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Google better! Benefits and features of Advanced Google and Google Scholar. Appropriate for Middle School up.TRANSCRIPT
GoogleSmart
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Research with Google? • Students, teachers, staff—we all use Google
– Teachers are overheard telling students: “just Google it”
• Students are required to use resources from subscription databases. – Subscription services are more authoritative, valid, easier to use,
and easier to cite.
• But we also Google—either as a start, or to check that something obvious wasn’t missed
• Google is incredibly powerful • So let’s get better at Googling!
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Today’s Goals
• Learn how to use Google better. – Google Advanced – Key Words, Key Phrases – Google Scholar
• Discover Google shortcuts and neat “things”
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Keep in mind: The Invisible Web Google doesn’t search everything…
• What search engines choose not to index – “The Invisible Web: Text pages, files, or other often high-quality authoritative
information available via the World Wide Web that general-purpose search engines cannot, due to technical limitations, or will not, due to deliberate choice, add to their indices of Web pages. Sometimes also referred to as the “deep Web” or “dark matter…what may be invisible today may suddenly become visible tomorrow.”
– “If a Web page has no links pointing to it from any other page on the Web, a search engine crawler can’t find it. These “disconnected” pages are the most basic part of the Invisible Web.” Sherman, Chris and Gary Price, In Library Trends 52 (2) 2003: Organizing the Internet: 282-298
– “In fact, only a small percentage of the Web’s content is accessible to Google. The term “deep Web” refers to the vast portion of the Web that is beyond the reach of the typical “surface Web” crawlers. Surface Web search engines like Google can’t easily fathom the deep Web because most deep Web content has no links to it.” Sol Lederman, altsearchengine.com, 2009.
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So let’s find a typical assignment for a young student
(This is my part of the report)
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“find out what bottlenose dolphins eat”
A “Regular” Google Search
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Many of us do this
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Worse results than first Google search!
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Eliminate the “s” and look at drop down suggestions
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No sports teams but too
many hits!
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AND, OR, NOT
+ -
“ ”
2. Click Advanced search (Boolean Search)
1. Click Wheel Box for Drop Down Menu
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Easy Boolean logic—
fill in the boxes
Google Advanced Search Box
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AND, OR, NOT
+ -
“ ” EXACTLY
AND AND AND “______”
-______ NOT
Red words are “implied”—you don’t
put them in
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NOT Wikipedia
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Note: you can actually write this in a Google box and get the same results
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What was the original question? • What do bottlenose dolphins eat?
Think of synonyms for “eat”
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Our new search Our New Search
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More results, more focused
28,200,000 – 128,000 = 28,072,000 FEWER HITS
But still too many!
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Further refine your results by choosing a domain . . .
.com commercial sites
.org organizations
.edu educational sites
.gov government sites
.net computer network
.mil military
Note: a ~ in the URL indicates a personal page, so take heed
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URLhttp://www.si.umich.edu/Art_History/demoarea/details/1953_1.50.html
Uniform Resource Locator
The web address which connects you to a website
It may give you information before you see the site—can you tell anything about this URL?
Speaking of Domains…
Narrowing with domain selection
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Select a domain to further narrow search
Our Final Search…
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Now we are down to 2,370 educational sites that will have information about what bottlenose dolphins eat
Results #1
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Result #2
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Result #3
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Result #4
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We had 4 authoritative appropriate
useful websites
on the first page
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While we had two good results with earlier searches, We did not have enough to compare and verify the information…
Now we do
“Good enough” is not the same as “good.”
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Recap
• Eliminate the “s” • Use Boolean logic to narrow the topic • Use the Advanced Search feature • Choose keywords to include & exclude • Select a domain
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Tips when Google Searching
• Search is always case insensitive • Generally, punctuation is ignored,
including @#$%^&*()=+[]\ and other special characters. \
• Keep it simple. • As few terms as possible
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New Google Search String In the Google search box:
filetype:pdf migration intitle:distance of "monarch butterfl*”
This says that I am search for: • A pdf type file • About migration • In the title has to be the word distant • It needs to have the exact phrase monarch butterfly or
monarch butterflies
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A search for…
PowerPoint Presentations
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Another specific search
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Add Region, Domain, Language, Date, Site (youtube.com, teachertube.com)
Results
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II needed good information originating in Afghanistan about the education of girls
Recap
• Use Advanced Search for file type .ppt, .xls, .pdf
• Use the site or domain name, i.e., teachertube.com, yale.edu, .gov, ms.org
• Limit by date, region, language, usage rights
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Google Scholar
You have to know about Google Scholar!
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Where to find Google Scholar
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For example—to find a certain type of journal article about OCD since 2000
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You may not have full text, but you will find the article citation information and be able to search in subscription databases
Google More…
• For special features and searches in Google go to “more”
• and then “Even more”
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But kids are better than adults when they search! (you sure?)
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