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Internet ResearchBIPRA Conference 2013
Susan Mansfield
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Overview
By the end of this session you should be able to:
Search the internet faster
Search the internet more effectively
Get better results from your internet searches
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Should I use a search engine?
Get familiar with a few good sources
Bookmark these
– Shared bookmarks?
Be aware of commercial websites
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Which search engine to choose?
• Google• Yahoo Search• Bing
Keyword
• Yahoo Directory• Exalead
Index
Directory
Category
• Mamma• ForelookMeta
• http://www.philb.com/webse.htm
List of search engines
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Specialist Search Engines• www.acronymfinder.com (human edited)• www.abbreviations.com
Abbreviations and acronyms
• http://www.synonyms.netSynonyms and antonyms
• http://www.definitions.netDefinitions and translations
• http://www.phrases.netPhrases and idioms
• http://www.quotes.netQuotes and sayings
• http://www.lyrics.net Music and lyrics
• http://greatpdf.comPDFs and ebooks
• www.taforum.org.ukAssociations and organisations
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How do search engines work
Robots and spiders
Author registration
Ranking– Is word in title element/page heading/URL
– How often does word appear (as a percentage of total words)
– How close are the words to each other
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The case against Google
Results vary (.com or .co.uk?)
Bits are broken
Personalisation
Wikipedia
Google is an advertising company
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Basic Google searching
Start broad and narrow down by adding keywords
Don’t use too many words
Use words that the website will use
Beware - Google can go its own way
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Search operators
Basic search– Smoking packaging
Search for an exact word or phrase– “seize the day”
Exclude a word (can also be used for a site)– restrictive covenant -employment– restrictive covenant -site:wikipedia.org
Include a word– +Smyth
Include a "blank“ for unknown word(s)– “Sawbridgeworth * Women’s Institute”– “Sawbridgeworth * * Institute”
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More search operators
Search for either word– “civil partnership” OR marriage
Synonyms– ~marriage
Nesting and compound searches– (“domestic partnership” OR marriage) -“Proposition 8”
~legislation California
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Advanced Google searching
Proximity– Sawbridgeworth AROUND(3) Institute
Search within a site or domain marriage site:scottish.parliament.uk marriage site:.parliament.uk Marriage site:.uk
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Filtering by content type
Web Images Maps Videos News Shopping Books
Places Blogs Flights Discussions Recipes Applications Patents
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Filtering by search tools
Publish date Reading level Verbatim search Images Dictionary tool
Personal Nearby Visited pages/Not yet
visited Pages from a particular
country
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Handy Lookups in Google
Definitions – define:suffice
Clock– time Vancouver– sunrise Vancouver– sunset Vancouver
Weather– weather Vancouver – weather (current
location)
Flight information– TS297
Conversions– 4 inches in mm– £100 in Canadian currency– 42 in Roman numerals
Calculations– 14*42/12+2-11– cos etc.
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Getting help
www.google.com/help/cheatsheet.html