MILI 2009 LeAnn Suchy [email_address]

Today we’ll focus on Search tips and strategies for web searching using Google Additional Google search engines Social bookmarking – Delicious

Search tips and strategies for web searching using Google

Additional Google search engines

Social bookmarking – Delicious

The way students search Students want a one-stop shop Don’t often think of additional keywords or search strategies

Students want a one-stop shop

Don’t often think of additional keywords or search strategies

Worksheets you can use 21 st Century Literacies worksheet that helps students identify keywords and synonyms, and the bottom of the worksheet helps them put search strings together.

Worksheets you can use Another 21 st Century Literacies worksheet for keyword and synonym help

How Google works Googlebot “crawls” billions of web pages and indexes them The indexed pages are then searchable Results are relevancy ranked Over 200 factors determine relevancy, including popularity

Googlebot “crawls” billions of web pages and indexes them

The indexed pages are then searchable

Results are relevancy ranked

Over 200 factors determine relevancy, including popularity

Google search strategies versus Do not need “and” between terms to combine them, but order matters. Place most prominent items first.

Google search strategies Use quotes for exact phrases Include and exclude words

Google search strategies Either or Limit to website or domain

Google search strategies Limit to range of numbers Limit to type of file

Google search strategies Google can be your dictionary Google can be your calculator

Other strategies – Google Guide Many other different ways to limit searches: intitle intext allinurl related pages author source

Other Google search engines

Google News

Google News - Archive Click on Advanced Search get to Archive Search…

Google News – Archive Search

Google News Archives results

Google News Timeline results

Things about Google News Some articles will be pay per view, especially older articles The archives are not all inclusive and only some information is available Next month when we start talking about databases you’ll see a difference between what is here and what is and there

Some articles will be pay per view, especially older articles

The archives are not all inclusive and only some information is available

Next month when we start talking about databases you’ll see a difference between what is here and what is and there

Google Books

Google Books results

Google Books book view

Things about Google Books Many items are not full text Quality of the scanned items is not that great With all the protests to Google Books, things could change - ?

Many items are not full text

Quality of the scanned items is not that great

With all the protests to Google Books, things could change - ?

Google Scholar

Google Scholar search results

Google Scholar Advanced Search

Things about Google Scholar Not all items are full text – many are citations or lead you to places you can purchase full text Don’t assume you have to purchase the item, bring the citation to the library When we look at databases next month you’ll see the difference between databases and Scholar

Not all items are full text – many are citations or lead you to places you can purchase full text

Don’t assume you have to purchase the item, bring the citation to the library

When we look at databases next month you’ll see the difference between databases and Scholar

Organizing Your Links Social bookmarking – storing bookmarks on the web with a community of people Advantages Bookmarks accessible anywhere (even on some mobile devices) Share with a community of others Create networks and share within networks Find additional websites from others

Social bookmarking – storing bookmarks on the web with a community of people

Advantages

Bookmarks accessible anywhere (even on some mobile devices)

Share with a community of others

Create networks and share within networks

Find additional websites from others

Delicious

Delicious toolbar buttons http:// delicious.com/help/tools The box brings you to your account and the grey tag allows you to bookmark a website in Delicious without ever leaving the website. Brilliant!

Between now and our meeting… Look at all the stuff under Month 3 in the wiki Use some Advanced Search tips when searching Google Use Google News, Scholar or Book Sign up for a Delicious account and start using it And BLOG!

Look at all the stuff under Month 3 in the wiki

Use some Advanced Search tips when searching Google

Use Google News, Scholar or Book

Sign up for a Delicious account and start using it

And BLOG!