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Alternatives to Google

Paul Barron

Director of Library and Archives

George C. Marshall Foundation

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for nonprofit educational purposes only.

Revised and Sites Checked November 2012

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Presentation Objectives Search Engines and Search Tools

Bing – Microsoft Search Engine

Boolify – Drag and Drop Search Tool

Duck Duck Go

Exalead – French Search Engine

Google – Link Checking

TouchGraph SEO

WikiMindMap

Virtual Libraries

Internet Public Libraries

Intute from the United Kingdom

INFOMINE – Univ. of California

Issue-oriented Sources

ProCon.org and CRS Reports

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Research Sources for Middle & High School Students

1. Google or other online search engine (94%)

2. WikipediA or other online encyclopedia (75%)

3. YouTube or other social media sites (52%)

4. Their peers (42%)

8. Online databases (EBSCO, JSTOR, or Grolier (17%)

9. Research librarian at school (16%)

“How Teens Do Research in the Digital World”

http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2012/Student-Research

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Should educators be concerned?

“There are consequences to

our students and our educational

system if we [allow] a search

engine to define the parameters

of effective research.”

The University of Google: Education in the (Post) Information Age

Tara Brabazon

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Duck Duck Go

http://www.duckduckgo.com


Duck Duck Go Goodies https://duckduckgo.com/goodies

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Bing and Exalead

http://www.bing.com

http://www.exalead.com/search


NEAR Proximity Operator

Bing syntax – near:n (near:3, near:5)

Exalead syntax – Requires UPPER case

NEAR - Find words within 16 words of one another.

NEAR/(n) - (NEAR/5, NEAR/10)

http://www.exalead.com/search http://www.bing.com

NEAR


Exalead’s AND Operator Results

AND – 1610 results


Exalead’s NEAR Proximity Operator


NEAR – 397 results


Exalead’s NEAR/n Proximity Operator

NEAR/n finds words within a specific number of terms

from one another


NEAR – 397 results

NEAR/5 – 105 results


NEAR Proximity Operator Search Homework

Using

“Your topic” AND “teacher resources” AND

“school level”

“Your topic” near:5 “teacher resources”

AND “school level”

http://www.bing.com


NEAR Proximity Operator Search Homework

Using

“Your topic” AND “teacher resources” AND

“school level”

“Your topic” AND “teacher resources” NEAR

“school level”

“Your topic” NEAR/5 “teacher resources” AND

“school level”

http://www.exalead.com/search

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Boolify

http://www.boolify.org


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Boolify Drag and Drop Search Tool

Drag and drop a Word or Phrase or Exact Word or Phrase puzzle

piece joined with a Boolean operator (AND is a default) into the

work area. Site is the same as a top level domain (edu, go, org).

Scroll down to view the results which are provided by Google.


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About Boolify

Watch the movie at: http://ed-tech-axis.blogspot.com/2009/03/boolified.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ANTAtVQsOs

http://www.boolify.org/about.php


http://ed-tech-axis.blogspot.com/2009/03/boolified.html





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TouchGraph SEO

“The TouchGraph Google Browser reveals the network of connectivity

between websites, as reported by Google's database of related

(similar) sites.”

http://www.touchgraph.com/seo

NOTE

Touchgraph is powered

by Google and supports

Google’s advanced

search syntaxes.


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TouchGraph Search Template


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Related Searches

Let’s expand the “renewable

energy” results to find “types

of renewable energy.”


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Types of Renewable Energy

Let’s review the results for “wave energy.”


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Wave Energy Search Results


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wikimindmap (http://www.wikimindmap.org)

Mind map that provides a “structured and easy

understandable overview of the topic you are looking for.”

Understanding the limits of Wikipedia, this tool is useful as

a search term generator.


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Mind Map Results for “climate change”

To move the mind

map, press and hold

the left mouse button.

NOTE

Ensure that you select

en.wikipedia.org

Student Research Query: “climate change”


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Expanding the Mind Map: From Causes to …

Student Research Query: “climate change” AND causes


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… Human Influences

Student Research Query

“climate change” AND causes AND “human influences”


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… to Fossil Fuel

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Student Research Query “climate change” AND causes AND “human influences” AND “fossil fuel”


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Research Query

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Student Research Query

“climate change” AND causes AND “human influences”

AND “fossil fuel”


Duck Duck Go Results


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Link Checking – The Research

“A Web page author links to the best and

most popular pages within the same

category. This creates a small Web

between pages with similar topics.”

"Growing and Navigating the

Small World Web by Local Content”

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

October 2002

Filippo Menczer

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Link Checking Exercise

Queries

link:http://www.ipl.org

link:http://www.ipl.org AND “lesson plans”

link:http://www.ipl.org AND “lesson plans” AND

“american history” AND “middle school

link:http://www.ipl.org AND “lesson plans” AND

“american history” AND “middle school AND site:org

http://www.ipl.org/

Basic Link Check


All of the sites that were

returned have links to

Internet Public Library.

link:www.ipl.org

Refined Link Check


link:www.ipl.org AND "lesson plans" AND "information literacy"

More Refined Link Check


link:www.ipl.org AND "lesson plans" AND "information literacy" AND site:k12.va.us

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Internet Public Library


http://www.ipl.org

NOTE the “Ask an ipl2 Librarian”

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IPL for Teens


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Internet Public Library for Kids

http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/


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INFOMINE Scholarly Internet Resources

http://infomine.ucr.edu/


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INFOMINE Search Results


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Library of Congress Tracer Bullets


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Library of Congress SCIENCE TRACER BULLETS

http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/tracer-bullets/


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Intute (http://www.intute.ac.uk)


NOTE

Intute was closed in July 2011;

however, the links remain active.

Humanities and Education Links


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Kids.gov (www.kids.gov)


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ProCon.org (Pro &Con on Issue)


http://www.procon.org

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Links to Micro Sites and “Learn More”

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Issue: Human Activity & Global Climate Change

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Background with Names of Advocates

Sources – Government agencies, think

tanks, professional organizations

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Pro and Con Arguments with Source Links

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Video Gallery – Pro and Con

Heartland Institute video challenging human causation of global

climate change.

Source: Heartland Institute, "Global Warming: Was It Ever Really A

Crisis?," www.youtube.com (accessed July 13, 2011)

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Readers’ Comments – What do your students think?

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Learn More – Footnotes & Sources

This is only a partial list

of the footnotes and

resources on the topic.

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University of North Texas Libraries http://digital.library.unt.edu/explore/collections/CRSR/

Scroll down to view

19 categories of

“Browse by Subjects”


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Browse by Subject at UNT

This is a partial list of

the subjects.



Query Syntax Help Sources

Title URL

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff795620.aspx

http://tinyurl.com/23xy4cm

See Syntax at

http://duckduckgo.com/goodies.html

http://www.exalead.com/search/web/search-syntax/

http://tinyurl.com/4k3uzu7

https://sites.google.com/site/gwebsearcheducation/advanced-operators

http://tinyurl.com/6676abd







http://duckduckgo.com/

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