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1. Google Talks
Tools and Techniques for Scholarly Research Google Confidential and Proprietary 1 August 31, 2007
2. Overview
Book Search Scholar News Archives Other Fun and Useful Stuff Patent Search Google Sky Notebook Translate RSS Reader iGoogle Conversions, Definitions Microfiche Q & A
3. Google’s Mission
Online ContentBillions of web pages Offline ContentBillions of items becoming indexed To organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Historically, all digital, already on the web; but there is a huge amount of information not currently on the web in books So, 2004 Google started to index this content through the launch of Google Book SearchHistorically, all digital, already on the web; but there is a huge amount of information not currently on the web in books So, 2004 Google started to index this content through the launch of Google Book Search
4. Google Book Search
Partner Program Library Project Full-text search across millions of books in over a dozen languages http://books.google.com
5. Google Book Search
Users search through every word and phrase in our index of the billions of web pages And view a few sentences from the web page Users search through every word and phrase in the index of books we’ve digitized And view a few sentences from a book page Same as regular Google search So How Does Google Book Search Work?
6. Google Scholar
Search scholarly content Tens of millions of items indexed, including peer-reviewed journals and abstracts Google works with publishers to crawl content behind firewalls Includes paid content – for subscribers or for sale – as well as open access Reference citations displayed Group multiple versions to improve ranking Links back to publisher’s site for authentication or sale http://scholar.google.com
7. Google News Archives
Google suggests time periods and publications Related results are grouped together http://news.google.com/archivesearch
8. Other Fun Stuff and Useful Tools
Patent Search http://www.google.com/ptshp Google Sky http://earth.google.com/sky Notebook http://www.google.com/notebook Translate http://translate.google.com RSS Reader http://www.google.com/reader iGoogle http://www.google.com/ig Conversions, Definitions Microfiche
9. Thank You!
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