Transcript University of Berkeley Google Course: Googling to the Max

Research Quality Web Searching, Part 1
Googling
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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
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Why Google?
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Biggest web search engine database
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25 or more billion pages
Results often include what you want
Features, shortcuts, special databases
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Overview
1. How Google works
2. Exploiting Google’s “FUZZY” search options
3. Making your searches more precise
4. Handy tools and shortcuts
5. The best of Google’s family of databases
6. Google Books & Google Scholar
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How Google works
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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
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Word proximity and placement
Popularity - a link to a page is a vote for it
Importance - traffic, popularity of pages
linking to a page
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Let’s try it !
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Hands-on exercises