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2. Databases vs. GoogleDatabases: Google: Professionally Much personallypublishedgenerated contentinformation Questionable authority Identifiable authority Difficult to focus Easy searchsearchparamaters May take a long Quick access totime to get qualityquality informationinformation 3. Google Offersthe most popular search engine Has developed lots of other applications The most successful advertisingcompany in history Uses data mining & targeted advertisingbased on user habits 4. Google Search ResultsResults page lists links delivered in orderof Google authority, affected by, amongstother things: Page content (relevancy) Backlinks (domain authority) Profitability for Google 5. Google Authority Implications: Google good for quickly finding non-controversial, authoritative sites(eg: a movie home page) Google bad for quickly finding factualinformation on controversial topics(eg: Israel-Palestine conflict) Skewed results towards pagespammers, content farmers, andcommercial / Google-owned sites 6. Google Search Example:Global Warming www.google.ca 7. Global Warming ~197,000,000 results (@ time slide created) Lots of sponsored links - $$$ factor Wikipedia entry - $$$ factor Google News - $$$ factor Charities - $$$ factor Good (and poor / biased / outdated)information sourcesYou must spend a lot of time assessing page content to assure quality information! 8. Who wants to spend that muchtime trying to find goodinformation? 9. Online Databasesthe time-saving solution! 10. Databases available to CKSS: EBSCO Host huge database;international focus Gale Cengage Powersearch =big database; lots of Cdn. Content SIRS (Social Issues Resource Series) large; issue-based, American focus Home-use passwords available! 11. Databases Available 24/7 Online: via the CKSS Library Research Page 12. Thanks for viewing thistutorial presentation!cksslibrary.blogspot.ca