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Google getting you down? Don't let search blues ruin your day! This presentation will show you how to do a proper Google search despite Google. Also, make sure to check out the absolutely excellent Google Guide! http://www.googleguide.com/
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PROSecrets known only to librarians
(and now to you)
What is ?
No, seriously:
What is ?
1. A search engine
2. A tech company
3. A verb meaning “to look for on the Internet…with Google.”
All of these are Google services
For the most part, they are free.
The greatest mystery of them all:
HOW DOES IT WORK?
PageRankthe biggest popularity contest in historyFactors:
• Number of pages linking to a result (it counts these as “votes”)
• The relative importance of the linking page (a weighted “vote”)
OUTCOME: more popular web pages appear at the top of
the results
Googlebota nicer name for an Internet spider
• Searching software owned by Google
• Discovers pages by following links (“crawling”)
• Makes an index of the web
Pages must be crawled to be searchable on Google, and they must be linked to other pages
in order to be crawled.
How Google thinks
You write: Dogs cats living together
Google sees:A and B and C and D
AND
OR
Quotation marks tell Google to turn two words into one phrase.
You write: Dogs cats “living together”
Google sees:A and B and CD
Without quotation marks:
With quotation marks:
Title Searching
“Intitle:” lets you search within the titles of web pages
Without title search:
With title search:
Search by file type
“filetype:” lets you search by type of file
(especially useful for tax documents!)
Without file type search:
With file type search:
Tax documents!
Your #1 Google Resource:
the
GUIDE!http://www.googleguide.com/