Transcript Google Wizardry Ppt.

Google Search
Wizardry
Find Today’s Resources
bit.ly/googlewizardry
How do search engines work?
A search engine takes queries as inputs and
uses algorithms to find the appropriate outputs.
Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Yippy, etc.
Forming a Query-Step 1
Choose your keywords.
Choosing Your Keywords
1.What am I looking for?
2.Are there other words I could use for the
same thing?
Lexipedia
Visuwords
Wikisummarizer’s Visual Knowledge Map
Add “synonyms” to a Google search
Choosing Your Keywords
1.What am I looking for?
2.Are there other words I could use for the
same thing?
3.How would someone else talk about it?
Choosing Your Keywords
1.What am I looking for?
2.Are there other words I could use for the
same thing?
3.How would someone else talk about it?
4.Which of those terms is specialized to the
topic?
What do I do when I don’t know what to do?
Look for a gateway page:
Use context terms with your search term:
tutorial, introduction, background, history, lesson
Use an encyclopedia:
World Book Online – available on Balko School Library web page
Encyclopedia Britannica Online – Balko Library web page
Wikipedia – use only as an overview of the subject
Sites useful as starting points:
PBS.org, Learner.org, Library of Congress.org, etc.
Three Great Gateway Sites
Wikisummarizer - A good, quick starting point
Reference - A Wikipedia alternative
Instagrok - Designed specifically for student research
Your school has access to online encyclopedias
- Encyclopedia Brittanica
-World Book Encyclopedia
Choosing Your Keywords
1. What am I looking for?
2. Are there other synonyms I could use?
3. How would someone else talk about it?
4. Which of those terms is specialized to the
topic?
5. What kind of thing am I looking for? (news
article, image, definition, etc.)
You Have Your Keywords...Now What?
Combining terms – Multiple Word queries
Using operators – and, or, not
Using filters – images, videos, maps, books
What does Google do with multiple word
queries?
Example Query: Tiger Woods
Google returns all URLs with the word Tiger
and the word Woods somewhere within them,
but not necessarily together
The Simplest Operators
OR
Contains either word (Tiger OR Woods)
AND Contains both words, but not in succession
““
Contains words in succession (“Tiger Woods”)
NOT Contains one word, but not the other one
-
Contains one word, but NOT the one with this sign
(Tiger -Woods)
Let’s Try It
See what happens to your results for these
queries without operators, with quotes, with
OR, and with not (-)
Oklahoma City
Academy Awards
Three Other Common Operators
Define:
a definition of the term
Site: can filter by
filter by country ( ir (Iran), us (United States)
domain type (gov, edu, com)
specific website (espn, cnn, fox)
Filetype: PDF, PPT
Less Common, But Useful
link: search term is in the link
intext: search term is in the text
intitle: search term is in the title
inurl: search term is in the url
Combining Operators
Construct a query to:
1. Find a PowerPoint about the U.S. Constitution from an
educational website.
1. Find a result from a UK website with “football” in the
title.
Filtering Search by Type of Result
Google Images
Google Maps
Google Videos
Google News
Google Books
Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Google Scholar was created to help identify and access
works written by scholars for the use of other scholars.
A scholar is a specialist who is highly educated in a
particular field of study.
Represents a collection of more sophisticated materials,
written by professional scientist, historians, social
scientists…
http://scholar.google.com/
Deep Web – Invisible Web – Dark Web
The part of the web which cannot be found directly by
searching popular search tools, such as
Google.
Invisible Web DOES include:
Article databases – EBSCO
Collections of Primary Sources – Library of Congress
Statistics – World Almanac online
Scholarly works – University databases
Related Websites
USDA
FAO – Food and Agriculture Org. of U.N.
Greenpeace
Natural Resources Defense Council
Nuclear Power Plant Emergency study)
Texas Radiation - Pantex
Curating What You Find
Diigo - can only be used with Chrome.
The Next Step:
Evaluating Sources
What kinds of sources should
you use when working on an
academic project?
Consider a source’s...
Currency
Reliability/Relevancy
Authority
Purpose/Point-of-View
Sample Passages
Use your instincts. Do these pass the C.R.A.P.
test?
Consider Tone and Style
Examine one of the sources on the session
page.
Is the writing style professional?
Do claims seems plausible?
Is there research to support claims?
Is there any indication of bias?
Review the “C.R.A.P. Test” sheet.
Consider the URL
What is the domain type? (.edu, .gov, .com,
.org, etc.)
Is the word “user” in the URL?
Is there a ~ in the URL?
user or ~ indicate a personal web page
AnyWhoIs Lookup
One example is whois.domaintools.com
This can give you information about who owns
a website.
The Wayback Machine
Shows a snapshot of the internet over time.
Want to see what a particular site looked like
five years ago? This will show you.
Other Important Steps
Research the author
Compare multiple sources
Citing Your Sources
EasyBib Add-On to Docs
A Couple of Fun Things
Easter Eggs
Let Me Google That for You
Thanks!
Jake Heister, Education Specialist
Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education
[email protected]
405-412-2479
Twitter: @jakeheister
Image Credit
Image via Sean McGrath on Flickr