Tricks and Tips for Better Web Search

Tricks and Tips for Better Web Search : Tricks and Tips for Better Web Search Thursday 6th December, 2007, Theatre E, 12.15-12.45 Karen Blakeman, RBA Information Services & UKeiG Committee Member Stand 734


A search engine’s results may vary : A search engine’s results may vary 09 March 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 2


Google : Google 09 March 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 3


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Google News : Google News 09 March 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 5


search.yahoo.co.uk, search.yahoo.com : search.yahoo.co.uk, search.yahoo.com 09 March 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 6


Live UK vs Live US : Live UK vs Live US 09 March 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 7


Changing Google ‘country’ : Changing Google ‘country’ 09 March 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 8


Limiting searches to country or region : Limiting searches to country or region 09 March 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 9


Country Search Tools : Country Search Tools 09 March 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 10


Increase the number of results displayed : Increase the number of results displayed 09 March 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 11


Standard search features : Standard search features 09 March 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 12


General techniques : General techniques 09 March 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 13


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General techniques : General techniques 09 March 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 15


Check out search ‘suggestions’ : Check out search ‘suggestions’ 09 March 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 16


Check out the search results suggestions : Check out the search results suggestions 09 March 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 17


Check out the search results suggestions : Check out the search results suggestions 09 March 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 18


Date searching : Date searching 09 March 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 19


Google Scholar date search : Google Scholar date search 09 March 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 20


Academic Live Date Search : Academic Live Date Search 09 March 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 21


Learn “command line” searching : Learn “command line” searching 09 March 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 22


Google oddity : Google oddity 09 March 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 23


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Proximity searching : Proximity searching 09 March 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 25


Link commands compared : Link commands compared 09 March 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 26


Unique Google search features : Unique Google search features 09 March 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 27


Google numeric range : Google numeric range 09 March 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 28


Unique Google search features (2) : Unique Google search features (2) 09 March 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 29


Exalead : Exalead 09 March 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 30


Think type of information : Think type of information 09 March 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 31


Should you be using standard search engines? : Should you be using standard search engines? 09 March 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 32


‘Disappearing’ pages : ‘Disappearing’ pages 09 March 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 33


http://www.archive.org/ : http://www.archive.org/ 09 March 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 34


Forgotten which search tool to use?http://www.intelways.com/ : Forgotten which search tool to use? http://www.intelways.com/ 09 March 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 35


Better Web Search : Better Web Search 09 March 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 36


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Slide38 : 09 March 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 38 Karen Blakeman Tel: +44 118 947 2256 karen.blakeman@rba.co.uk http://www.rba.co.uk/ Blog: http://www.rba.co.uk/wordpress/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License