Resource Handout for "Beyond Google" presentation from Ohio Library Council Chapter Conferences 2014.

1. presented by Don Boozer & Bill Meltzer
Ohio Library Council Chapter Conferences 2014
Supplemental Resource Handout
Preliminary Discussion Materials
“Your Face and Name Will Appear in Google Ads Starting Today” Gizmodo (November 11, 2013)
http://gizmodo.com/googles-going-to-start-sticking-your-face-and-name-in-1443861985/1462317340/@ace
“Google-Military-Surveillance Complex” PandoDaily (March 7, 2014)
http://pando.com/2014/03/07/the-google-military-surveillance-complex/
“Google? Evil? You have no idea” InfoWorld (March 13, 2014)
http://www.infoworld.com/t/cringely/google-evil-you-have-no-idea-238288?page=0,0
Google Inc. NetPAC activity (from Open Secrets.org)
https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?strID=C00428623
“Going Beyond Google Again” American Libraries, March/April 2014, p.48-51.
http://www.americanlibrariesmagazine.org/issue/marchapril-2014
Google Alternatives Covered in Presentation
I. Google Search
IA. Discussion
“Google Users May See Up To A Dozen Experiments” Search Engine Land, Barry Schwartz
http://searchengineland.com/just-testing-google-searchers-may-see-up-to-a-dozen-experiments-141570
What is the Deep Web? (infographic from CNN Money)
http://money.cnn.com/infographic/technology/what-is-the-deep-web/?iid=EL
“How Search Engines Rank Web Pages” Search Engine Watch, David Harry
http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2064539/How-Search-Engines-Rank-Web-Pages
“Search Engine Optimization and User Behavior” (2011)
http://www.hastingsresearch.com/net/09-SEO-ELIS-encyclopedia-article.html
IB. Search Engine Alternatives
DuckDuckGo – https://duckduckgo.com/ (and http://ddg.gg)
“Advanced” Search: https://duckduckgo.com/goodies
Ixquick – https://www.ixquick.com/
Advanced Search: https://www.ixquick.com/eng/advanced-search.html?&cat=web&query
blekko - http://blekko.com/
Million Short - https://millionshort.com/
Bing - http://www.bing.com/
Bing It On: bing vs. Google - http://www.bingiton.com/
“Microsoft's Bing search engine will power the Yahoo website...” (2009)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8174763.stm

2. II. Specialized Search Examples
WolframAlpha - http://www.wolframalpha.com/
OEDB: Open Education Database – http://oedb.org/ilibrarian/research-beyond-google/
“Research Beyond Google: 119 Authoritative, Invisible, and Comprehensive Resources”
JISC Inform “Ten search engines for researchers”
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/inform/inform37/SearchingBeyondGoogle.html#.Uxobq_mwL92
III. Books
Hathi Trust - http://www.hathitrust.org/
Internet Archive - https://archive.org/
Texts - https://archive.org/details/texts
IV. Alternatives to Drive
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57419587-93/google-drive-is-not-for-everyone-so-try-these-alternatives/
Dropbox – https://www.dropbox.com/
Box – https://www.box.com/
Zoho – https://www.zoho.com/
V. Supplemental Resources
Karen Blakeman – “Anything but Google: You can say ‘NO’ to Google” (118 slides! Highly recommended)
http://www.slideshare.net/KarenBlakeman/anything-but-google-you-can-say-no-to-google
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A Google-Free Pledge
As an experiment in exploring diverse resources and stretching my
abilities as an information professional, I, ________________________,
commit to not utilizing Google’s search and other resources in my work
for ______ (circle one) hour(s)/day(s)/week(s) beginning ____/____/20____.
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(signature)
If you take the pledge, feel free to share your experience with the
presenters at don@cpl.org and/or wmeltzer@worthingtonlibraries.org