1. to the Googl ing Joe Barker jbarker at library.berkeley.edu John Kupersmith jkupersm at library.berkeley.edu A “Know Your Library” Workshop Teaching Library, University of California, Berkeley Spring 2007 Research Quality Web Searching, Part 1 COURSE PAGE URL: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Google.html Googling to the Max Copyright © 2012 The Regents of the University of California is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/contact.html.Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/contact.html

2. to the Googl ing Why Google? Biggest web search engine database 25 or more billion pages Results often include what you want Features, shortcuts, special databases & services

3. to the Googl ing Overview 1.How Google works 2.Exploiting Google’s “FUZZY” search options 3.Making your searches more precise 4.Handy tools and shortcuts 5.The best of Google’s family of databases 6.Google Books & Google Scholar

4. to the Googl ing How Google works Spider programs find pages on the public web, build huge database of web pages Search program gives you ways to search this database PageRank™ arranges your results Word proximity and placement Popularity - a link to a page is a vote for it Importance - traffic, popularity of pages linking to a page

5. to the Googl ing Let’s try it ! Hands-on exercises