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And Beyond How to Find What You’re Looking for on the Internet A presentation at The Wadhams Free Libra by Sara Kelley-Mudie June 15, 2011

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A presentation on online searching for the Wadhams Free Library

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And BeyondHow to Find What You’re Looking for

on the Internet

A presentation atThe Wadhams Free Libraryby Sara Kelley-MudieJune 15, 2011

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?Google doesn’t understand “natural language”

Where and how you search can be as important as what you search for

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What are you really looking for?

Words that will definitely be on a website with the answer to your question

Words that might be there (or will narrow your result)

If at first you don’t succeed. . . search, search again!

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Google is the new spell check

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Limit to government sites—add site:gov to your search

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Limit to edu sites—add site:edu to your search

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A word on domain types

Restricted domains• .edu

– Limited to post-secondary accredited educational institutions

• .gov– Limited to U.S. government

agencies

• .mil– Limited to use by the U.S.

military

Unrestricted domains• .com• .org• .info• .net

– Anyone can register a site with one of these domains

www.google.com

Domain

There are MANY other domains, including country-specific domains (ex. .au, .ca

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Search within a particular site

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Limit results by eliminating keywords

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Picture Perfect

Image: 'Across the Chinese Countryside' http://www.flickr.com/photos/95572727@N00/1341027869

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The power of the sidebar

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The Wonder wheel can be a great way to narrow search results

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Use related search terms to see what keywords other searchers used for the same topic

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Image: 'The droids we're googling for' http://www.flickr.com/photos/49462908@N00/3951143570

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Find the time

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Do the math

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Conversions

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Game in progress

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Local results

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Business type + zip code

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Wikipedia 101

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From Popes to pop culture

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Comparing two revisions

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Over 400 edits in one day

Handling vandalism

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