1. Karen Blakeman, RBA Information Services, Caversham UK
Interlend Interlending without Barriers, 26th – 27th June 2017, Oxford The future of search: technology, politics and humans
Karen Blakeman, RBA Information Services, Caversham UK

2. Publishers charging for open access articles
Political changes, legal and regulatory environment, “right to be forgotten”
“Fake” news, parodies/spoof news, misleading headlines, click bait, deliberate misinformation, incorrect use of terminology,
Publishers charging for open access articles
Disappearing pages/sites/datasets
Geographical restrictions
Mobile first - mobile friendly pages, search and results
Google ever changing, drops terms, rewrites searches
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3. Dark £££ DISCONTINUED Buried Ka-ching! Protected Deep Web No comprendo
Formatted
Inconveniently large
Censored
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5. Satirical/parody news sites
Plenty of them - get to know the main ones. Spoofs are not always obvious in this increasingly bizarre world.
Very different from deliberate fake news.
Donald Trump’s Scottish welcome to be led by Begbie
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6. Misleading headlines
An Independent article as seen on Facebook “Britain just managed to run entirely on renewable energy for nearly six days”
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7. Original article
Half of UK electricity comes from low-carbon sources for first time ever, claims new report
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8. Look at the source code of the page (Ctrl U):
Uses an Open Graph meta tag (og:title) that is used by Facebook rather than the webpage title.
Further details: How to write totally misleading headlines for social media | Karen Blakeman's Blog
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9. 2016 Google Tracker: Everything Google is working on for the new year | Ars Technica
Google = $$$$$
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10. Created by PDC course participants January 2015 Reading
Created by PDC course participants January 2015 Reading. Tutor: Steve Jones, Sector 39
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11. Work in progress on “New Google, New Challenges” workshop September 2015, UKeiG
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12. FAQ: All about the Google RankBrain algorithm http://searchengineland
Google brings store visits to Google Display Network, debuts cross-device retargeting
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13. Never trust Google’s answers or Knowledge Graph Opening hours – True Food, 29th December 2016
Information displayed to the right of the results on laptop/desktop
Fills screen on mobile/tablet
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15. Advanced search – options disappearing with alarming regularity
Choose your search terms carefully
Repeat search terms
Change the order
filetype:, site:
intext: (Google), inbody: (Bing)
Numeric range search (Google only)
electric car production forecasts
Limit by date
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16. Advanced search
“..” around phrases (does not always work) Verbatim (Google only and not reliable) Incognito, Private Browsing (browser features) Country versions of search tools (Google, Bing, Wikipedia etc) Country specific search tools
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18. Alternative search tools
Bing.com, Millionshort.com, DuckDuckGo.com, Yandex.com, Carrotsearch.com Specialist search tools – subjects, types of information, Social media/professional networks Archives – Wayback Machine (archive.org), National Archives ( ( Mementoweb (
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19. Documents – priced or free?
Open access?
Incorrectly paywalled articles
- often reported on Twitter
- Paywall Watch
Google Scholar – clusters
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20. Unpaywall http://unpaywall.org/
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21. People
Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic Search, subscription services Networks – LinkedIn, ResearchGate, Academia Presentations (ppt, pptx, pdf), Slideshare, authorSTREAM, videos (YouTube, Vimeo etc) Blogs, personal web pages, personal archives, Facebook
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22. Get your search strategy sorted Understand how the search engines work Know your search tools Know the commands Subject specific resources Go direct to the source People!
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23. The future of search: technology, politics and humans
Slides and other presentations available for a short time at