The document provides steps for using Google's advanced search features to find different perspectives on topics from around the world. It explains how to select a specific country in the search settings to view results from that location. An example compares searching for "The Iranian Hostage Crisis" from a North American perspective, which yields no Iranian sources, versus using the country code "IR" to find sources called the "Conquest of the American Spy Den" from Iran. The document encourages understanding different global points of view by refining searches to specific countries or academic websites.

1. Do you know how to use
Google?
I bet you think you do

2. Follow the steps to
understand how to find
others point of view
on the World Wide Web

3. step 1: Search for a topic on Google
then click on the setting icon

4. Step 2
Click Advanced Search

5. Step 3: A lot going on here. You can select many
options.
Example: EDU is higher education
pick a country
No country codes on
this page.
That’s on the last slide
Click here when done

6. Step 4: Results
Here are some
results
One of the goals is
to understand
Global Point of
View

7. Why? Gobel Point of View
When we look up information and resources we default
to the country that we are currently in, North America
in this case.
When looking for different perspectives/point of view we
want to be able to travel the world to find those
perspectives.
It’s not getting on a plane, but its the best we can do.

8. Historic Example:
U.S. compared to Iran (point of view)
Googled: “The Iranian Hostage Crisis”
If you key in “Iranian Hostage Crisis” in Google, and you are
in North America, your search in the top screen will yield no
sources from Iran, despite the fact that this was where the
event took place.
So this is where Wikipedia and other sites come in handy.
We need to find out what it was called in Iran.
Turns out, it was called the Conquest of the American Spy
Den
Googled
site:IR Conquest of the American Spy Den
Using this new search, learners are presented with an
entirely new set of sources, all from Iran. But why stop there?
How do we know these sources are credible? What if we
could isolate our search to sources from Iranian universities?
To access this type of refined search, students can search:
site:ac.ir Chronology of Conquest of the American Spy
Den
*The addition of “ac” indicates an institution of higher
education, much like “.edu” does for American universities.
This example is taken from Allen November training, 2014

9. Tools/resources
http://googleguide.com/
12 Academic Search Engines
Country Codes
You want lessons? here you go. Straight from Google
Punctuation, symbols & operations in search