1. To begin—get their attention: New Spice, Study Like a Scholar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ArIj236UHs

2. Become a GoogleMeister!
(revised 11-12)
Cheryl Youse, MLS
Colquitt County High School
Moultrie, GA 31768
229/890-6291
http://colquitt.high.schooldesk.net/
http://bit.ly/cchsmedia
cyouse@colquitt.k12.ga.us
cyouse@gmail.com

3. Think you’re good at searching?
Learn to be even better!
Amaze and astound your friends and students!

4. How big IS the Internet?
• According Pingdom, a web monitoring
company, that documents the number of
accessible websites, as of December 2011
there were around 555 million, with 300
million of those sites added in 2011 (Pingdom,
2012). This is the “era of information
abundance”—the web does not serve as a
scholarly resource but instead a resource to
be carefully navigated. So, learning to search
properly is EVEN MORE IMPORTANT!!

5. IPV6
• Internet Protocol Version 6 launched in June 2012
• In 1993, there were 43 billion internet addresses available
(IPV4)
• With mobile devices, that is not enough
• IPV6 has 340 trillion trillion trillion addresses or 3.4 x 10 38

6. Forget about domains indicating quality
(for the most part)
Check out domain name prices at godaddy.com

7. .edu and .gov
are still the most reliable sources
• ~ (tilde) in the website name indicates it is a
personal page and it may not be
dependable, even on .edu sites
• http://e360.yale.edu/feature/mysteries_of_killer
_whales_uncovered_in_the_antarctic/2490/
• http://www.nsrl.ttu.edu/tmot1/orciorca.htm
• http://www.indiana.edu/~ensiweb/lessons/whal
e.ev.html
• http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~MidLink/whale.html

8. • Remember—Google is a CONSUMER
product, meant to appeal to the widest
possible audience
• Default search= EVERYTHING
• Advanced search= You now have to put in a
search term and then click on the cog in the
upper right hand corner to get to advanced
search

9. Advanced Search
Shows up AFTER you enter a search term
• All these words • Site or domain
• Exact word or phrase • Last update
• Any of these words • Terms appearing
• None of these words • Reading level
• Numbers ranging
from • Filetype
• Language • Usage rights
• Region

10. How Search Works
Matt Cutts from Google on How Search Works
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNHR6IQJ
GZs
How Search Engines Work (Thanks to Karen Liebert)
• http://www.learnthenet.com/animated-
internet/how-search-engines-work/index.php

11. Search for results, not questions
Ex. Student search: How fast does the space
shuttle fly?
Better: space shuttle travels at a speed of about

12. The Top Panel
(This comes up after you input your initial search)

13. “More” = more specific types of results

14. Refine by date published, types or results,
location

15. Refine by sites with images, reading level, translated
foreign pages, nearby, etc.

16. To refine by reading level: search
tools, reading level

17. Videos
Check the left hand panel to search
for videos. If your school blocks
youtube, you may be able to find a
video from National
Geographic, PBS, CNN or another
reliable source that you can
access. You can also specify Closed
Captioning, quality and length
when doing a video search.

18. To refine video search results, after getting
results, choose duration, date, quality, captioning, or
source

19. Librarian Secret Weapon
Scenario: “My friend read this book and he said
it was really good and I want to read it…but I
don’t remember the title. Or the author. But it
was about computer games. And it was RED.”
Search: Google Images>”video games” book
cover> sort by color red>VOILA! Was it Ready
Player One by Ernest Cline? “Yes!”

20. My friend read a book about video games I want to
read….but I can’t remember the title….but it’s red!

21. To search by image color: choose image search, “search tools”,
“color”. If you need a diagram, choose “any type”, “line
drawing”

22. To get another point of view:
• Go to Google News and choose a country or
region whose viewpoint you want
• If the article is not in English, copy and paste it
into Google translator

23. The Top Panel
• Images: By subject (Google •Places: looks closest to your location
breaks down into smaller but you can change it
topics), size, icon, color, type •Books (google Books)
—face, photo, clip art, line •Blogs: homepages, date
drawing (this one is great
when teachers need •Flights: default is airport near your
diagrams) location
• Maps: show what (relating to •Discussions: forums, question and
your search term) is near your answers
(or any) geographic location •Recipes: cook
• Videos: time, ingredients, number of calories
Duration, Date, Quality, Sourc
e •Applications: apps for various
• News: date, top stories (not devices
relating to subject) •Patents
• Shopping: online and specific •Sites with images
stores, sort by •Sources: can choose specific sources
category, price, in stock, etc.

24. Student Search Techniques
• Sites with images
• Search by color
• Define:
• Reading level
• ADVANCED SEARCH

25. Teacher Search Techniques
• Image search: Line Drawing to find diagrams
• Search a specific date range
• Translated foreign pages: news—choose a
country>translate
• Panoramio (pictures from all over the world)
• Videos
• ADVANCED SEARCH

26. Boolean Operators with Google
• Phrase search ("")
By putting double quotes around a set of words, you are telling Google to consider the
exact words in that exact order without any change. Google already uses the order and
the fact that the words are together as a very strong signal and will stray from it only for a
good reason, so quotes are usually unnecessary. By insisting on phrase search you might
be missing good results accidentally. For example, a search for [ "Alexander Bell" ] (with
quotes) will miss the pages that refer to Alexander G. Bell.
• Search single word exactly as is ("")
Google employs synonyms automatically, so that it finds pages that mention, for
example, childcare for the query [ child care ] (with a space), or California history for the
query [ ca history ]. But sometimes Google helps out a little too much and gives you a
synonym when you don't really want it. By putting double quotes around a single
word, you are telling Google to match that word precisely as you typed it.
• Search within a specific website (site:)
Google allows you to specify that your search results must come from a given website. For
example, the query [ iraq site:nytimes.com ] will return pages about Iraq but only from
nytimes.com. The simpler queries [ iraq nytimes.com ] or [ iraq New York Times ] will
usually be just as good, though they might return results from other sites that mention
the New York Times. You can also specify a whole class of sites, for example [ iraq site:.gov
] will return results only from a .gov domain and [ iraq site:.iq ] will return results only
from Iraqi sites.

27. • Terms you want to exclude (-)
Attaching a minus sign immediately before a word indicates that you do not want pages
that contain this word to appear in your results. The minus sign should appear
immediately before the word and should be preceded with a space. For example, in the
query [ anti-virus software ], the minus sign is used as a hyphen and will not be
interpreted as an exclusion symbol; whereas the query [ anti-virus -software ] will search
for the words 'anti-virus' but exclude references to software. You can exclude as many
words as you want by using the - sign in front of all of them, for example [ jaguar -cars -
football -os ]. The - sign can be used to exclude more than just words. For example, place
a hyphen before the 'site:' operator (without a space) to exclude a specific site from your
search results.
• Fill in the blanks (*)
The *, or wildcard, is a little-known feature that can be very powerful. If you include *
within a query, it tells Google to try to treat the star as a placeholder for any unknown
term(s) and then find the best matches. For example, the search [ Google * ] will give
you results about many of Google's products (go to next page and next page -- we have
many products). The query [ Obama voted * on the * bill ] will give you stories about
different votes on different bills. Note that the * operator works only on whole
words, not parts of words.
• The OR operator
Google's default behavior is to consider all the words in a search. If you want to
specifically allow either one of several words, you can use the OR operator (note that
you have to type 'OR' in ALL CAPS). For example, [ San Francisco Giants 2004 OR 2005 ]
will give you results about either one of these years, whereas [ San Francisco Giants
2004 2005 ] (without the OR) will show pages that include both years on the same page.
The symbol | can be substituted for OR. (The AND operator, by the way, is the default, so
it is not needed.)

28. Google Voice
• Get a Google Phone number for those times
you need to give a number or make a call
without giving away your true number OR
seeing the actual number of the person calling
you so students can contact you without
worrying about impropriety—you won’t have
their actual phone number, and they won’t
have yours.
• https://www.google.com/voice

29. Google Fun Searches
• Once in a blue moon
• No Chuck Norris
• Elmer Google
http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=xx-elmer
• Google Black http://www.blackl.com/black-
google.php

30. Google Widgets
• A google a Day http://agoogleaday.com/
• Google Custom Search (if you’re the webmaster)
• iGoogle
• Weather
• Countdowns
Google Bookmarks
• Book mark your favorite sites and access them from ANY
computer

31. Other interesting stuff about Google
• The Google Car!
• Google Map borders!
• The name ‘Google’ was an accident. A spelling mistake
made by the original founders who thought they were
going for ‘Googol’.
• Employees are encouraged to use 20% of their time
working on their own projects. Google News, Orkut are
both examples of projects that grew from this working
model.
• Google rents goats (200 goats to eat the weeds and
brush on company property).
• Employees can take their dogs to work (as long as
they—the dogs—follow company policy).

32. The Google Car
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-
nYhKD8leAg
• Google has a fleet of self-driving cars (Priuses)
taking photos for Google maps (street view).
• Equipment to make them self-driving costs
about $150,000 per car.
• Probably won’t be for sale for about 20 years.
• Imagine how the visually impaired will feel
when they can drive themselves!

33. Google Map Borders
Google map borders are in different locations
depending on the location from which you are
viewing them. After fielding a number of
complaints about the placement of
borders, Google now delivers localized versions
to different users depending on your ISP.

34. Where do I learn this stuff…
• Search Engine Watch
http://searchenginewatch.com/
• PC Magazine
• https://sites.google.com/site/gwebsearcheduc
ation/webinars
• Tasha Bergson-Michelson of Google
• LM_Net
• Conferences

35. Thank you!
Happy Hunting!

36. Videos
• It’s a Book – Lane Smith
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4BK_2VULC
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• So You Want to be a Librarian
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RGccQFxi3U
• Dewey Decimal Rap
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHiUQb5xg7
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• Study Like a Scholar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ArIj236UHs