Joe Barker jbarker at library.berkeley.edu Research Quality Web Searching, Part 1 Joe Barker jbarker at library.berkeley.edu John Kupersmith jkupersm at library.berkeley.edu A “Know Your Library” Workshop Teaching Library, University of California, Berkeley Spring 2007 COURSE PAGE URL: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Google.html

Why Google? Biggest web search engine database 25 or more billion pages Results often include what you want Features, shortcuts, special databases & services

Overview How Google works Exploiting Google’s “FUZZY” search options Making your searches more precise Handy tools and shortcuts The best of Google’s family of databases Google Books & Google Scholar

How Google works Spider programs find pages on the public web, build huge database of web pages Search program gives you ways to search this database PageRank™ arranges your results Word proximity and placement Popularity - a link to a page is a vote for it Importance - traffic, popularity of pages linking to a page

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