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    This document provides an overview of using Google for research. It discusses how Google works by having spider programs build a huge database of web pages that can then be searched. Search results are arranged using Google's PageRank system, which considers word proximity, placement, and popularity and importance of pages. The document outlines six topics to be covered including exploiting fuzzy search options, making searches more precise, handy tools and shortcuts, Google's family of databases including Google Books and Google Scholar.

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    This document provides an overview of using Google for research. It discusses how Google works by having spider programs build a huge database of web pages that can then be searched. Search results are arranged using Google's PageRank system, which considers word proximity, placement, and popularity and importance of pages. The document outlines six topics to be covered including exploiting fuzzy search options, making searches more precise, handy tools and shortcuts, Google's family of databases including Google Books and Google Scholar.

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    This document provides an overview of using Google for research. It discusses how Google works by having spider programs build a huge database of web pages that can then be searched. Search results are arranged using Google's PageRank system, which considers word proximity, placement, and popularity and importance of pages. The document outlines six topics to be covered including exploiting fuzzy search options, making searches more precise, handy tools and shortcuts, Google's family of databases including Google Books and Google Scholar.

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    Research Quality Web Searching, Part 1

    Googling
    to the
    Joe Barker John Kupersmith
    jbarker at library.berkeley.edu jkupersm at library.berkeley.edu

    A Know Your Library Workshop


    Teaching Library, University of California, Berkeley Spring 2007

    COURSE PAGE URL: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Google.html

    Googling
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    Why Google?

    Biggest web search engine database

    25 or more billion pages

    Results often include what you want Features, shortcuts, special databases & services

    Googling
    to the

    Overview
    1. How Google works

    2. Exploiting Googles FUZZY search options


    3. Making your searches more precise 4. Handy tools and shortcuts 5. The best of Googles family of databases 6. Google Books & Google Scholar

    Googling
    to the

    How Google works


    Spider programs find pages on the public web, build huge database of web pages Search program gives you ways to search this database PageRank arranges your results

    Word proximity and placement Popularity - a link to a page is a vote for it Importance - traffic, popularity of pages linking to a page

    Googling
    to the

    Lets try it !

    Hands-on exercises

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