Tricks and Tips for Better Web Search

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Free seminar given by Karen Blakeman at Online Information 2007, on Thursday, 6th December 2007, Olympia, London

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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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09 March 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 4

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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09 March 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 14

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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09 March 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 24 Site:charity-commission.gov.uk grants Google sees the capital ‘S’ and the hyphen in charity-commission and thinks the site search is a phrase search!

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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09 March 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 37

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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