Google getting you down? Don't let search blues ruin your day! This presentation will show you how to do a proper Google search despite Google. Also, make sure to check out the absolutely excellent Google Guide! http://www.googleguide.com/

1. like a
PRO
Secrets known only to librarians
(and now to you)

2. What is ?

4. No, seriously:
What is ?

5. 1. A search engine
2. A tech company
3. A verb meaning “to look for on the
Internet…with Google.”

6. All of these are Google services
For the most part, they are free.

7. The greatest mystery of them all:
HOW DOES IT
WORK?

9. PageRank
the biggest popularity contest in history
Factors:
• Number of pages linking to a result (it counts these as
“votes”)
• The relative importance of the linking page (a weighted
“vote”)
OUTCOME:
more popular web pages appear at the top of
the results

10. Googlebot
a nicer name for an Internet spider
• Searching software owned by Google
• Discovers pages by following links (“crawling”)
• Makes an index of the web
Pages must be crawled to be searchable on
Google, and they must be linked to other pages
in order to be crawled.

11. How Google thinks
You write:
Dogs cats living together
Google sees:
A and B and C and D

12. AND

13. OR

14. Quotation marks tell Google to
turn two words into one phrase.
You write:
Dogs cats “living together”
Google sees:
A and B and CD

15. Without quotation marks:

16. With quotation marks:

17. Title Searching
“Intitle:” lets you search within the titles of web
pages

18. Without title search:

19. With title search:

20. Search by file type
“filetype:” lets you search by type of file
(especially useful for tax documents!)

21. Without file type search:

22. With file type search:

23. Tax documents!

24. Your #1 Google Resource:
the
GOOGLE
GUIDE!
http://www.googleguide.com/