to google and beyond

To Google and Beyond

Keith Schroeder, LMSBay Port High School

Teaching Search Strategies

• Web Search – Strategies in Plain English

• Boolify Project

• Boolean Machine

• Common Craft Video

• Yippy, (formerly Clusty)

• Search Engine Relationship

Refinement Tools Within Google

• Advanced Searching

• Google Related Search

• Wonder Wheel

• Google Timeline

Google Labs Items

• Google News Timeline

• Google Scholar

• Google Squared

Firefox Add-ons for Improved Searching

• Googlepedia

• Ambiently

• Cloudlet

• DeeperWeb

Real-time Search Engines

• Scoopler

• OneRiot

• Collecta

• Twitter

Deep Web

• Google can only index the visible web, or searchable web. But the invisible web, or deep web, is estimated to be 500 times bigger than the searchable web.

Deep Web Examples

• Librarian’s Guide to the Internet

• WWW Virtual Library

• GPO Access

• Web Lens

• Infomine

• Invisible Web Gateways on Ask.com

• Pipl - People Search

• Google Scholar

Kid-Friendly Search Environments

• Kido’z

• KidRex

• Quintura Kids

• CyperSleuth Kids

• KidsClick

A few others

• Free Online Books 

• Listservs

• WHOIS 

Evaluating Electronic Text• Kathy Schrock's Guide

• Cyberbee Web Evaluation

• 21st Century Information Fluency Evaluation Wizard

• SPAT Web Evaluation Tool

• Readability

Web Evaluation Activity– Bogus or Fake Websites– My delicious links on web evaluation

To Google and Beyond

Keith Schroeder, LMSBay Port High School