Making Internet Searches Productive

What are they doing atthe University of Michigan?

[Grand Rapids Museum]In this presentation anytime you see [ ] this is what you enter into Google

Maps for businesses andLinks from the site itself.

F5 – RefreshF6 - Highlight URL (webaddress)

F3 - Search Page

ORGANIZE A SEARCH STRATAGY.

- What is it I'm looking for? (Keywords)

How would someone else talk about it?Which of those terms would be most common?

Which of those terms would be very specialiszzed to the topic?What kind of thing would make me happy?

USATODAY.com on Firefox USATODAY.COM on IE

[Afghanistan]

Select type of results you are aftersuch as images

Define the size

Type – Face

Any Color

[Narnia]

When you eat pig, the meat is called?When you eat sheep, the meet is called?What you eat deer, the meet is called?

What is Australian kangaroo meat called?

[Australia meat name]

[australus: definition]

Multiple SitesConfirm

Endangered Tree Octopushttp://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus

http://snopes.com/info/top25uls.aspBe a detective, don’t be fooled

What is it? [Upper lip skin]

Gear part of 10 spead

[bicycle parts]

[bicycle parts cassette wrench]

How would you find the name of this?

White flower with 3 pedals and yellow center

The hidden Web KDL / GRPL- Beyond Google Databases

MEL.ORG

KIDS INFOBITS

E-Library

Info Track JR

SIRS DISCOVER

Google displays the latest scores

What’s that carnival song? You know the one that you

sing when someone is clowning around!!!

["doot doot doodle-oodle oot doot do do“]

A search for [ "Alexander Bell" ] (with quotes) will miss the pages that refer to

Alexander G. Bell.

The query [ Obama voted * on the * bill ] will give you stories about different votes on

different bills. Note that the * operator works only on whole words, not parts of words.

Words that are commonly used, like 'the,' 'a,' and 'for,' are usually ignored (these are called stop words). With Exceptions like [the

who]

[10lbs in ounces]

[population MI]

[Delta 1039]

[231]

Language Tools

Languages include, but are not limited to, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Arabic, Polish, Thai, Turkish and Russian.

Advanced Search

Boolean

Search

Book Search

There are three types of books:1. In-copyright and in-print books2. In-copyright and out-of-print books3. Out-of-copyright books

Online access to entire books

Search your own collection of books with "My Library"

•Table of Contents•Search the Book•Popular Passages•Book Reviews•References from other Books•References from Scholarly Works

About This Book

What Google Scholar Searches:•Reputable articles•Journals•Books

What Google Scholar DOESN’T Search:•Newspapers•Magazines•Blogs•Popular websites

Options to help you with your

query

Google News

•Top stories for everywhere in the world in every language•U.S. news •Business news•Entertainment news•Sports news

Advanced Search Options

Google Alerts

• Customize the list of sites your students search for information.

• Create a custom search page.

• Collaborate with other teachers in your department.