Slides that help students search Google better

1. How 10
Google Tips
Improved
Our
Students
Research
Habits @drjmargerison

2. 1. Modify the search
intitle: find sites with one search term in the title
allintitle: find sites with all search terms in title
inurl: find sites with one search term in URL
allinurl: find sites with all search terms in URL

3. 2. Be precise with double quotes
Using double quotes with
most important words first
makes Google match the
search precisely
“Lady Macbeth downfall”

4. 3. Exclude words to ‘hone in’ search
Use the minus sign
-blogs faberge eggs
this will find results about faberge eggs
excluding information from blogs

5. 4. What has been created?
Do a file type search
filetype:PPT
filetype:doc
filetype:xls
ipad user guide filetype:PDF

6. 5. Are you using Google Scholar?
http://scholar.google.com
books, journal articles,
conference papers,
public domain research databases
In Google scholar the full text to the article is
often displayed as a link on the right hand side

7. 6.Broaden search with asterisk
Why Syrian borders are *

8. 7.Restrict your search to a site
The site: operator is great
for searching through a
specific site for content
site:bbc.com “world war
one”

9. 8. define:
Quick ways to grab
definitions or phrases
or acronyms

10. 9. Search with country operators
Sources are important. Do you know how to
access sources from different countries?
site:ir
site:sy
site:uk
site:au
site:jp

11. How are your students thinking about sources?
When sourcing articles in Google do they use country codes eg
site:sy arab spring
site:ir site:fr site:eg site:tn arab spring

12. explicit
teaching
about
primary
source
work on
Google
Designing online
learning involves
discussion about the
online research
process
What Google
operators are the
students using?
Are we teaching our
students about
Google Operators?

13. 10.Search with author names
Be specific with author names to narrow
research

14. Are your
students
comparing
search
results?

15. Be discerning in your
searching
@DrJMargerison