Using Google Internet Searches to Make Your Job Easier Robin Arnicar, RN President, NADONA Director Clinical Operations Erickson Living Management

Objectives Recognize 2 search engines able to be used to search for topics Give 2 examples of symbols you can use in your search to locate the information you are searching for Gain understanding of how to use Google’s advanced search feature. Effectively locate potential training resources, policies and tools.

Why use the Internet? Find useful tools Look for a Policies Find Training Material Keep up to date with Regulations and professional news Assist with Presentations Vast Resources, a click away

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INTERNET FACTS  There are roughly 3.3 billion internet users in the world, which is only about 40% of the estimated world population  The top 5 most popular websites in the US are: Google, YouTube, Facebook, Amazon and Yahoo.  Google is the most popular search engine in the world. Followed by Bing,Yahoo, Baidu, and AOL.  Most people never go beyond the first page of search results on Google.

Search Engine a program that searches for and identifies items in a database that correspond to keywords or characters specified by the user, used especially for finding particular sites on the World Wide Web.

Google Search techniques  Search techniques are the methods you use to search catalogs, article databases, and web search engines to find information.  This lesson will cover some more advanced Google search techniques which can help you refine your searches.

Start Your Google Search by Being Specific. Tell the search engine exactly what you are looking for: Training, statistics Pictures/ images Statistics/ data Format: PowerPoint/ Excel/ Word, etc. Domain type

Examples of Advanced Search Techniques  Use quotation marks to search for phrases  Use the minus (-) symbol in front of a word to exclude it  Search in appropriate domains (.com,.edu,.gov)  Use the advanced search screen to help refine your search

Quotation Marks Quotation marks are used around phrases. By using quotations marks, you are telling the computer to only bring back pages with the terms you typed in the exact order you typed them. Example: “health care reform” instead of health AND care AND reform

Minus Symbol (-) Sometimes when searching the web, the computer displays lots of results that are not on your topic. For example, you want to find information on long term care, but most of the search results are pulling up Insurance. To remove these hits, search for: “long term care” -Insurance

To limit your search to a specific domain type  Add site: domain to your search.  Or use the advanced search option and type in the domain.

Domain Searching When searching the web, it is sometimes helpful to limit your results to a specific domain. The domain of a web site indicates the type of organization or geographic region from which the site originates. Helpful domain limiters include: –.edu-education –.gov-government, –.mil-U.S. military, –.org-organization –.com-commercial

Search Within a Site When you are looking for information from a specific site. Example: you want handwashing information but you only want it from CDC CDC.gov handwashing

Google’s Advanced Search

Honorable Mention: YOU TUBE

Lets try a few examples GOOGLE You tube

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