How to Game a Search Engine
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Got a project? Want to win at Internet research? Change the game! Learn the ins and outs of existing search engines, which ones are actually useful, and how to take advantage.
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How to Game a Search Engine
- 1. How to Game a Search Engine
- 2. The Problem: Search engines don’t give you what you want - they just give you what’s popular!
- 4. Google
- 5. GoogleMost POPULAR result on top
- 6. Google Not useful for a student
- 7. Google This easy information is ALSO from Wikipedia!
- 8. Google You are encouraged to spend time goofing off on social media.
- 9. Bing
- 10. Bing Nothing about actual tigers!
- 11. Bing Again with the social media.
- 12. Yahoo
- 13. Yahoo No tigers.
- 16. Yahoo Social media. (Sort of.)
- 17. Conclusion: None of these search engines are geared toward students. They’re made to be fun and popular. So how can students find REAL information??
- 18. Google
- 23. Google’s Advanced Search Google will look for all of the words you type in this box… …And eliminate the words you type in this one!
- 25. NEW Google Results Better results (these are organizations, so you can cite them as sources!)
- 26. NEW Google Results No distracting stuff on the side
- 27. NEW Google Results Social media is less invasive
- 28. Bing
- 29. Bing Hey, here’s that symbol again!
- 30. Bing Wait, this isn’t the advanced search!
- 31. Bing After some digging, you find this. There’s no direct link from Bing’s main page. In case you want to reference this page, the shortened link is bit.ly/Jpxy2a .
- 32. Bing Looks like we can exclude search terms manually…
- 34. Bing …It doesn’t work at all.
- 35. Yahoo Advanced search is right where it should be!
- 36. Yahoo Hooray!
- 37. Yahoo What a neat idea! Let’s try it.
- 38. Yahoo Well, it’s not 100% there. The second result isn’t a .edu. But at least there’s nothing about Detroit!
- 39. Well, that’s OK. But what else is there?
- 42. Google Scholar Advanced search is NOT here!
- 44. Google Scholar
- 45. Google Scholar
- 46. Google ScholarMaybe we’ll need to be a little more specific…
- 47. Google Scholar…But we do have more options here.
- 48. Google ScholarThese links let you download the paper. (If you don’t see one, ask your librarian about databases!)
- 49. Google Scholar Citations are in black. They aren’t actually available online, but they are mentioned in other works – so you can get their information and look them up at the library later!
- 50. Google Scholar Now that we’re informed, let’s adjust the search…
- 51. Google Scholar Voila! A real source from real researchers – and you can download it, too!
- 52. Google Superpowers Now Available Google Guide: www.googleguide.com • Search within titles • Search by authors • Search for pdfs specifically • Much much more! *Most of the tricks you’ll learn in the Google Guide also work in Scholar!
- 54. Scirus Advanced search is right there
- 55. Scirus Multiple options for keeping your results
- 56. Scirus Lots of fun filters
- 57. Scirus Actual, useful, real-live results! Lots of these articles will be free, but just like with Google Scholar, you’ll run into some that aren’t. Don’t panic! Just bring the title and author to a librarian.
- 59. UCR Infomine They offer help!
- 60. UCR Infomine All kinds of modifiers. It is seriously nuts how much control you have over your search.
- 61. UCR Infomine While the results can be a little all-over-the-place, they’ll always be handpicked for their scholarly quality by actual librarians. In other words, no matter what you’re doing, it’s worth it to take a quick look.
- 63. Intute Despite this, Intute remains a great resource.
- 65. Intute Options continue for something like two pages
- 66. Intute The results are usually mid-level academic, making them perfect for kids!
- 67. Questions?