Super SearchingOnline Search Tips

Search Engine Popularity• In early 2010, more than half of adults using the Internet used

a search engine

Privacy and Searching• Three-quarters of search users say collecting information to

personalize search results is not okay

• http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2012/Search-Engine-Use-2012.aspx

Browser Use Statistics• June-Dec. 2012

Search Engine Optimization• Helps webpages move to the top of the results list• Designed to “fool” the system• Uses coding and/or writing to help a page rank higher in

results

Search Engine Games• http://blindsearch.fejus.com (Bing and Google)

• http://blekko.com/ws/you+search+terms+/monte (Bing, Google, and Blekko

Advanced Search Features• Google

• http://search.yahoo.com/web/advanced• http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en• http://www.bing.com

Other Search Engines• Blekko• http://blekko.com• http://blekko.com/ws/+/press-videos• Slashtag search

• DuckDuckGo• http://duckduckgo.com/• Instant and zero-click results• No tracking

Proprietary Databases• Commercial databases: part of invisible web aka the “deep”

web• Search engines cover less than 20% of the entire web

Scholarly Resources• Wolfram Alpha• http://www.wolframalpha.com/

• Google Scholar• http://scholar.google.com/

• Microsoft Academic Search• http://academic/research.microsoft.com/

• EBSCOhost Research Databases• http://search.ebscohost.com/

• Username: ns021680• Password: password

Blast from the Past• Wayback machine• http://www.archive.org/

• CyberCemetery• http://govinfo.library.unt.edu

• Google Cache• http://www.google.com• Search using cache:URL

Media Searching• What types of media are commonly searched for?• Books/Print• Images• Video

Books/Print Search• Project Guttenberg• http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/main_page

• Google Book Search• http://books.google.com/

• Small Demons• http://www.smalldemons.com

Image Search• Google Images• http://www.images.google.com

• Refine image search to find similar images

Photos• Flickr• http://www.flickr.com• Flickr – The Commons

• Http://www.flickr.com/commons/

Art• National Library of Medicine Digital Collections• http://collections.nlm.nih.gov/muradora/

• National Gallery of Art Images (NGA Images)• https://images.nga.gov/

Videos• YouTube• http://youtube.com

• Vimeo• http://vimeo.com/

Video Libraries• PBS Learning Media• http://www.pbslearningmedia.org

• C-SPAN Video Library• http://www.c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary/

• YouTube EDU• http://www.youtube.com/education

• Lectures• Images