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Internet Search with Google February 15, 2007

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Parts of the Search result page

http://www.google.com/help/interpret.html

Basic Google search rules:

You need to choose search terms for your topic: One that is broad, one that is narrow, synonyms for term, and a meaning of the word you would like to avoid.

1.     Choosing the right search terms

a.     Start with the obvious

b.    advisable to use multiple search terms

c.     You might also ask yourself if your search terms are sufficiently specific

 

2.     Google searches are NOT case sensitive. All letters, regardless of how you type them, will be understood as lower case.

 

3.     By default, Google only returns pages that include all of your search terms. (There is no need to include “and” between terms.)

4.     The order in which the terms are typed will affect the search results.

 

5.     Google ignores common words and characters.

a.     Google will indicate if a common word has been excluded by displaying details on the results page below the search box.

b.    If a common word is essential to getting the results you want, you can include it by putting a “+” sign in front of it. (Be sure to include a space before the “+” sign.)

c.     Another method for doing this is conducting a phrase search, which simply means putting quotation marks around two or more words.

 

6.     Google uses stemming technology. It will search not only for your search terms, but also for words that are similar (root words) to some or all of those terms.

 

7.     If your search term has more than one meaning, you can focus your search by putting a minus sign (”-”) in front of words related to the meaning you want to avoid.

 

 

 

Advanced Search

 

A new tool for searches: within certain topics, you’ll notice links at the top of the search results page that help you quickly narrow your search.

 

Cheat Sheet: http://www.google.com/help/cheatsheet.html

 

Site: The word “site” followed by a colon enables you to restrict your search to a specific site.

Date: Search only a range of months

Info: Find information about the website

Link: linked pages

Intitle: word in the title

Author: author of the article

 

 ”I’m Feeling Lucky” button, which takes you straight to the most relevant website that Google found for your query.

 We are going to Sign on to Atomic Learning and watch: Refining A Google Search With Specific Key Words

 Phone Numbers:

 

Google book and Google Scholar

More More Page or   http://books.google.com/ and  http://scholar.google.com/

Google Scholar

Google Book

Few short excerpts to the entire book

 

What is possible?

Google Scholar

 

Google Scholar aims to sort articles the way researchers do, weighing the full text of each article, the author, the publication in which the article appears, and how often the piece has been cited in other scholarly literature. The most relevant results will always appear on the first page.

1.     Title – Links to the abstract of the article, or when available on the web, the complete article.

2.     Cited By – Identifies other papers that have cited articles in the group.

3.     Related Articles – Finds other papers that are similar to articles in this group.

4.     Library Links (online) – Locates an electronic version of the work through your affiliated Library. These links appear automatically if you’re on campus.

5.     Library Links (offline) – Locates libraries which have a physical copy of the work.

6.     Group of – Finds other articles included in this group of scholarly works, possibly preliminary, which you may be able to access. Examples include preprints, abstracts, conference papers or other adaptations.

7.     Web Search – Searches for information about this work on Google.

8.     BL Direct – Purchase the full text of the article through the British Library. Google receives no compensation from this service.