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Alternatives to Google
Paul Barron
Director of Library and Archives
George C. Marshall Foundation
barronpb@marshallfoundation.org – pbbarron@gmail.com
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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
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Duck Duck Go Goodies https://duckduckgo.com/goodies
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Bing and Exalead
http://www.bing.com
http://www.exalead.com/search
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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
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Exalead’s AND Operator Results
AND – 1610 results
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Exalead’s NEAR Proximity Operator
AND – 1610 results
NEAR – 397 results
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Exalead’s NEAR/n Proximity Operator
NEAR/n finds words within a specific number of terms
from one another
AND – 1610 results
NEAR – 397 results
NEAR/5 – 105 results
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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
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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
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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”
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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
Basic Link Check
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All of the sites that were
returned have links to
Internet Public Library.
link:www.ipl.org
Refined Link Check
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link:www.ipl.org AND "lesson plans" AND "information literacy"
More Refined Link Check
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link:www.ipl.org AND "lesson plans" AND "information literacy" AND site:k12.va.us
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Internet Public Library
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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)
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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)
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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.
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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