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Agenda
Picking the right search tool:
Subject Directories
Search Engines (e.g. Google, Yahoo, Baidu)
Metasearch Engines (e.g. PolyCola, Dogpile)
Specialized Search Engines (e.g. World Bank,
Medline)
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Part 1
Picking the Right Search Tool
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Subject Directories
Created by editors or trained researchers who select,
classify, and annotate () websites by subject.
Advantages Disadvantages
Useful for exploring broad Difficult to maintain the
subject areas updated-ness
Most useful if you are not Limited coverage, few sites
sure what specific are indexed
keywords to use Selective rather than
Information is classified into comprehensive
hierarchical structure by
human experts, ensuring
relevancy and value
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Google stopped supporting
directory search at the end of
2010.
http://www.ipl2.org/
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Subject Directories
e.g.
About.com [http://www.about.com/]
Refdesk [http://www.refdesk.com/]
dmoz [http://www.dmoz.org/]
WWW Virtual Library [http://vlib.org/] (started by Tim
Berners-Lee, founder of the web)
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Search Engines
Tools that use special software (called robots, spiders or crawlers)
to browse the Web and compile a searchable index without human
intervention.
2. Crawl () pages
and follow hyperlinks 3. Save the web content
1. Web Spider
& addresses as keywords
Keyword 1
Keyword 2
Keyword 3
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https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/use-search-bar-firefox
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Effective Search Strategies
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Effective Search Strategies
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Refine web searches
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Google
Setting Limits on Search Operators
URL, Site, and Domain Search
Examples :
admission site:mit.edu
global warming site:org
gov, go government agencies
org, or non-profit organizations
edu, ac educational/academic institutions
net network providers
com, co commercial sites
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Yahoo
https://help.yahoo.com/
Examples
DogPile [http://www.dogpile.com]
Get all the best search results from today's leading search engines,
including Google, Yahoo! and Bing.
Metacrawler [http://www.metacrawler.com]
PolyCola.com [http://www.polycola.com/] (originally GahooYoogle)
Search Google and Yahoo! and more at the same time.
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Metasearch Engines
Advantages Disadvantages
Provide an Do not offer the advanced features
overview of what is of individual search engine.
available on each
They may change or remove parts of
search engine.
the query you entered.
Good for simple
You cannot tell if all search engines
keyword search; or
are queried as claimed.
specific, obscure
search terms. They mix non-paid and sponsored
hits together in the same search
results list.
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Specialized Search Engines
The most focused tool -- usually limited to a specific topic but
provides in-depth information
Examples :
World Bank Open Data [http://data.worldbank.org/]
MedlinePlus
[http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/index.html]
Proprietary databases, e.g. Web of Science, Scopus
Quick Exercise
Type SARS to find information about Severe acute respiratory
syndrome from
Google
MedlinePlus [http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/index.html]
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http://library.polyu.edu.hk:80/record=b2437401~S2
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Part 2
Evaluating What You Have Found
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https://www.lib.polyu.edu.hk/research-support/help/guides/topical-research-
guide/evaluate-internet.htm
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Author Bradley, Phil, 1959-
Title Expert Internet searching / Phil Bradley.
Publisher London : Facet Pub., 2013
Edition 4th ed.
CALL NUMBER K5105.875.I57 B716 2013
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