Transcript Rolling in the Deep, Dark Web: Advanced Internet Searching

Anne Burnett
University of Georgia Law Library
 Ask
 Quora
What does “Gangnam Style” mean?
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space = AND
capitals ignored (except OR)
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law criminal Georgia
Georgia criminal law
 phrase searching
 “consumer protection”
 “John F. Kennedy”
 single word in precise form
 “childcare” ≠ child care
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OR broad search
 Georgia Latinos Hispanics
 Georgia Latinos OR Hispanics
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tilde ~ synonyms
 ~cheap also retrieves inexpensive,
affordable, low cost
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minus sign – excludes terms
 rico –puerto
 vikings –football -team
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AROUND(n)
 John AROUND(2) Kennedy
▪ John F. Kennedy
▪ John Kennedy
▪ Kennedy, John
▪ John X. Kennedy
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what is ___
define:
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file format filetype:xls
domain restriction site:.gov
 Can use minus sign -site:.com
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wildcard operator
 Christopher Columbus died in *
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you have to look for it now
 Run your search, then click gear
 Google “advanced google search”
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try narrowing results
 quotes
 minus sign
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track references to you with Google Alerts
 runs your search automatically
 sends email at frequency you specify
 must be signed in to Google
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Deep Web
 also “invisible web” and “hidden web”
 web content missed by traditional search engine
crawlers/spiders
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Dark Web
 secretive, anonymous
 uses TOR and coinbits
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specialized search engines
 CompletePlanet – indexes over 70,000 databases
 SurfWax - best “grip” on information
 Infomine – databases, journals, e-books, bulletin
boards, institutional repositories
 Scirus – science focus
 Wayback Machine – replaced web sites
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1997
snapshots of sites over time
2013