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This is a presentation for the MILI program about search strategies for Google and using the social bookmarking tool Delicious.
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MILI 2009LeAnn [email protected]
Today we’ll focus on Search tips and strategies for web
searching using Google
Additional Google search engines
Social bookmarking – Delicious
The way students search Students want
a one-stop shop
Don’t often think of additional keywords or search strategies
Worksheets you can use21st Century Literacies worksheet that helps students identify keywords and synonyms, and the bottom of the worksheet helps them put search strings together.
Worksheets you can use
Another21st Century Literacies worksheet for keyword and synonym help
How Google works Googlebot “crawls” billions of web
pages and indexes them
The indexed pages are then searchable
Results are relevancy rankedOver 200 factors determine relevancy,
including popularity
Google search strategies
versus
Do not need “and” between terms to combine them, but order matters. Place most prominent items first.
Google search strategiesUse quotes for exact phrases
Include and exclude words
Google search strategiesEither or
Limit to website or domain
Google search strategiesLimit to range of numbers
Limit to type of file
Google search strategiesGoogle can be your dictionary
Google can be your calculator
Other strategies – Google Guide
Many other different ways to limit searches:intitleintextallinurlrelated pagesauthorsource
Other Google search engines
Google News
Google News - ArchiveClick on Advanced Search get to Archive Search…
Google News – Archive Search
Google News Archives results
Google News Timeline results
Things about Google News Some articles will be pay per view,
especially older articles
The archives are not all inclusive and only some information is available
Next month when we start talking about databases you’ll see a difference between what is here and what is and there
Google Books
Google Books results
Google Books book view
Things about Google Books Many items are not full text
Quality of the scanned items is not that great
With all the protests to Google Books, things could change - ?
Google Scholar
Google Scholar search results
Google Scholar Advanced Search
Things about 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 databases and Scholar
Organizing Your Links Social bookmarking – storing
bookmarks on the web with a community of people
AdvantagesBookmarks accessible anywhere (even
on some mobile devices)Share with a community of othersCreate networks and share within
networksFind additional websites from others
Delicious
Delicious toolbar buttonshttp://delicious.com/help/tools
The box brings you to your account and the grey tag allows you to bookmark a website in Delicious without ever leaving the website. Brilliant!
Between now and our meeting…
Look at all the stuff under Month 3 in the wiki
Use some Advanced Search tips when searching Google
Use Google News, Scholar or Book Sign up for a Delicious account and
start using it And BLOG!
