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PowerGOOGLE MASTER

R o m m e l E s p i n e l , M S L I S

W e b S e r v i c e s L i b r a r i a n ,

# s c w l i b r a r y

@ s c w l i b r a r y

Most Common Search engine

How can we use it better?

Efficiency

Reliable Information

INTRODUCTION

SO HOW DOES GOOGLE WORK?White

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See video:

“How Search Works” by Matt Cutts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNHR6IQJGZs

What will be your query?

Was there a tunnel under Stevens

Institute?

WHOA . . . BEFORE YOU TYPE

How Google sees it:

Was (and)there(and)a(and)tunnel(and)under(and)Stevens?

Corrected Query:

Underground tunnel Stevens Institute

Keep it short

On Topic

Try to keep the words together as

you would see them in results

Eliminate extra word

Word order matters

RULES FOR QUERIESRed

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Operators are symbols to make your search more accurate.

Complete an algorithm

The Classics: Bolean Operators

OPERATORS

Image: https://www.library.ohiou.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/booleanOperators.png

“Quotation Marks” are used to look for an exact phrase or

maybe a song lyric.

Let’s look at

OPERATORS

baseball steroids

- (minus) symbol: If you want to exclude a term, links, or sites

Civil War –site:wikipedia.org

Site: only search on certain sites:

Afghanistan site:nytimes

l ink: search for sites link to a certain URL

link: stevens.edu

* (asterisk): use as a place holder for an unknown word or

term. Also called a wildcard. Wildcard

four *, seven years ago

OTHER OPERATORS

Info: Get information about the url and related sites to your

search. Can include cache information to.

info: stevens.edu/library

Filetype: look for a particular type of file like pdf, jpg, png, etc.

non-hodgkins lymphoma filetype:pdf

Intitle: Look for a word in the title

intitle:bioplastics

OTHER OPERATORSYellow

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You can combine any of these operators with a space to get results:

author: andrew russell intitle: networking filetype:pdf

Searches exclusively academic and

scholarly work

GOOGLE SCHOLAROrange

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Google Scholar can recognize your Stevens IP

address and direct to articles, citations or books that

the library has

CTRL+F if you don’t know already but doing this will search

for a keyword up and down a web page making it easier to

scan the article

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Define: gives a quick definition.

define: thermonuclear

Calculations: You can do basic math functions in the Google

search box

You can filter your results for images and videos

IMAGES AND VIDEO

You can fi lter your image and video results by size, color, type,

time,

You can also filter by usage type: very important as to use work that allows you to mashup, reuse or influence your work.

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NOW YOU CAN SEARCH LIKE A MASTER

If you want more information, check out Daniel Russell’s

Online Course “Power Searching”

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

http://www.powersearchingwithgoogle.com

Romel Espinel

respinel@stevens.edu

@scwlibrary

#scwlibrary

www.stevens.edu/library

AND IF YOU NEED HELP . . .