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Cambridge University Library
Taming Google - making the web work for you
Ange FitzpatrickData Control, Cambridge University Library
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How do we search sensibly?
Knowns
• Good bookmark management on your PC
• Bookmark tools on public machines
• Del.ici.ous, xmarks, RSS feeds
Let the information come to you
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How do we search sensibly?
Unknowns
• Think about your search terms
• Avoid vague terms like ‘engineering’, or ‘science’
• Group terms together: “public policy”
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How do we search sensibly?
Unknown unknowns
Use the OR operator, or search for ‘similar’ sites
• Go directly to ‘deep web’ sites
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Google- the tour
• Enter your search terms:
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Searching the whole webOr just UK sites?
Results fromGoogle Image
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Links to other types of results
Cached copy of the website
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Top result
Wikis:User generatedcontent
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Adding extra search terms
Fewerhits
Better quality results?
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Excluding search terms
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Other useful operators
Searching in specific sites
• Keyword site:address
• Libraries site:bbc.co.uk
Produces results for all articles about libraries @ bbc.co.uk
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Other useful operators
Wildcard search
• Use an asterisk * in place of terms
• Blackburn Rovers beat * in * cup
Produces results detailing any team beaten in any cup
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Other useful operators
Using the OR operator
• Searches for one term combined with a range of others
• David Cameron OR Beckham
Produces results for David Cameron or David Beckham
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Other useful operators
The OR operator keeps going….
• David Cameron OR Beckham OR Hasselhoff OR Ginola
OR is also useful for spelling variations
• Eye colour OR color
Or combine the functions
• Medieval OR medieaval OR “middle ages”
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Understanding the internet
A different world to real searching
• Google doesn’t search everything
Like these useful paid for services
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Understanding the internet
The internet is a weird place
• More informal sharing of ideas
• Blurred relationships between consumers and producers
• Little formal hierarchy or organisation
Don’t forget about memes…
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Understanding the internet
Think about how content iscreated and shared online
informal content ≠useless content
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Understanding the internet
User generated content can’t always be trusted
But don’t let that put you off!
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Understanding the internet
Search and verify:
Compare music biographies on Wikipedia and GROVEonline
Compare film data on Wikipediawith the Internet MovieDatabase
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Google Books - what it is
• Full text access to books ‘in the public domain’
• Limited access to books under copyright
• Full text access to some magazines
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Google Books - why it is useful
• Read full text
• Confirm data: try a quotation
• Read an introduction or check the contents of a book
• Decide whether or not to buy, order or read the book
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Google Books - the tour
• Enter search term: Moonstone
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Full text
Snippets
Overview only
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Metadataissues
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Reviews
Places to buy
Related books
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Links to WorldCat
Read the full text
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Full text toolbar
Zoom
Page layout
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Full text toolbar
See ContentsPage
Flick between pages
Justtext
Clip,link,share
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Google Scholar
• Searches academic and peer-reviewed articles
• Groups results for easy analysis
Provides:
• Citations
• Abstracts
• Full text
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Google Scholar - the tour
• Enter your search terms: “Stanford Prison Experiment”
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Cambridge resource
Citations
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Credits
Donald Rumsfeld
• http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/transcript.aspx?transcriptid=3490
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Rumsfeld
LOL cats
• http://icanhascheezburger.com/
Wikipedia’s big book of things that night not be true
• http://www.nataliedee.com/
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