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http://www.google.com
THE page to start from and for most web page searching.
http://www.google.com/advanced_search
Useful to change language of results pages, select from a list of filetype formats, or change content filtering for a single search. It's better to learn to use commands from Basic Search, because Advanced Search offers fewer options.
http://www.google.com/dirhp
Open Directory Project's 5 million selected sites, enhanced by Google ranking.
2. Second-Party Google Tools & Info Useful with Google
Country Codes and Other TLDs List
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_TLDs
All two-letter country codes and other authorized top level domain codes (TLDs). From useful online Wikipedia.
Pageinfo Better Than Google's: alexa.com
http://www.alexa.com/
Enter a URL in the search box. Click links under "Explore this site." Receive traffic ranking, links to the page, related pages, contact information, and access to page history by clicking on the link to the Wayback Machine Internet Archive.
3. The Google Family of Databases
http://www.google.com/grphp
Usenet Newsgroups since 1981 on many topics. Advanced Groups Search allows limiting by group, author, subject field, message ID, date, and filtering. Google Account (free) required to participate in groups.
http://www.google.com/imghp
Over 800 million images. Advanced Image Search allows limiting by filetype, size, colors, site or domain; and changing filtering.
http://news.google.com
4,500 news sources, covering last 30-days. Advanced News Search allows limiting by source, location, headlines, body, URL, and date.
http://local.google.com/
Drag to map area, search for cities or zip codes, view satellite image, get local information about businesses and services, find driving directions. Search web pages and yellow pages, specifying both a locality and item or topic to search for. Results match words and offer helpful subdivisions within results. Can limit to 1, 5, 15, 45 mile radius.
http://books.google.com
Search for book titles. Search within some books. Links to booksellers and
to libraries in some situtations (mostly when not for sale, it seems). May
need to register with Google to view some books (free).
http://scholar.google.com
Search citations of scholarly journal articles. Integrated with some academic
libraries' holdings. Still expanding.
http://video.google.com
Search for videos. Search uses closed captioning. Many may be viewed for free,
some for sale.
Google Shopping:
http://www.google.com/froogle
Froogle offers thousands of merchant-supplied catalogs and web pages, mostly keyed to websites. Froogle Advanced Search allows limiting by price range, category, where words occur in entries, and filtering; also change display by store and layout.
http://toolbar.google.com/
For browsers other than IE, Firefox, and for Macs: http://googlebar.mozdev.org
http://www.google.com/preferences
http://www.google.com/help/faq_filetypes.html
Google Language Tools (including Translation)
http://www.google.com/language_tools
Google Features (Shortcuts) Described
http://www.google.com/help/features.html
http://www.google.com/ig/usgov
Limits searches to US govt sites
http://www.google.com/options/universities.html
Limits searches to university's site. List of universities provided
http://labs.google.com/
Upcoming and emerging Google technologies.
5. Googling Help - Further Explanation of Google's Features
Google Guide by Nancy Blachman
http://www.googleguide.com
Very well written, fairly comprehensive online guide to many of the features of Google, with exercises and answers. Excellent section on Google Shortcuts. Written by a Google fan, who is also a mathematician, the Guide sometimes errs in favor of overlooking some of the frustrating and puzzling aspects of Google. Very useful to teach others the basics of Google and Google's family of databases and features. Use online through the CLICK TO BEGIN button, and choose a novice or experienced user level. Also available in printable PDF for a small fee.
6. Other Search Engines and Their Shortcuts
Yahoo! Search - http://search.yahoo.com/
Yahoo! Shortcuts List - http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts
Yahoo! Education and Reference Collections - http://education.yahoo.com/
Ask.com - http://ask.com
7. High-Quality Subject Directories - When Search Engines Aren't Enough
Librarians' Index to the Internet - LII.ORG
Internet Public Library Pathfinders - http://www.ipl.org/div/pf/
Academic Info - http://www.academicinfo.net
Infomine - http://infomine.ucr.edu/
8. Useful Bookmarklets for Searching
"Bookmarklets for Searching" article
http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/bmlets/
Greg
Notess's collection of bookmarklets that may be useful in searching. From
SearchEngineShowdown. Offers bookmarklets for transferring the same search
terms to another search engine. For instance, you've tried Google and you
wonder how the same search terms would work in another search engine.
NOTE: To use these or any other bookmarklets, drag them into your bookmarks,
personal toolbar, links bar, or equivalent in your browser:
Bookmarklets
for searching your library catalog
http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/stories/2002/12/11/librarylookup.html
Jon
Udell's Bookmarklets to check, for many OPACs worldwide, if a book is in a
library, once you know its ISBN (for instance, you are working from Amazon.com
or another database with ISBNs).
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Optional Interesting Reading about Searching and Googling
GMail: Google Storms the Webmail Market
http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/jul04/wiggins.shtml
Thorough, objective review of value and downsides of Google's email service.
Searcher,
vol. 12, no. 7, July-August 2004.
"The Nature of Meaning in the Age of Google"
http://informationr.net/ir/9-3/paper180.html
For anyone interested in the big picture of Google's impact on "meaning," a think piece on the effect of Google's success on indexing, web authoring, research, and other heavy topics.
Information Research, vol. 9, no. 3, April 2004
"Coming Soon: The Death of Search Engines"
http://www.llrx.com/features/deathsearchengine.htm
A think piece by Canadian search expert Rita Vine on trends and what search engines are not succeeding at.
Google Satire: FLASH humor from UK
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~pcxee/google_flash.htm
Extreme Googling 2006 - This material has been created by Joe Barker for the Infopeople Project [infopeople.org], supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian. Any use of this material should credit the author and funding source.