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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rESpZFGgFsY&feature=player_embedded

http://kathyschrock.net/rbs3K/boolean/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWHPf00Jkqg

http://clusty.com/

http://www.bruceclay.com/searchenginerelationshipchart.htm

Refinement Tools Within Google

• Advanced Searching

• Google Related Search

• Wonder Wheel

• Google Timeline

Google Labs Items

• Google News Timeline

• Google Scholar

• Google Squared

http://newstimeline.googlelabs.com/

http://scholar.google.com/schhp?hl=en

http://www.google.com/squared

Firefox Add-ons for Improved Searching

• Googlepedia

• Ambiently

• Cloudlet

• DeeperWeb

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2517

http://ambiently.com/



Real-time Search Engines

• Scoopler

• OneRiot

• Collecta

• Twitter

http://www.scoopler.com/

http://collecta.com/

http://search.twitter.com/

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.

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/InvisibleWeb.html

http://www.lifehacker.com/software/search-engines/special-seek-and-ye-shall-find-128317.php

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

http://www.ipl.org/

http://vlib.org/

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/

http://www.weblens.org/scholar.html

http://infomine.ucr.edu/

http://websearch.about.com/od/invisibleweb/a/invisibleweb.htm

http://pipl.com/

http://scholar.google.com/

Kid-Friendly Search Environments

• Kido’z

• KidRex

• Quintura Kids

• CyperSleuth Kids

• KidsClick

http://www.kidoz.net/

http://www.kidrex.org/

http://quinturakids.com/

http://cybersleuth-kids.com/

http://www.kidsclick.org/

A few others

• Free Online Books

• Listservs

• WHOIS

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/search.html

http://www.lsoft.com/catalist.html

http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/index.jsp

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

http://kathyschrock.net/abceval/

http://www.cyberbee.com/guides_sites.html

http://21cif.com/tools/evaluate/

http://21cif.com/tools/evaluate/

http://www.spat.pitt.edu/

To Google and Beyond

Keith Schroeder, LMSBay Port High School

to google and beyond

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