Google and beyond

And Beyond
How to Find What You’re Looking for on the Internet
A presentation at
The Wadhams Free Library
by Sara Kelley-Mudie
June 15, 2011

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Google doesn’t understand “natural language”
Where and how you search can be as important as what you search for

What are you really looking for?
Words that might be there (or will narrow your result)
Words that will definitely be on a website with the answer to your question
If at first you don’t succeed. . . search, search again!

Google is the new spell check

Limit to government sites—
add site:gov to your search

Limit to edu sites—
add site:edu to your search

A word on domain types
www.google.com
Domain
Restricted domains
Unrestricted domains
.edu
Limited to post-secondary accredited educational institutions
.gov
Limited to U.S. government agencies
.mil
Limited to use by the U.S. military
.com
.org
.info
.net
Anyone can register a site with one of these domains
There are MANY other domains, including country-specific domains (ex. .au, .ca

Search within a particular site

Limit results by eliminating keywords

Picture Perfect
Image: 'Across the Chinese Countryside' http://www.flickr.com/photos/95572727@N00/1341027869

The power of the sidebar

The Wonder wheel can be a great way to narrow search results

Use related search terms to see what keywords other searchers used for the same topic

Image: 'The droids we're googling for' http://www.flickr.com/photos/49462908@N00/3951143570

Find the time

Do the math

Conversions

Game in progress

Local results

Business type + zip code

Wikipedia 101

From Popes to pop culture

Comparing two revisions

Handling vandalism
Over 400 edits in one day

All resources (including this slideshow) available at:
http://bit.ly/googleandbeyond

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