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Google’s Hidden Gems:
10 Mysteriously Satisfying Tips & Tricks
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2nd Friday Series
Casual talks on hot topics
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Using this software
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1. Google like a Librarian
“Google well. Google Knowledgably. Google creatively. Google like a Librarian.”
--Jill Cirasella, 2008
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Resources
• “Power Searching With Google” – Offered by Google July 10-July 23, 2012
• LYRASIS Course by Jennifer Bielewski and Russell Palmer “The Gamut of Google”– Coming back to our schedule of online classes– Winter 2013
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Googling like a librarian involves:
• Knowing when to use Google• Choosing the appropriate Google tool• Using that tool effectively and
efficiently
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Sometimes, it’s the little things
• ~ Synonyms • - NOT (omit a word from
results)• “” Exact Phrase• * Wildcard (missing words)• OR Search multiple terms • .. Numeric range
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Advanced functionality on the fly
• related: Find similar sites• site: Search within a site• filetype: Search for a file type• define: Find the definition of a
word• stocks: Find a stock quote• allintitle: Find words only in the
title
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Google for ready reference
• What time is it in Barcelona?• Is US Airways flight 3771 on time? • US Dollars to Euros?
• Lots more—from sports scores to patents:
• http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/features.html
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Google Translate
• Never perfect, but pretty good– Search for and interpret results from
pages written in another language– Seek out international citation info– Creates more usable material overall
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2. Fun with Google Image Search
• Search by background color– Example—seeking a diagram=white
background
• Search an image file– Example-Image with no provenance?
Scan and search and you might get lucky!
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3. Google Books
• For that last minute reading need-• “I really need to read Dante’s Inferno
by 3 PM tomorrow. All your copies are out, and it isn’t at the bookstore anymore!”
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4. Google Magazines
• Searchable in Google Books• Hundreds of titles available • Some favorites include: Baseball Digest,
Life, and the Weekly World News
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5. Google Scholar
• “My book manuscript is due to the publisher today! Can you please help me find this citation—the article is by Lanting and its something to do with dating cremated bone!”
• Sound familiar? • Google Scholar• http://www.google.com/scholar
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6. Google News & Genealogy
• Google News Search • http://news.google.com/• Has a news archive functionality
• “My dear Great, Great Grandmother Alice sadly met her death in a fire in Chicago in the 1890’s. Can you help me find information about that fire?”
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Searching news archives
Relative!
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7. Google tools
• Trends• News• Reader• Plus• Scholar• Magazines• Drive• igoogle
• Books• Calendar • Chat • Chrome • Docs • Earth• Finance• Gmail
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Google tools for collaboration
• Back office operations• Collaborating at a distance• Sharing or surveying patrons• With other librarians, teachers,
professors, faculty, community
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Google Drive
• Store files in multiple formats – 5GB free, 25 GB, $2.50/mo.
• Download Google Drive software to manage files between PC and Drive
• Manage and share files and documents “in the cloud”
• Collaborate
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Google Documents
• Create, edit and store: • Forms• Spreadsheets• Documents• Presentations
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Google Forms for surveys and assessments
• Quick and easy to create• Multiple question/response formats• Aggregates data in both visual and
spreadsheet formats
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8. Communicating with Google
• Google Chat• Google Voice• Google +• Google Meet Up
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Testimonials
• Let’s share some “Google saved the day” searching stories!
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Keeping up with Google
• The Official Google Blog• http://googleblog.blogspot.com/
• Lifehacker• http://lifehacker.com/
– A general technology blog, with good articles on Google
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9. What else is out there?
• Search engines—the everyday: • Ask• Bing• Yahoo
• What do you like? Dislike?
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Search
• Interesting and different• DuckDuckGo.com
– Similar features, limited ads
• Yippy.com– Searches the “deep web”
• Maholo.com– “Answer” engine, frustrates with ads
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Metasearch
• mamma.com– “aggregates and organizes the web's
content from several of the leading search engines”
• dogpile.com– “Dogpile aggregates the most relevant
searches from Google, Yahoo!, Bing and Yandex and delivers them to you in a convenient search package.”
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Computational
• Wolfram Alpha• http://www.wolframalpha.com/
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10. Google tools alternatives
• Slideshare.net– Load and share PowerPoint files
• PollEverywhere.com– Create online polls, respond via mobile
• Prezi.com– Create slideshows or tutorials, PowerPoint
alternative• Zoho.com
– Multiple “office” tools, some free some $