MILI 2009LeAnn Suchyleann@metronet.lib.mn.us

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!