Google and Beyond (UC Berkeley)

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John Kupersmith jkupersm [at] library.berkeley.edu A “Know Your Library” Workshop Teaching Library, University of California, Berkeley Spring 2009 Research-quality Web Searching COURSE PAGES: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/find/types/websites.htm l http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Inte rnet/FindInfo.html Google and Beyond Google and Beyond Copyright © 2012 The Regents of the University of California is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License . Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/contact.html.

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