1. Found it! Getting the most out of your web searches
Anne Burnett
University of Georgia Law Library
Athens, Georgia

2. Lawyers Use Google for Legal Research
ABA Tech Report 2016
Lawyers average 19% of time conducting legal research
91% use free online resources, either regularly or occasionally
35% start legal research with general search engine

3. Search-related Tidbits
Google and Facebook Policies re Fake News
Big Data and Search Queries

4. Google Still Top Dog > 2,000,000,000,000 searches per year
% market share
Top 2016 searches:
Pokémon Go
iPhone 7
Donald Trump
Prince
Powerball

5. Beyond Google Regular Search: Bing, Yahoo
Privacy: DuckDuckGo, DisConnect, IsQuick
Semantic Search: Omnity
Q&A: Wolfram|Alpha, Quora

6. Lifehacker

7. Google vs. Bing Search Engine Showdown
Better shopping suggestions
Smoother image search
Related searches display at bottom
Reverse image search
Results display as you type
Integration w/ Google products
Better video search
More autocomplete suggestions
More advanced image search options
Related searches display on side
Special advanced search operators

10. Concerned about Privacy and Tracking?
DuckDuckGo
IxQuick
Disconnect
Georgia personal injury checklist

12. Semantic Searching
Omnity

13. Q&A
Wolfram|Alpha: computational
Quora: crowdsourcing

16. Crafting Advanced Search Queries
What do you put in the box?

17. Google Tips word order matters (sorta) space = AND
capitals ignored except AROUND(x) and OR
tilde ~ and OR
quotation marks
phrase searching & single precise word
minus sign –

18. Requiring Exact Word
Google – use quotation marks “childcare” or “child care”
Yahoo – + sign in front of word

19. Proximity
Google - AROUND
Bing – use “near:10” between words

20. Additional Google Tools
what is ___
define:
file format filetype:xls –filetype:mp3
domain restriction site:.gov –site:.com
wildcard operator
Christopher Columbus died in *

21. Advanced search box
Just run search for Google advanced to access page

24. Google “My Activity”

29. Invisible Web
Deep Web
Hidden Web
Dark Web

31. Disappearing sites?