On Beyond Google

The World of Search

Kristy MotzFLITE Library Instruction Coordinator

INFORMATION VS. KNOWLEDGE

John Naisbitt:

We are drowning in information, but starved for knowledge.

--1982

Think About Online Searching

Internet (Collections of Web Pages and Documents in Excel, PowerPoint, Word, pdf, video (YouTube), podcasts, etc.)

Libraries (Subscription Databases to Journal Articles, Newspaper Articles, Electronic books, etc.)

Think About Searching Internet: Quantity over Quality

Current Not Reviewed Temporary Not really very organized

Libraries: Quality over Quantity Not Current Reviewed Permanent Organized

Searching the INTERNET vs. Searching the LIBRARY

How current is it?

How do we find it?

Can we trust what we find?

How Do We Search the Web Effectively?

What search tools help us search it?

How can we do better searches?

Look Critically at the Web

Where Does Info Come From? Domain Names

.edu — educational institutions (universities and research institutes)

.gov — government agencies (federal)

.org — organizations (service-oriented, nonprofit)

.com — commercial business sites

.net — network organizations (network provider, commercial organization, or ?)

Search Engines – The Big 3

Search Engines 2

Other Possibilities

New Search Engines 3

ChaCha Exalead Quintura Ms. Dewey

EveryZing and Podscope

Search Mash Technorati And So On

Internet Search 2 - Directories

Librarians’ Internet Index Infomine Internet Public Library About.com Yahoo and Google

Internet Search 3 - Metasearch

Dogpile Clusty Kartoo Twingine PolyCola

What’s New EveryZing and Podscope

Audio and Visual search Exalead

Visual search results ChaCha.com

Text Message search Quintura.com

Visual Tag Cloud Display MsDewey.com

The most unusual yet

The Power of Search

Google “Best Business Stories of the Year, 2004”

Patrick Ahern – Data Recovery Group Pulled from Google Listing

Yahoo Search Submit Express

Paid Inclusion in Yahoo! Search results

RESEARCH?

Web Searching

The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly(Internet Evaluation Exercise)

Evalute information withSnopes.com