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Advanced Google Spring 2018

A lot of what you find through Google isn’t right for your academic work. But there are ways to use Google’s tools effectively to find good information for your research. But finding that good information and sorting the good from the bad that can be tricky. Learn strategies on how to use Google’s less used search functions, and how to evaluate whether or not you’ve struck gold.

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

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Advanced

Using and Evaluating Online Info
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Sara Oestreich

soestre1@jhu.edu
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Heather Tapager

htapager@jhu.edu
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GOAL:
To better understand Google and find credible information for academic research.

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Tonight

  • Getting Familiar with Google
  • Common Google Pitfalls
  • Advanced Google Search
  • Evaluating Info from Google
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POLL

What is your favorite thing about Google?
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Untitled Slide

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POLL

How often do you go past the first page of results?
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POLL

What does Google Put at the Top of the Results List?
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Google Rankings

  • Number of links to site
  • User time spent on site
  • Social media prominence
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Reputation > Truth

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Example

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Try it

  • Think about a research project.
  • Search in Google
  • Fill out Google Sheet
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Google: You're doing it wrong.

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1. GOOGLE = All of the things

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Deep Web

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Google Can't Find

  • Complicated dynamic urls
  • Password protected sites
  • Unlinked content
  • Geo-tagged pages
  • Scripted content
  • Non-HTML/text content
  • Recently updated content
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POLL

What Frustrates you about google?
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2. Google search is not the same as a library search

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AND

Just leave it out
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LIBRARY:

carrots AND cabbage AND pumpkins

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GOOGLE:

carrots cabbage pumpkins

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GOOGLE:
carrots cabbage intext:pumpkins

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NOT

Use - before terms
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LIBRARY:

squash NOT pumpkins

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GOOGLE:

squash -pumpkins

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3. Punctuation & symbol misuse

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* Library = truncation


* Google = wildcard

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Parentheses

Google ignores them
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Useful Symbols

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POLL

Which of these pitfalls did you fall for?
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What is it good for?

  • Documentation and reports from government agencies, companies and educational institutions
  • New or cutting edge topics
  • Getting to open-access journals
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It's not so great at...

  • Finding scholarly sources
  • Finding quality evidence
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POLL

Have you used Advanced Google?
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Advanced Google

google.com/advanced_search
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Example

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Try it

  • Go to Advanced Google
  • Enter search terms, try some symbols and punctuation
  • Use limiters
  • Search
  • Fill out Google sheet
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POLL

What Clues Indicate Credibility?
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craap Test

  • Currency
  • Relevance
  • Authority
  • Accuracy
  • Purpose
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guides.library.jhu.edu/find/google

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guides.library.jhu.edu/evaluate

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