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Super SearcherStrategies
Mary Ellen Bates March 28, 2017Reluctant—Entrepreneur.com
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search tips & tricks
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Google’s RankBrain kicks in
Machine learningBoolean isn’t Boolean any more“We think you really meant this…”Less emphasis on text-search featuresMore emphasis on your search history
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Impact on search pros
“Everything you know is wrong”
Forget finality, certainty, repeatability
Creativity counts
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Don’t be too clever
Too many terms = lower resultsDon’t use long OR statementsUse Google’s auto-synonymingGraze, don’t just dig deep
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Try multiple approaches
For terms you want closely related,try all these:word1 word2word1–word2“word1 word2”
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Inexact “exact” searching
VerbatimSearch tools -> All Results -> Verbatim
Intext:To avoid hits from anchor text links
“word”
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Use * strategically
* replaces any term in URL
For innovation initiatives at NASA:site:*.nasa.* inurl:innovation
For finding email addresses withmiddle initials“mary.*[email protected]”
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Google Web ≠ Google Scholar
Search both Web and Scholar to catchtrends, experts
Use Scholar’s Advanced Search feature
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Custom Search Engine
Google still does custom search!Favor/require/suppress specific URLsAppend search termsHelp your clients search better!Fight fake information!
cse.google.com
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Google’s “My Activity”
myactivity.google.com
Creepy or useful?
ONLY visible to you
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OTHER search engines
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Bing
Always my second choice
Different index, different ranking
linkfromdomain:See pages linked from a URLlinkfromdomain:lifehacker.com todo
finds good “to-list” tools
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Bing
Find pages that link to a file typewith contains:contains:mp3contains:xlscontains:pdf
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Peekier.com
Anonymous search engineMostly Bing, and its own crawl
Preview images of the results
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Millionshort.com
‘What haven’t you found?’ tm
Filter by site popularityEliminate ‘click-bait’
Essential for people-searching, otherlong-tail niche searches
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Search the web, save the planet
Ecosia.orgPlants trees in Africa with its ad revenue(6.5 million so far!)Powered by Bing
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Other search tricks
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A case for case studies
Need examples of who’s doingsomething well?
Look for CASE STUDIES on the topicSee Marydee Ojala’s Dollar Signcolumn in Jul/Aug 2016 OnlineSearcher
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EVERY CRS report!
everycrsreport.com
Nonpartisan perspective
Full-text searchable
8,000 reports and counting
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Clients don’t know what toask for
What other data sets would behelpful?
What is your client not asking youfor?
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Knowing when 0 means 0
WHY did you get no results?Typos, transposed lettersWrong logic or syntaxNot using common nomenclatureUnquestioned assumptionsWrong database/file/index
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Knowing when 0 means 0
Tell a storyDo the gaps correlate to an event?What related info did you find?What do you recommend next?
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Use link searches for insight
Unfamiliar site?Validate by seeing who links to itDo linking sites show a bias or PoV?Review outgoing links; where to?
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Link searching
Gigablast syntax is link:the.url
Or try openlinkprofiler.org
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Remember the deep web
Use search engines for leads:Keywords (database OR dataset ORarchive)Keywords (portal OR resources OR“online tool”)
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Finding deep web content
Start with one known sourceAssociation, NGO, non-profit, library ormuseum, etc.
Look for govt portalsdata.gov, usa.gov/statistics, etc.
Then use Bing’s linkfromdomain:
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Reverse image search
Is anyone using our photos?
ID useful chart, personThen look for other copies of thatimage
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Reverse image search
Search by image URL or drag/dropan imageGoogle Image Search, click theTineye.com
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More image searching
Use image search to find reports!Example:search Google Images for “dog food”“market share”Skim/mouse-over results
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Searching with images
Notice that petfoodindustry.com isgood source
Then search the web for
“market share” 2016..2018site:petfoodindustry.com
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Get leads for experts
site:twitter.com/*/lists inurl:librarians
Gets Twitter lists about librarians
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ID similar orgs in LinkedIn
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Curate open access resources
Open-access journals: doaj.org
Open-access books: doabooks.org
Open-access repositories:opendoar.org
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Curate open access resources
Public Library of Science: plos.org
OpenGrey (Grey Lit in Europe)opengrey.eu
BASE – Bielefeld Academic SearchEnginebase-search.net
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Can’t ID a phone number?
Look it up in Facebook!
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Preview shortened URLs
checkshorturl.comType in short URLSee the expanded version, screenshot, description
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PrintFriendly.com
Creates a printer-friendly version ofa web page
Edit out images, extraneous matter,change font size
Browser plug-in, too
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Find Mary Ellen Bates at:
[email protected]: @mebsLinkedIn: maryellenbatesFacebook: maryellenbatesReluctant–entrepreneur.com
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