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June LiebertJune LiebertDirector and Assistant ProfessorDirector and Assistant Professor

The John Marshall Law SchoolThe John Marshall Law School

“Do no harm” – the Google mantra

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TopicsTopics How does Google work?How does Google work? Advanced searching Advanced searching Google toolsGoogle tools AlternativesAlternatives GoalGoal


How does it work?How does it work?

Crawl Crawl Googlebot spiderGooglebot spider Number of pages?Number of pages? Update frequency?Update frequency?

IndexIndex QueryQuery Rank Rank

PageRank usesPageRank uses Number of linksNumber of links Quality of the linking sitesQuality of the linking sites

Ads and GooglebombsAds and Googlebombs


Does Google include everything?Does Google include everything?

No!No! Invisible Web (Deep Web)Invisible Web (Deep Web)

550 times the size of Google550 times the size of Google (Bright Planet white paper, 2001)(Bright Planet white paper, 2001)

DatabasesDatabases Search engines improvingSearch engines improving

PDF filesPDF files Database searchesDatabase searches

Diagram from Diagram from http://netforbeginners.about.com/library/diagrams/n4layers.htmhttp://netforbeginners.about.com/library/diagrams/n4layers.htm

http://netforbeginners.about.com/library/diagrams/n4layers.htm


Advanced SearchingAdvanced Searching

http://www.google.com/advanced_search




Search TermsSearch Terms and (default)and (default) or or “”“” ++ -- ~~ .... **

exact phrase exact phrase “blue sky”“blue sky”

required required +google+google

without without -yahoo-yahoo

synonyms synonyms ~automobile~automobile

# range # range president 1940..1960president 1940..1960

wildcard wildcard “francis * coppola”“francis * coppola”(one or more words in a phrase)(one or more words in a phrase)


Google QueryGoogle Query

All search words countAll search words count Exact matchExact match Word stemmingWord stemming Stop wordsStop words Term proximity and orderTerm proximity and order Not case sensitiveNot case sensitive Ignored characters Ignored characters (punctuation)(punctuation)

Apostrophes and hyphensApostrophes and hyphens


Other optionsOther options

DomainDomain site:www.jmls.edusite:www.jmls.edu

File type File type filetype:pdffiletype:pdf

Images Images sunset picturessunset pictures

Local search Local search pizza chicagopizza chicago

Within URL or TitleWithin URL or Title allinurl, inurl, allintitle, intitleallinurl, inurl, allintitle, intitle


LanguagesLanguages

Set language preferencesSet language preferences TranslatorTranslator www.google.com/language_toolswww.google.com/language_tools

Arabic Armenian Belarusian Bulgarian Catalan Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Croatian Czech Danish Dutch

English Esperanto Estonian Filipino Finnish French German Greek Hebrew Hungarian Icelandic

Indonesian Italian Japanese Korean Latvian Lithuanian Norwegian Persian Polish Portuguese Romanian

Russian Serbian Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swedish Thai Turkish Ukrainian Vietnamese

http://www.google.com/language_tools


Specialized QueriesSpecialized Queries

CalculatorCalculator DictionaryDictionary MapMap PhonebookPhonebook MoviesMovies

http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/features.html

StocksStocks WeatherWeather ConversionConversion TimeTime BooksBooks




Refine resultsRefine results

Cached pageCached pageSimilar pagesSimilar pagesTranslationTranslation

Reading the ResultsReading the Results

Répertoire Web de Google - World > Français - - »» [ [ Translate this page ] ] «« ...... Modifié par Modifié par GoogleGoogle - ©2003 - ©2003 GoogleGoogle Aide du répertoire Aide du répertoireGoogleGoogle - À propos - - À propos - GoogleGoogle in English. in English. directory.directory.googlegoogle.com/Top/World/ - 7k - Mar 26, 2004 - .com/Top/World/ - 7k - Mar 26, 2004 - Cached - - Similar pages

http://directory.google.com/Top/World/Fran%C3%A7ais/





http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://directory.google.com/Top/World/Fran%25C3%25A7ais/&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dfrancais%2Bgoogle%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8

http://216.239.53.104/search?q=cache:sBSXBGrilqIJ:directory.google.com/Top/World/Fran%C3%A7ais/+francais+google&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=related:directory.google.com/Top/World/Fran%C3%A7ais/


Local Results Page ExampleLocal Results Page Example


Evaluating ResultsEvaluating Results

AuthorityAuthority who?who? ObjectivityObjectivity why?why? AccuracyAccuracy true?true? CurrencyCurrency when?when?


Other Google ToolsOther Google Tools Toolbar Toolbar toolbar.google.comtoolbar.google.com

BookmarksBookmarks

Scholar Scholar scholar.google.comscholar.google.com

Book Search Book Search books.google.combooks.google.com

Patents Patents www.google.com/patentswww.google.com/patents

News AlertsNews Alerts www.google.com/alertswww.google.com/alerts Reader Reader reader.google.comreader.google.com (for RSS) (for RSS)

http://www.google.com/patents

http://www.google.com/alerts


Even More GoogleEven More Google

Maps maps.google.com

Earth earth.google.com

Gmail www.gmail.com

Talk talk.google.com

Calendar calendar.google.com

Documents, Spreadsheets docs.google.com Labs labs.google.com

YouTube www.youtube.com

Blogger www.blogger.com

Picasa (photos) picasa.google.com

http://www.gmail.com/

http://www.youtube.com/

Top 10 Search EnginesTop 10 Search Engines

Top 10 Search Providers by Search Share, August 2007From Nielsen//NetRatings

Google Search

Yahoo! Search

MSN/Windows Live Search

AOL Search

Ask.com Search

My Web Search

BellSouth Search

Comcast Search

My Way Search

SBC Yellow Pages Search


New Search EnginesNew Search Engines KartOO KartOO (clustering, visual meta search)(clustering, visual meta search)

http://http://www.kartoo.comwww.kartoo.com

Quintura Quintura (clustering)(clustering)

http://www.quintura.comhttp://www.quintura.com

GoshMe GoshMe (meta-metasearch, beta) (meta-metasearch, beta)

http://www.goshme.comhttp://www.goshme.com Cha Cha Cha Cha (live person)(live person)

http://http://www.chacha.comwww.chacha.com//

Aftervote Aftervote (social searching)(social searching)

http://www.aftervote.comhttp://www.aftervote.com

http://www.kartoo.com/

http://www.kartoo.com/

http://www.quintura.com/

http://www.goshme.com/

http://www.chacha.com/



http://www.aftervote.com/


Sites of InterestSites of Interest The Internet ArchiveThe Internet Archive

http://www.archive.orghttp://www.archive.org

Google API Proximity SearchGoogle API Proximity Search http://www.staggernation.com/cgi-bin/gaps.cgihttp://www.staggernation.com/cgi-bin/gaps.cgi

Google HacksGoogle Hacks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Hackshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Hacks

Search Engine WatchSearch Engine Watch http://www.searchenginewatch.comhttp://www.searchenginewatch.com

Alt Search EnginesAlt Search Engines http://www.altsearchengines.comhttp://www.altsearchengines.com

Google GuideGoogle Guide http://http://www.googleguide.comwww.googleguide.com

http://www.archive.org/

http://www.staggernation.com/cgi-bin/gaps.cgi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Hacks

http://www.searchenginewatch.com/

http://www.altsearchengines.com/

http://www.googleguide.com/

http://www.googleguide.com/

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