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1 Super Searching Online Search Tips

2 Search Engine Popularity In early 2010, more than half of adults using the Internet used a search engine

3 Privacy and Searching Three-quarters of search users say collecting information to personalize search results is not okay http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2012/Search-Engine-Use- 2012.aspx http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2012/Search-Engine-Use- 2012.aspx

4 Browser Use Statistics June-Dec. 2012

5 Search Engine Optimization Helps webpages move to the top of the results list Designed to “fool” the system Uses coding and/or writing to help a page rank higher in results

6 Search Engine Games http://blindsearch.fejus.com (Bing and Google) http://blindsearch.fejus.com http://blekko.com/ws/you+search+terms+/monte (Bing, Google, and Blekko http://blekko.com/ws/you+search+terms+/monte

7 Advanced Search Features Google http://search.yahoo.com/web/advanced http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en http://www.bing.com

8 Other Search Engines Blekko http://blekko.com http://blekko.com/ws/+/press-videos Slashtag search DuckDuckGo http://duckduckgo.com/ Instant and zero-click results No tracking

9 Proprietary Databases Commercial databases: part of invisible web aka the “deep” web Search engines cover less than 20% of the entire web

10 Scholarly Resources Wolfram Alpha http://www.wolframalpha.com/ Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com/ Microsoft Academic Search http://academic/research.microsoft.com/ EBSCOhost Research Databases http://search.ebscohost.com/ Username: ns021680 Password: password

11 Blast from the Past Wayback machine http://www.archive.org/ CyberCemetery http://govinfo.library.unt.edu Google Cache http://www.google.com Search using cache:URL

12 Media Searching What types of media are commonly searched for? Books/Print Images Video

13 Books/Print Search Project Guttenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/main_page Google Book Search http://books.google.com/ Small Demons http://www.smalldemons.com

14 Image Search Google Images http://www.images.google.com Refine image search to find similar images

15 Photos Flickr http://www.flickr.com Flickr – The Commons Http://www.flickr.com/commons/

16 Art National Library of Medicine Digital Collections http://collections.nlm.nih.gov/muradora/ National Gallery of Art Images (NGA Images) https://images.nga.gov/

17 Videos YouTube http://youtube.com Vimeo http://vimeo.com/

18 Video Libraries PBS Learning Media http://www.pbslearningmedia.org C-SPAN Video Library http://www.c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary/ YouTube EDU http://www.youtube.com/education Lectures Images


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