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Tony Nguyen Emerging Technologies/Communications Coordinator National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM), Southeastern/Atlantic Region (SE/A) SUPER SEARCHER: ENHANCING YOUR ONLINE SEARCH SUPER POWERS

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Tony Nguyen

Emerging Technologies/Communications Coordinator

National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM),

Southeastern/Atlantic Region (SE/A)

SUPER SEARCHER: ENHANCING YOUR ONLINE SEARCH SUPER POWERS

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8 in 10 online health inquiries start at a search engine.

Fox S and Duggan M. Health Online 2013. Pew Research Center: Internet, Science, and Tech. 2013 Jan 15. Accessed on March 25, 2015.

Health Fact Sheet. Pew Research Center: Internet, Science, & Tech. Accessed on March 26, 2015.

Where Searching Begins

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On any given day in early 2012, more than half of adults using the internet use a search engine (59%).

Purcell K, Brenner J, Rainie L. Search Engine Use. Pew Internet and American Life Project. 2012, Mar 9. Accessed March 26, 2015.

Search Engine Popularity

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Three-quarters of search users say collecting user information to personalize search results is not okay.

Purcell K, Brenner J, Rainie L. Search Engine Use. Pew Internet and American Life Project. 2012, Mar 9. Accessed March 26, 2015.

Privacy and Searching

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39% describe themselves as “very concerned” or “somewhat concerned” about government monitoring of their activity on search engines.

Rainie L. & Madden M. How People are Changing Their Own Behavior. Pew Internet and American Life Project. 2015, Mar 16. Accessed March 26, 2015.

Privacy Strategies Post-Snowden

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Top 5 Search Engines in the United States from 2010 to 2015. StatCounter Global Stats. Retrieved March 26, 2015.

Top 5 Search Providers

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Search Engines Then

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Pop the hood and take a look around the search engine.

Rev Your Search Engine

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Complex and often secret algorithms determine which parts of the Web will be searched.

Formula for Success

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Results are ranked based on several factors (determined by the search algorithm).

Beware of information overload.

Result Overload

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Search Engine Optimization

Helps webpages move to the top of the results list

Designed to “fool” the system

Uses coding and/or writing to help a page rank higher in results

SEO: What You Need to Know

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Blind Search Comparison (Bing and Google Only)

Bing it On Search Comparison

Open Test Search

Search Engine Shell Game

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Blind Search Comparison

Blind Search Comparisons

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Advanced Search Features

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Warning! Result Overload

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Basic search: Google

More Search Tools

Google Results Tools

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Test your skills Time to work on practice questions.

Exercise Set I

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Search engines cover less than 20% of the entire Web.

The Invisible Web

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Internet Public Library

Example of the Deep Web

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Image from Batman Animated Series from Warner Bros. Animation.

BREAK TIME

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Wolfram Alpha

Google Scholar

Microsoft Academic Search

Scholarly Pursuits

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Wayback Machine

CyberCemetery

Google Cache Search using cache:URL

Blast from the Past

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What types of media are commonly searched for? Books/Print Images Video

Media Searching

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Project Guttenberg

Google Book Search

Free Book Search.net

Books/Print Search

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Images from the History of Medicine

National Library of Medicine Digital Collections

National Gallery of Art Images

Art Class

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YouTube

Vimeo

blinkx

Just Press Play

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Test your skills Time to work on practice questions. A link is provided to an online exercise set.

Exercise Set II

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Where will searching take us next?

Searching 2.0

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Data from 2009 shows Twitter growing as a search resource.

Sullivan D. Twitter Does 19 Billion Searches Per Month, Beating Yahoo & Bing (Sort Of). Search Engine Land. Retrieved March 26, 2015.

The New Normal

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Bing Social Search

LinkedIn Today Updates from Twitter and posting on

LinkedIn

Google+ Searching

Social Media Search

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Top 5 Apps Accessed Over Mobile Phones (US) Facebook Google Search YouTube Google Play Google Maps

Nielsen. Tops of 2014: Digital. Accessed on March 31, 2015.

Going Mobile

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Google Facebook Yahoo MSN/WindowsLive/Bing YouTube

Nielsen. Clicks and balances: Top government websites and U.S. web brands in February 2014. Accessed March 31, 2015

Top 5 U.S. Websites

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Libraries using SMS for reference

KGB

Cha-Cha

SMS Search Tools

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Mobile search interfaces are streamlined to make searching on the go easier.

Google Mobile Updated 2011

Yahoo Mobile

Easy Interfaces

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Using phone’s GPS search for information near you.

Aloqa App Combines social

and local information in one place

Mobile Near You

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Goggles searches for text and images.

Goggles On!

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Augmented Reality Use mobile device to

scan and find things around you

Robotvision and others Search Nearby:

Tweets Restaurants Hotels More

Seeing Things Differently

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Seeing Things Differently

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Test your skills Time to work on practice questions. A link is provided to an online exercise set.

Exercise Set III

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New Books Sauers, Michael. Searching 2.0. 2009.

Devine, Jane and Francine Egger-Sider. Going Beyond Google: The Invisible Web in Learning and Teaching. 2009.

Croft, Bruce, Donald Metzler and Trevor Strohman. Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice. 2009.

Keeping Up: Resources

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Search Engine Resources

Google Google Label Search Google Labs

Yahoo Yahoo Research

Bing Searching Bing

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Search Engine Resources II

How Stuff Works

Search Engine Land

Tame the Web

Search Engine Watch

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INFOdocket – Gary Price

Librarian of Fortune – Mary Ellen Bates

Search Engine Resources

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Questions

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