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What is google?
Google, an Intelligent search engine, is a tool for finding resources on the
World Wide Web. Google scans web pages to find instances of the
keywords you have entered in the search box.You can search for more
than just text – check out the options below:
The basic Google search rules you NEED TO KNOW:
The advanced search function allows you to narrow down your search to specific
file types, publication dates, languages, specific sites, and more.
The more options that you choose, the fewer search results you will receive, and
the more likely they are to be what you are looking for.
However, you want to be sure that you aren’t narrowing it down too much
whereby you wouldn’t find enough stuff.
If you don’t get enough results, then try removing some of your limiters. If you
get too many results, try adding a limiter.
Using advanced search will help you find what you are looking for faster because
you don’t have to sort through as much stuff that is not what you are looking for.
Explanations
Questions to ask when evaluating websites found in
Google
Currency
Coverage
Is the information relevant to your topic and assignment?
What is the intended audience?
Is the material presented at an appropriate level?
Is the information complete?
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Web Pages to Avoid
Spam Pages. Spam pages are pages placed by sites that are deceptive in nature. They
contain keywords intended to fool Google and essentially exist for the sole purpose of
displaying advertisements. Google weeds out most of these, but sometimes one gets
through. Fortunately, you can report it to Google at www.google.com/contact/spamreport.html
so that they can eliminate it from their search results.
Commercial Pages. These types of sites are obviously trying to sell you something, which is
good if you are looking to buy something, but not good if you are trying to find reliable,
unbiased information. These types of websites are typically not helpful to researchers unless
you are looking to buy something or are looking for product information.
Logon Pages. These sites contain logon pages, which usually means you have to subscribe
to the site in order to view the information. Subscriptions may just require you to fill out a form
and provide personal information, or they may cost you money. Unless this is your last resort,
don’t waste the time. You can always come back later. These pages can be identified by
those asking for usernames and passwords.
Error Pages. These pages usually contain the word “Error” somewhere in the snippet and on
the page and usually describe the type of error. There’s nothing useful to you here, so if you
see “error” don’t go there.
Page Moved Pages. These usually contain the words “page moved”, “site moved”, “redirect”
or “redirecting”. Often times this means that the web page no longer exists and you are being
forwarded to the main page of the site.
Fun things in google
How to make researching assignments more
fun?
Google earth
Google maps
Google images
Groups
News updates
What is Google Scholar? http://scholar.google.com/
Only deals with academic material. Google Scholar provides a simple way to
broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many
disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and
articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories,
universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the
most relevant research across the world of scholarly research.
What is Google Book Search?
http://www.google.com/books
In Google Book Search you can search the full text of books to find ones
that interest you and learn where to buy or borrow them.
If a publisher or author has given Google permission, you'll see a full page
and be able to browse within the book to see more pages.
If the book is out of copyright, you'll see a full page and you can page
forward or back to see the full book.
Clicking on "Search within this book," allows you to perform more searches
within the book you've selected.
You can click on any of the "Buy this Book" links to go straight to an online
bookstore where you can buy the book.
1 billion posts – you can read messages, create or moderate your own group
News http://news.google.com
4,500 news sources updated continuously
Google Earth http://earth.google.com/
View the world
Google Map http://maps.google.com
Google Pack http://pack.google.com
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