Google better! Benefits and features of Advanced Google and Google Scholar. Appropriate for Middle School up.

1. GoogleSmart
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2. Research with Google?
• Students, teachers, staff—we all use Google
– Teachers are overheard telling students: “just Google it”
• Students are required to use resources from subscription
databases.
– Subscription services are more authoritative, valid, easier to use,
and easier to cite.
• But we also Google—either as a start, or to check that
something obvious wasn’t missed
• Google is incredibly powerful
• So let’s get better at Googling!
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3. Today’s Goals
• Learn how to use Google better.
– Google Advanced
– Key Words, Key Phrases
– Google Scholar
• Discover Google shortcuts and neat
“things”
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4. Keep in mind: The Invisible Web
Google doesn’t search everything…
• What search engines choose not to index
– “The Invisible Web: Text pages, files, or other often high-quality authoritative
information available via the World Wide Web that general-purpose search
engines cannot, due to technical limitations, or will not, due to deliberate choice,
add to their indices of Web pages. Sometimes also referred to as the “deep Web”
or “dark matter…what may be invisible today may suddenly become visible
tomorrow.”
– “If a Web page has no links pointing to it from any other page on the Web, a
search engine crawler can’t find it. These “disconnected” pages are the most
basic part of the Invisible Web.” Sherman, Chris and Gary Price, In Library Trends 52 (2) 2003: Organizing the
Internet: 282-298
– “In fact, only a small percentage of the Web’s content is accessible to Google.
The term “deep Web” refers to the vast portion of the Web that is beyond the
reach of the typical “surface Web” crawlers. Surface Web search engines like
Google can’t easily fathom the deep Web because most deep Web content has
no links to it.” Sol Lederman, altsearchengine.com, 2009.
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5. So let’s find a typical
assignment for a young student
“find out what bottlenose
dolphins eat”
(This is my part of the report)
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6. A “Regular” Google Search
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10. Many of us do this
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11. Worse results than
first Google search!
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12. Eliminate the “s” and look at
drop down suggestions
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13. ut too
No sports teams b
many hits!
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14. 1. Click Wheel Box
for Drop Down Menu
AND, OR, NOT
+ - 2. Click Advanced search
(Boolean Search)
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15. Google Advanced
Search Box
gic—
Bool ean lo
E asy
the boxes
fill in
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16. Red words are
“implied”—you don’t
put them in
AND AND AND
“______”
-______
NOT
AND, OR, NOT
+ -
“ ” EXACTLY
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17. NOT Wikipedia
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18. Note:
you can
actually
write
this in a
Google
box and
get the
same
results
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19. What was the original question?
• What do bottlenose dolphins eat?
Think of synonyms for “eat”
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20. OurOur New Search
new search
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21. 28,200,000 – 128,000 = 28,072,000
FEWER HITS
But still too many!
More results, more focused
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22. Further refine your results
by choosing a domain . . .
.com commercial sites
.org organizations
.edu educational sites
.gov government sites
.net computer network
.mil military
Note: a ~ in the URL indicates a personal page, so take heed
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23. Speaking of Domains…
URL
http://www.si.umich.edu/Art_History/
demoarea/details/1953_1.50.html
Uniform Resource Locator
 The web address which connects you
to a website
 It may give you information before
you see the site—can you tell anything
about this URL?
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24. Narrowing with domain selection
Select a domain to
further narrow search
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25. Our Final Search…
Now we are down to 2,370
educational sites that will
have information about
what bottlenose dolphins
eat
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26. Results #1
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27. Result #2
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28. Result #3
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29. Result #4
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30. We had 4
authoritative
appropriate
useful
websites
on the first page
While we had two good results with earlier searches,
We did not have enough to compare and verify the information…
Now we do
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31. “Good enough” is not the same
as “good.”
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32. Recap
• Eliminate the “s”
• Use Boolean logic to narrow the topic
• Use the Advanced Search feature
• Choose keywords to include & exclude
• Select a domain
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33. Tips when Google Searching
• Search is always case insensitive
• Generally, punctuation is ignored,
including @#$%^&*()=+[] and other
special characters.
• Keep it simple.
• As few terms as possible
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34. New Google Search String
In the Google search box:
filetype:pdf migration intitle:distance of "monarch butterfl*”
This says that I am search for:
• A pdf type file
• About migration
• In the title has to be the word distant
• It needs to have the exact phrase monarch butterfly or
monarch butterflies
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35. A search for…
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36. PowerPoint Presentations
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38. Another specific search
Add Region,
Domain, Language,
Date, Site
(youtube.com,
teachertube.com)
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39. Results
II needed good
information
originating in
Afghanistan about
the education of
girls
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40. Recap
• Use Advanced Search for file
type .ppt, .xls, .pdf
• Use the site or domain name, i.e.,
teachertube.com, yale.edu, .gov, ms.org
• Limit by date, region, language, usage
rights
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41. Google Scholar
You have to know about Google Scholar!
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42. Where to find Google Scholar
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43. For example—to
find a certain
type of journal
article about
OCD since 2000
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44. You may not have full
text, but you will find
the article citation
information and be
able to search in
subscription
databases
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45. Google More…
• For special features and searches in
Google go to “more”
• and then “Even more”
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46. But kids are better than adults
when they search! (you sure?)
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47. Kathy Fester, MLS
Researchwithkathyfester.wordpress.com
kfester@gmail.com
Updated 2/5/2012
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