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SAVVY WEB SEARCHING WITH ADVANCED TOOLS & TECHNIQUES ANNE BURNETT UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA SCHOOL OF LAW
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SEARCH ENGINES/TOOLS
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COMPUTATIONAL KNOWLEDGE ENGINES
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QUESTION & ANSWER SITES AskQuora
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VIABLE GOOGLE ALTERNATIVES
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PRIVACY CONCERNS?
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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 –
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ADDITIONAL GOOGLE TOOLS what is ___ define: file format filetype:xls –filetype:swf domain restriction site:.gov –site:.com wildcard operator Christopher Columbus died in *
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ADVANCED SEARCH BOX Just run search for “Google advanced” to access form
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OR site:org
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YOURSELF! try narrowing results quotes minus sign AROUND(n) track references to you with Google Alerts runs your search automatically sends email at frequency you specify must be signed in to Google
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GOOGLE ALERTS
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AUTOFILL / AUTOCOMPLETE
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SEARCH TOOLS (FILTERS)
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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
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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
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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
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COMPLETEPLANET
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INTERNET ARCHIVE snapshots of sites over time 1997 2014
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INTERNET ARCHIVE
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