Internet Search presentation for use with staff and students.

1. MakingInternetSearchesProductive

2. What are they doing atthe University of Michigan?

4. [Grand Rapids Museum] In this presentation anytime you see [ ] this is what you enter into Google Maps for businesses and Links from the site itself.

5. F5 – RefreshF6 - Highlight URL (webaddress)F3 - Search Page

6. ORGANIZE A SEARCH STRATAGY.- What is it I'm looking for? (Keywords)How would someone else talk about it?Which of those terms would be most common?Which of those terms would be very specialiszzed to the topic?What kind of thing would make me happy?

7. USATODAY.com on Firefox USATODAY.COM on IE

8. [Afghanistan] Select type of results you are aftersuch as images Define the size Type – Face Any Color

9. [Narnia]

10. When you eat pig, the meat is called?When you eat sheep, the meet is called?What you eat deer, the meet is called?What is Australian kangaroo meat called?

11. [Australia meat name]

12. [australus: definition] Multiple SitesConfirm

13. Endangered Tree Octopushttp://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus

14. Be a detective, don’t be fooled http://snopes.com/info/top25uls.asp

15. What is it? [Upper lip skin]

17. Gear part of 10 spead

18. [bicycle parts]

19. [bicycle parts cassette wrench]

20. How would you find the name of this? White flower with 3 pedals and yellow center

21. The hidden Web KDL / GRPL- Beyond Google Databases MEL.ORG E-Library KIDS INFOBITS Info Track JR SIRS DISCOVER

22. Google displays the latest scores

23. What’s that carnival song? You know the one that you sing when someone is clowning around!!!

24. ["doot doot doodle-oodle oot doot do do“]

25. A search for [ "Alexander Bell" ] (with quotes) will miss the pages that refer to Alexander G. Bell.

26. 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.

27. Words that are commonly used, like 'the,' 'a,' and 'for,' are usually ignored (these are called stop words). With Exceptions like [the who]

29. [10lbs in ounces] [population MI] [Delta 1039] [231]

31. Language Tools

33. Languages include, but are not limited to, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Arabic, Polish, Thai, Turkish and Russian.

34. Advanced Search Boolean Search

37. Book Search

38. There are three types of books: In-copyright and in-print books In-copyright and out-of-print books Out-of-copyright books

41. Online access to entire books

42. Search your own collection of books with "My Library"

45. Search the Book

46. Popular Passages

47. Book Reviews

48. References from other Books

50. Journals

52. Magazines

53. Blogs

55. Options to help you with your query

56. Google News

58. U.S. news

59. Business news

60. Entertainment news

61. Sports newsAdvanced Search Options

64. Google Alerts

66. Create a custom search page.