:org
YOURSELF! try narrowing results quotes minus sign AROUND(n) track references to you with Google Alerts runs your search automatically sends at frequency you specify must be signed in to Google
GOOGLE ALERTS
AUTOFILL / AUTOCOMPLETE
SEARCH TOOLS (FILTERS)
GOOGLE SCHOLAR Peer-reviewed papers and law articles Theses & dissertations Books Abstracts Technical reports Case Law (including citator function) May link to subscription sites Can use Advanced Search
DEEP WEB, DARK WEB Deep Web also “invisible web” and “hidden web” web content missed by traditional search engine crawlers/spiders – ogooglebar Dark Web secretive, anonymous uses TOR and bitcoins
DEEP WEB specialized search engines CompletePlanet – indexes over 70,000 databases SurfWax - best “grip” on information (meta-search) Infomine – databases, journals, e-books, bulletin boards, institutional repositories CiteSeer – science focus Wayback Machine – replaced web sites
COMPLETEPLANET
INTERNET ARCHIVE snapshots of sites over time
INTERNET ARCHIVE