6. How Google works Googlebot “crawls” billions of web pages and indexes them The indexed pages are searchable Results are relevancy ranked Over 200 factors determine relevancy, including popularity
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8. Google search strategies Do not need “and” between terms Order matters, most prominent first Ignore punctuation
27. Things about Google News Some articles will be pay per view The archives are not all inclusive; only some information available When we talk about databases you’ll see a difference between what is here and what is there
31. Things about Google Books Many items are not full text But they do have links to libraries Quality of the scanned items is good, but you may find some that are hard to read
34. Things about Google Scholar Not all items are full text – many are citations or lead you to places you can purchase full text Don’t assume you have to purchase the item, bring the citation to the library When we look at databases next month you’ll see the difference between them and Scholar
35. Between now and our meeting… Look at all the stuff under Month 3 in the wiki, including assignments Use some Advanced Search tips when searching Google And BLOG!
36. When we meet in-person… You’ll learn how to use Delicious to organize your bookmarks Next in-person meetings (always available on the wiki in the Calendar): Sanford - Monday, Oct 11th, 4:45-6:45pm South - Tuesday, Oct 26th, 4-6pm Southwest - Thursday, Oct 28th, 4-6pm