beyond google

Susan K. Stewart

http://delicious.com/internet_at_home

www.slideshare.net/skstewart

It’s not the savior of anything

There’s bad stuff

Pornography

Evil People

Viruses

Spyware

Urban Myths

Cyber-bullying

Would you say in person? In front of your mother?

Is it true? How do you know?

CAPITAL LETTERS are shouting.

Don’t send an email when angry.

Don’t hide behind fake names

Don’t steal someone else’s writing – even from an email

Don’t steal computer programs, music, or videos

Don’t hack a web site

Index or Directory

Google Directory

Yahoo Directory

Search Engine

Metasearch

Metacrawler

Specialty Directory (topic specific)

Expert Guide

Library

Think through the task

What is the real question?

Think outside the box

Move beyond keywords to thoughts

Look elsewhere

Do offline research first

Be specific

Civil War - Confederacy – Robert E. Lee

Other hints

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.html

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html

Google and Beyond

Think “full text” = be specificwar of 1812 economic causesvs. history

Use academic & professional termsdomestic architecture vs. houses

genome societygets International Mammalian Genome Society

also try combinations withassociation, research center, institute, directory, database

Specify exact phrases“tom bates”“what you're looking for is already inside you”

Exclude or require a wordproliferation -nuclearbush legacy +environment

Web page titleintitle:hybrid allintitle:hybrid mileage

Website or domainsite:whitehouse.gov “global warming”site:edu “global warming”

File typefiletype:ppt site:edu “global warming”

Definitionsdefine:pixeldefine:“due diligence”

Search box (use to modify)

“Cache”

“Related pages”

“Translate this page”

Specify exact phrases“tom bates”“what you're looking for is already inside you”

Exclude or require a wordproliferation -nuclearbush legacy +environment

Anyone can put up a Web page

about anything

Many pages not kept up-to-date

No quality control

most sites not “peer-reviewed”

less trustworthy than scholarly publications

no selection guidelines for search engines

Look at the URL - personal page or site ? ~ or % orusers or members

Domain name appropriate for the content ?edu, com, org, net, gov, ca.us, uk, etc.

Published by an entity that makes sense ? News from its source?

www.nytimes.com

Advice from valid agency? www.nih.gov/

www.nlm.nih.gov/

www.nimh.nih.gov/

Can you tell who wrote it ? name of page author organization, institution, agency you recognize e-mail contact by itself not enough

Credentials for the subject matter ? Look for links to:

“About us”“Philosophy”“Background” “Biography”

Is it recent or current enough ? Look for “last updated” date - usually at bottom

If no links or other clues... truncate back the URL

http://hs.houstonisd.org/hspva/academic/Science/Thinkquest/gail/text/ethics.html

1. Search a controversial topic in Google

nuclear armageddon

prions danger

“stem cells” abortion

2. Scan the first two pages of results

3. Visit one or two sites

evaluate their quality and reliability

Bookmarks or Favorites

Save as file

File – Save Page As – Web page complete

Use a special program

Online search saves

Browser extensions

Google Books

Google Maps

Google Translate

Google Scholar

Google Patent Search

distance learning

chats

research

lesson plans

virtual field trips

develop a web page

newsletters

blogs

Blogs

Alex post what he’s learned

Twitter

Mom sends links to son

Online business

eBay

Amazon Associates

Web page