Super Searching Online Search Tips
Search Engine Popularity In early 2010, more than half of adults using the Internet used a search engine
Privacy and Searching Three-quarters of search users say collecting information to personalize search results is not okay aspx aspx
Browser Use Statistics June-Dec. 2012
Search Engine Optimization Helps webpages move to the top of the results list Designed to “fool” the system Uses coding and/or writing to help a page rank higher in results
Search Engine Games (Bing and Google) (Bing, Google, and Blekko
Advanced Search Features Google
Other Search Engines Blekko Slashtag search DuckDuckGo Instant and zero-click results No tracking
Proprietary Databases Commercial databases: part of invisible web aka the “deep” web Search engines cover less than 20% of the entire web
Scholarly Resources Wolfram Alpha Google Scholar Microsoft Academic Search EBSCOhost Research Databases Username: ns Password: password
Blast from the Past Wayback machine CyberCemetery Google Cache Search using cache:URL
Media Searching What types of media are commonly searched for? Books/Print Images Video
Books/Print Search Project Guttenberg Google Book Search Small Demons
Image Search Google Images Refine image search to find similar images
Photos Flickr Flickr – The Commons
Art National Library of Medicine Digital Collections National Gallery of Art Images (NGA Images)
Videos YouTube Vimeo
Video Libraries PBS Learning Media C-SPAN Video Library YouTube EDU Lectures Images