1. GoogleSmart
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2. Research with Google? Students, teachers, staff—we all use Google
Teachers are overheard telling students:“just Google it”
Students are required to use resources from subscription databases for certain assignments
But we also Google—either as a start, or to check that something obvious wasn’t missed
Google is incredibly powerful
So let’s get better at Googling!

3. Today’s Goals Learn how to use Google better.
Google Advanced
Key Words, Key Phrases
Google Scholar
Discover Google shortcuts and neat “things”

4. Keep in mind: The Invisible Web Google doesn’t search everything…
What search engines choose not to index
“The Invisible Web: Text pages, files, or other often high-quality authoritative information available via the World Wide Web that general-purpose search engines cannot, due to technical limitations, or will not, due to deliberate choice, add to their indices of Web pages. Sometimes also referred to as the “deep Web” or “dark matter…what may be invisible today may suddenly become visible tomorrow.”
“If a Web page has no links pointing to it from any other page on the Web, a search engine crawler can’t find it. These “disconnected” pages are the most basic part of the Invisible Web.” Sherman, Chris and Gary Price, In Library Trends 52 (2) 2003: Organizing the Internet:
“In fact, only a small percentage of the Web’s content is accessible to Google. The term “deep Web” refers to the vast portion of the Web that is beyond the reach of the typical “surface Web” crawlers. Surface Web search engines like Google can’t easily fathom the deep Web because most deep Web content has no links to it.” Sol Lederman, altsearchengine.com, 2009.

5. So let’s find a typical assignment for a young student

6. “find out what bottlenose dolphins eat”
My part of the report:
“find out what bottlenose dolphins eat”

7. “Regular” Google Search

9. In February you would have accessed the next page.

12. Worse results than first Google search!

13. Eliminate the “S”

14. No sports teams but too many!

15. AND, OR, NOT
+ -
“ ”
Google Advanced = Boolean Search + more

16. The Internet is a vast computer database
The Internet is a vast computer database. As such, its contents must be searched according to the rules of computer database searching. Much database searching is based on the principles of Boolean logic. Boolean logic refers to the logical relationship among search terms, and is named for the British-born Irish mathematician George Boole.
On Internet search engines, the options for constructing logical relationships among search terms extend beyond the traditional practice of Boolean searching. This will be covered in the section below, Boolean Searching on the Internet.
Easy Boolean logic

17. AND AND AND
“______”
-______
NOT
AND, OR, NOT
+ -
“ ”

18. NOT Wikipedia

19. Note: you can actually write this in a Google box and get the same results

20. What was the original question?
What do bottlenose dolphins eat?
Think of synonyms for “eat”

21. Our new search
Our New Search

22. 28,200,000 – 128,000 = 28,072,000 FEWER HITS
More results, more focused

23. Further refine your results by choosing a domain . . .
.com commercial sites
.org organizations
.edu educational sites
.gov government sites
.net computer network
.mil military
Note: a ~ in the URL indicates a personal page, so take heed

24. Speaking of Domains…
URLshttp://
Uniform Resource Locator
The web address which connects you to a website
It may give you information before you see the site

25. Narrowing with domain selection
Select a domain to further narrow search

26. Our Final Search…
Now we are down to 2,370 educational sites that will have information about what bottlenose dolphins eat

27. Results #1

28. Result #2

29. Result #3

30. Result #4

31. We had 5 authoritative appropriate useful websites on the first page
While we had two good results with earlier searches,
We did not have enough to compare and verify the information…
Now we do

32. “Good enough” is not the same.

33. Recap Eliminate the “s” Use Boolean logic to narrow the topic
Use the Advanced Search feature
Choose keywords to include & exclude
Select a domain

34. A search for…

35. PowerPoint Presentations

37. Another specific search
Add Region, Domain, Language, Date, Site (youtube.com, teachertube.com)

38. Results
II needed good information originating in Afghanistan about the education of girls

39. Recap Use Advanced Search for file type .ppt, .xls, .pdf
Use the site or domain name, i.e., teachertube.com, yale.edu, .gov, ms.org
Limit by date, region, language, usage rights

40. Google Scholar
You have to know about Google Scholar!

41. Where to find Google Scholar

42. Google Scholar Subject areas Publication Author Dates
Our advanced Google!
Google Scholar
Subject areas
Publication
Author
Dates

43. For example—to find a certain type of journal article about OCD since 2000

44. You may not have full text, but you will find the article citation information and be able to search in subscription databases

45. Quick Specialized Searches

46. Weather

47. on

48. Current time in any city in the world

49. Stock

50. on

51. Without :

52. Now try it with the colon : and see the difference
define: conservative

53. With the colon :

54. Specific Searches
Using a colon (:) makes a difference in some instances
Space after the colon? Doesn’t seem to make a difference

55. Book review search
Book

56. : eliminates info about the movie

57. Google and Advanced Google
Compare Searches
Compare
Google and Advanced Google
For the question:
“After reading The Merchant of Venice, why do some critics think Shakespeare was anti-Semitic?”

58. Click here to get the reviews

59. What’s playing near me?

60. Numbers Tracking number UPS USPS UPC bar codes
Vehicle ID numbers (VIN)
Flight status
Area codes
ISBN

61. Search term: fedex

62. Search term: american 5

63. SEARCH TERM: ADDRESS
SATELLITE VIEW

64. Additional Google Features

65. earth album http://www.earthalbum.com/

66. iGoogle Personal Home Page

67. Google Docs and Spreadsheets

68. Google Alerts
“Kathy Fester”
“information literacy”
desertification

69. But kids are better than adults when they search! (you sure?)
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70. This presentation was built on an earlier PowerPoint by Sharon Gullet
Thank you, Sharon!
Kathy Fester
Shelton School
Updated 9/2009

71. Copyright
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