MILI 2010-2011LeAnn Suchy

leann@metronet.lib.mn.us

Finding the best on the webGoogle search strategies & search engines

Links in MILI Wiki, under Month 3Reminder

The way students search

Students want one-stop shop

Don’t often think of additional keywords or search strategies

21st Century Literacies

Worksheets you can use with students

Identifying Keywords, Synonyms, &Key Phrases

21st Century Literacies

Creating An Effective Search Statement Worksheet

Googlebot “crawls” billions of web pages and indexes them

The indexed pages are searchable

Results are relevancy rankedOver 200 factors determine relevancy, including popularity

How Google works

Google search strategiesDo not need “and” between terms

Order matters, most prominent first

Ignore punctuation

Google search strategies

Use quotes for exact phrases

+ & - to include and exclude words

Google search strategies

Either OR (must type in caps)

Use parentheses to enclose concepts

Google search strategiesLimit to website with site:

Limit to domain with site:• com, edu, org, gov

Google search strategies

Don’t forget the minus symbol to exclude some domains

Google search strategies

Limit to type of file

Google search strategies

Limit to range of numbers with ..

Many other ways to limit searches:intitleintextallinurlrelated pagesauthorsource

Google Guide

Google search strategies

Google can be your dictionary with define:

Google search strategiesGoogle can be your calculator

Google search strategies

Google Advanced Search

Google News

Google News Archive Search

Some articles will be pay per view

The archives are not all inclusive; only some information available

When we talk about databases you’ll see a difference between what is here and what is there

Things about Google News

Google Books

Many items are not full textBut they do have links to libraries

Quality of the scanned items is good, but you may find some that are hard to read

Things about Google Books

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 them and Scholar

Things about Google Scholar

Look at all the stuff under Month 3 in the wiki, including assignments

Use some Advanced Search tips when searching Google

And BLOG!

Between now and our meeting…

You’ll learn how to use Delicious to organize your bookmarks

Next in-person meetings (always

available on the wiki in the Calendar):Sanford - Monday, Oct 11th, 4:45-6:45pm

South - Tuesday, Oct 26th, 4-6pmSouthwest - Thursday, Oct 28th, 4-6pm

When we meet in-person…