1. 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:

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

3. 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

4. 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

5. Let’s try it !
Hands-on exercises