To begin—get their attention: New Spice, Study Like a Scholar

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ArIj236UHs

Become a GoogleMeister!(revised 11-12)

Cheryl Youse, MLSColquitt County High SchoolMoultrie, GA 31768229/890-6291http://colquitt.high.schooldesk.net/http://bit.ly/cchsmediacyouse@colquitt.k12.ga.uscyouse@gmail.com

Think you’re good at searching?Learn to be even better!

Amaze and astound your friends and students!

How big IS the Internet?

• According Pingdom, a web monitoring company, that documents the number of accessible websites, as of December 2011 there were around 555 million, with 300 million of those sites added in 2011 (Pingdom, 2012). This is the “era of information abundance”—the web does not serve as a scholarly resource but instead a resource to be carefully navigated. So, learning to search properly is EVEN MORE IMPORTANT!!

IPV6

• Internet Protocol Version 6 launched in June 2012• In 1993, there were 43 billion internet addresses available

(IPV4)• With mobile devices, that is not enough• IPV6 has 340 trillion trillion trillion addresses or 3.4 x 10 38

Forget about domains indicating quality (for the most part)

Check out domain name prices at godaddy.com

.edu and .gov are still the most reliable sources

• ~ (tilde) in the website name indicates it is a personal page and it may not be dependable, even on .edu sites

• http://e360.yale.edu/feature/mysteries_of_killer_whales_uncovered_in_the_antarctic/2490/

• http://www.nsrl.ttu.edu/tmot1/orciorca.htm• http://www.indiana.edu/~ensiweb/lessons/w

hale.ev.html• http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~MidLink/whale.html

• Default search= EVERYTHING• Advanced search= You now have to put in a search

term and then click on the cog in the upper right hand corner to get to advanced search

• Remember—Google is a CONSUMER product, meant to appeal to the widest possible audience

Advanced SearchShows up AFTER you enter a search term

• All these words• Exact word or phrase• Any of these words• None of these words• Numbers ranging

from• Language• Region

• Site or domain• Last update• Terms appearing• Reading level• Filetype• Usage rights

How Search Works

Matt Cutts from Google on How Search Works• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNHR6IQJ

GZsHow Search Engines Work (Thanks to Karen Liebert)

• http://www.learnthenet.com/animated-internet/how-search-engines-work/index.php

Search for results, not questions

Ex. Student search: How fast does the space shuttle fly?

Better: space shuttle travels at a speed of about

The Top Panel(This comes up after you input your initial search)

“More” = more specific types of results

Refine by date published, types or results, location

Refine by sites with images, reading level, translated foreign pages, nearby, etc.

To refine by reading level: search tools, reading level

Videos

Check the left hand panel to search for videos. If your school blocks youtube, you may be able to find a video from National Geographic, PBS, CNN or another reliable source that you can access. You can also specify Closed Captioning, quality and length when doing a video search.

To refine video search results, after getting results, choose duration, date, quality, captioning, or source

Librarian Secret Weapon

Scenario: “My friend read this book and he said it was really good and I want to read it…but I don’t remember the title. Or the author. But it was about computer games. And it was RED.”

Search: Google Images>”video games” book cover> sort by color red>VOILA! Was it Ready Player One by Ernest Cline? “Yes!”

My friend read a book about video games I want to read….but I can’t remember the title….but it’s red!

To search by image color: choose image search, “search tools”, “color”. If you need a diagram, choose “any type”, “line drawing”

To get another point of view:

• Go to Google News and choose a country or region whose viewpoint you want

• If the article is not in English, copy and paste it into Google translator

The Top Panel• Images: By subject (Google

breaks down into smaller topics), size, icon, color, type—face, photo, clip art, line drawing (this one is great when teachers need diagrams)

• Maps: show what (relating to your search term) is near your (or any) geographic location

• Videos: Duration, Date, Quality, Source

• News: date, top stories (not relating to subject)

• Shopping: online and specific stores, sort by category, price, in stock, etc.

•Places: looks closest to your location but you can change it•Books (google Books)•Blogs: homepages, date•Flights: default is airport near your location•Discussions: forums, question and answers•Recipes: cook time, ingredients, number of calories•Applications: apps for various devices•Patents•Sites with images•Sources: can choose specific sources

Student Search Techniques

• Sites with images• Search by color• Define: • Reading level• ADVANCED SEARCH

Teacher Search Techniques

• Image search: Line Drawing to find diagrams• Search a specific date range• Translated foreign pages: news—choose a

country>translate • Panoramio (pictures from all over the world)• Videos• ADVANCED SEARCH

Boolean Operators with Google• Phrase search ("")

By putting double quotes around a set of words, you are telling Google to consider the exact words in that exact order without any change. Google already uses the order and the fact that the words are together as a very strong signal and will stray from it only for a good reason, so quotes are usually unnecessary. By insisting on phrase search you might be missing good results accidentally. For example, a search for [ "Alexander Bell" ] (with quotes) will miss the pages that refer to Alexander G. Bell.

• Search single word exactly as is ("")Google employs synonyms automatically, so that it finds pages that mention, for example, childcare for the query [ child care ] (with a space), or California history for the query [ ca history ]. But sometimes Google helps out a little too much and gives you a synonym when you don't really want it. By putting double quotes around a single word, you are telling Google to match that word precisely as you typed it.

• Search within a specific website (site:)Google allows you to specify that your search results must come from a given website. For example, the query [ iraq site:nytimes.com ] will return pages about Iraq but only from nytimes.com. The simpler queries [ iraq nytimes.com ] or [ iraq New York Times ] will usually be just as good, though they might return results from other sites that mention the New York Times. You can also specify a whole class of sites, for example [ iraq site:.gov ] will return results only from a .gov domain and [ iraq site:.iq ] will return results only from Iraqi sites.

• Terms you want to exclude (-)Attaching a minus sign immediately before a word indicates that you do not want pages that contain this word to appear in your results. The minus sign should appear immediately before the word and should be preceded with a space. For example, in the query [ anti-virus software ], the minus sign is used as a hyphen and will not be interpreted as an exclusion symbol; whereas the query [ anti-virus -software ] will search for the words 'anti-virus' but exclude references to software. You can exclude as many words as you want by using the - sign in front of all of them, for example [ jaguar -cars -football -os ]. The - sign can be used to exclude more than just words. For example, place a hyphen before the 'site:' operator (without a space) to exclude a specific site from your search results.

• Fill in the blanks (*)The *, or wildcard, is a little-known feature that can be very powerful. If you include * within a query, it tells Google to try to treat the star as a placeholder for any unknown term(s) and then find the best matches. For example, the search [ Google * ] will give you results about many of Google's products (go to next page and next page -- we have many products). 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.

• The OR operatorGoogle's default behavior is to consider all the words in a search. If you want to specifically allow either one of several words, you can use the OR operator (note that you have to type 'OR' in ALL CAPS). For example, [ San Francisco Giants 2004 OR 2005 ] will give you results about either one of these years, whereas [ San Francisco Giants 2004 2005 ] (without the OR) will show pages that include both years on the same page. The symbol | can be substituted for OR. (The AND operator, by the way, is the default, so it is not needed.)

Google Voice

• Get a Google Phone number for those times you need to give a number or make a call without giving away your true number OR seeing the actual number of the person calling you so students can contact you without worrying about impropriety—you won’t have their actual phone number, and they won’t have yours.

• https://www.google.com/voice

Google Fun Searches

• Once in a blue moon• No Chuck Norris• Elmer Google

http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=xx-elmer• Google Black

http://www.blackl.com/black-google.php

Google Widgets

• A google a Day http://agoogleaday.com/• Google Custom Search (if you’re the webmaster)• iGoogle• Weather• Countdowns

Google Bookmarks

• Book mark your favorite sites and access them from ANY computer

Other interesting stuff about Google

• The Google Car!• Google Map borders!• The name ‘Google’ was an accident. A spelling mistake

made by the original founders who thought they were going for ‘Googol’.

• Employees are encouraged to use 20% of their time working on their own projects. Google News, Orkut are both examples of projects that grew from this working model.

• Google rents goats (200 goats to eat the weeds and brush on company property).

• Employees can take their dogs to work (as long as they—the dogs—follow company policy).

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nYhKD8leAg

• Google has a fleet of self-driving cars (Priuses) taking photos for Google maps (street view).

• Equipment to make them self-driving costs about $150,000 per car.

• Probably won’t be for sale for about 20 years.• Imagine how the visually impaired will feel

when they can drive themselves!

The Google Car

Google Map BordersGoogle map borders are in different locations

depending on the location from which you are viewing them. After fielding a number of complaints about the placement of borders, Google now delivers localized versions to different users depending on your ISP.

Where do I learn this stuff…

• Search Engine Watch http://searchenginewatch.com/

• PC Magazine• https://sites.google.com/site/gwebsearcheduc

ation/webinars• Tasha Bergson-Michelson of Google• LM_Net• Conferences

Thank you!Happy Hunting!

Videos

• It’s a Book – Lane Smith http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4BK_2VULCU

• So You Want to be a Librarian http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RGccQFxi3U

• Dewey Decimal Rap http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHiUQb5xg7A

• Study Like a Scholar http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ArIj236UHs