finding the best on the web
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This is a PPT from a webinar on using Google to your advantage, so search strategies are outlined.TRANSCRIPT
MILI 2010-2011LeAnn Suchy
Finding the best on the webGoogle search strategies & search engines
Links in MILI Wiki, under Month 3Reminder
The way students search
Students want one-stop shop
Don’t often think of additional keywords or search strategies
21st Century Literacies
Worksheets you can use with students
Identifying Keywords, Synonyms, &Key Phrases
21st Century Literacies
Creating An Effective Search Statement Worksheet
Googlebot “crawls” billions of web pages and indexes them
The indexed pages are searchable
Results are relevancy rankedOver 200 factors determine relevancy, including popularity
How Google works
Google search strategiesDo not need “and” between terms
Order matters, most prominent first
Ignore punctuation
Google search strategies
Use quotes for exact phrases
+ & - to include and exclude words
Google search strategies
Either OR (must type in caps)
Use parentheses to enclose concepts
Google search strategiesLimit to website with site:
Limit to domain with site:• com, edu, org, gov
Google search strategies
Don’t forget the minus symbol to exclude some domains
Google search strategies
Limit to type of file
Google search strategies
Limit to range of numbers with ..
Many other ways to limit searches:intitleintextallinurlrelated pagesauthorsource
Google Guide
Google search strategies
Google can be your dictionary with define:
Google search strategiesGoogle can be your calculator
Google search strategies
Google Advanced Search
Google News
Google News Archive Search
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
Things about Google News
Google Books
Many items are not full textBut they do have links to libraries
Quality of the scanned items is good, but you may find some that are hard to read
Things about Google Books
Google Scholar
Not all items are full text – many are citations or lead you to places you can purchase full textDon’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
Things about Google Scholar
Look at all the stuff under Month 3 in the wiki, including assignments
Use some Advanced Search tips when searching Google
And BLOG!
Between now and our meeting…
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, 4-6pmSouthwest - Thursday, Oct 28th, 4-6pm
When we meet in-person…