This document provides an overview of Google search strategies and search engines. It discusses how students typically conduct searches, focusing on a single search engine and keywords rather than additional search techniques. Various Google search strategies are then outlined, including using quotation marks for phrases, operators like + - and (), and limiting searches by file type, date range, or site. Other Google tools like News, Books and Scholar are briefly described. The document encourages the reader to practice advanced search techniques and bookmark resources using Delicious before the next in-person meeting.

1. Finding the best on the webGoogle search strategies & search engines MILI 2010-2011 LeAnn Suchy leann@metronet.lib.mn.us

2. Reminder Links in MILI Wiki, under Month 3

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

4. 21st Century Literacies Worksheets you can use with students Identifying Keywords, Synonyms, & Key Phrases

5. 21st Century Literacies Creating An Effective Search Statement Worksheet

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

8. Google search strategies Do not need “and” between terms Order matters, most prominent first Ignore punctuation

9. Google search strategies Use quotes for exact phrases + & - to include and exclude words

10. Google search strategies Either OR (must type in caps) Use parentheses to enclose concepts

12. Google search strategies Limit to type of file

13. Google search strategies Limit to range of numbers with ..

14. Google Guide Many other ways to limit searches: intitle intext allinurl related pages author source

15. Google search strategies Google can be your dictionary with define:

16. Google search strategies Google can be your calculator

18. Google search strategies

19. Google Advanced Search

21. Google News

24. Google News Archive Search

27. Things about Google News Some articles will be pay per view The archives are not all inclusive; only some information available When we talk about databases you’ll see a difference between what is here and what is there

28. Google Books

31. Things about Google Books Many items are not full text But they do have links to libraries Quality of the scanned items is good, but you may find some that are hard to read

32. Google Scholar

34. 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 them and Scholar

35. Between now and our meeting… Look at all the stuff under Month 3 in the wiki, including assignments Use some Advanced Search tips when searching Google And BLOG!

36. When we meet in-person… You’ll learn how to use Delicious to organize your bookmarks Next in-person meetings (always available on the wiki in the Calendar): Sanford - Monday, Oct 11th, 4:45-6:45pm South - Tuesday, Oct 26th, 4-6pm Southwest - Thursday, Oct 28th, 4-6pm