Advanced Web Searching for NTTIers

1. Advanced Web Searching for NTTIers Paul Barron George C. Marshall Foundation Director of Library and Archives barronpb@marshallfoundation.org pbbarron@gmail.com

2. Presentation Objectives Review search syntaxes to search for: Search terms on a webpage Search terms inaspecific location on a Web document Title Web address (URL) Webpages from asource Specific website Top Level Domain (TLD) Country Code (ccTLD) 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School

3. Search Query Crafting and Format I need teacher and student resources on climate change for my middle school class and I would like them to be from a U.S. Government agency. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School • Develop the query the way you think about and state your topic. • Format • Topic + Modifiers + Limiters to Refine Search • Example

4. Query Standardization intitle:“climate change” AND “teacher resources” OR “student resources” AND “middle school” AND site:gov 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School

5. Phrase Search • Phrase Search - A phrase is more than one keyword. When the terms are enclosed within “double quotation marks,” Google searches for them as exact phrase and return documents with the terms in the exact order as stated in the query. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School

6. Phase Search Results 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School

7. More search tools Options 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School

8. Related Searches Related Searches provides other suggested searches related to your query. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School

9. Related Searches 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School

10. Wonder wheel Hub and Spokes Wonder Wheel visually presents connections between related searches and your search term as an interactive diagram. Let’s expand our “small world” of George C. Marshall-related sites. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School

11. Expanded Hub and Spokes Search Exercise Using Google’s Wonder Wheel, build your small world on a topic of interest to you. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School

12. AND Boolean Operator • AND – Both of the search terms are present in the Web documents. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School

13. AND Boolean Expression • AND Boolean Expression - Retrieves Web documents in which the phrases George C. Marshall and Marshall Plan are present on the webpage document. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School

14. AND Boolean Expression Results NOTE All the results have the phrases George C. MarshallandMarshall Plan in the snippet. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School

15. Boolean AND Search for a Glossary • “special education law” AND glossary • “climate change” AND glossary • “k-12 education” AND inclusion AND glossary • "differentiated instruction" AND glossary • "school issues" AND glossary 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School

16. OR Boolean Expression • OR – At least one of the search terms is present on the webpage document. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School

17. OR Boolean Expression • OR Boolean Expression - Retrieves Web documents in which at least one of the phrases, Marshall Plan or European Recovery Program is present on the webpage document. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School

18. OR Boolean Expression Results NOTE Only the phrase Marshall Plan appears in the second result. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School

19. We have learned about … • Google’s Search Tool Options • Finding search terms on a webpage • Single keywords • Phrases of more than one word • Enclose terms “double quotation marks” to search for a phrase • Searching with Boolean expressions 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School

20. Let’s learn to find … • Search terms in a specific location on the webpage. • Webpage title • Webpage address (URL) • Uniform Resource Locator - The standard addressing scheme for the Web. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School

21. Title Field Searching “The document title … is the single most important element used by search engines to index a document.” Effective Internet Search: E-searching Made Easy! Edward N. Baylin and Judith Gill ISBN - 0921354053 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School

22. Title Field Searching “Ask a group of search engine optimization specialists what the single most important factor in determining high rankings and most will vote for the mighty title tag.” The Truth about Search Engine Optimization Rebecca Lieb ISBN 0-7897-3831-7 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School

23. Title Field Search Query • TitleFieldSearch (intitle:) - Retrieves the keyword or phrase in the webpage title which appears in the title bar on the browser. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School

24. Title Field Search Results NOTE The phrase George C. Marshall appears in the title of the results. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School

25. Title Field Search Time! • intitle:“your topic” AND “teacher resources” • intitle:“your topic” AND “teacher resources” AND “your school level” • intitle:“your topic” AND “teacher resources” AND “your grade level” REMEMBER The syntax is intitle: 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School

26. inurl: Search Query – Single Word Option • URL-limited Search (inurl:) – Finds a string of characters in the Web address. • One word option • Dashed option REMEMBER The syntax is inurl: 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School

27. inurl: Search Results – Single Word Option NOTE The results are from Austria and Germany. Were those sites returned in other demonstrated searches? 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School

28. inurl: Search Query – Dashed Word Option NOTE The results are all different from those returned with the one word URL query. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School

29. inurl: Queries • inurl:k12 AND “your topic”AND “teacher resources” • inurl:k-12 AND “your topic”AND “teacher resources” • inurl:yourtopic AND inurl:k12 AND english 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School

30. Points about inurl Search Queries • Research by indicates that an inurl search may return better results than a title field search. • Words in the URL may be more descriptive of the site. • The inurl search query may return results that would not be returned in any other type of search query. I’m sui generis! inurl 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School

31. We have learned to find … • Search terms on a webpage with: • Search terms in a specific location in the structure of the webpage: 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School

32. Finding Webpages from a Source Top Level Domain Site-limited Search k12.va.us Specific website Country Code Top Level Domains (ccTLD) Countries 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School

33. Top Level Domains (TLDs) 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School

34. Top Level Domains: Seen these? 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School

35. Top Level Domain-limited (TLD) Query • Top Level Domain-limited Search - Restricts the results returned to only the top level domain stated in the query; for example, the international top level domain (int). 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School

36. .int Top Level Domain Results 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School

37. Your turn to limit to TLDs! intitle:“your topic” AND“your school level” AND “teacher resources” AND site:org intitle:“your topic” AND“your school level” AND “teacher resources” AND site:edu intitle:“your topic” AND“your school level” AND “teacher resources” AND site:gov 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School

38. Try one of these TLD-limited queries! • intitle:"climate change" AND agreements AND protocols AND site:int • intitle:"climate change" AND agreements AND protocols AND site:info • "food banks" AND use AND unemployment AND site:coop • obesity AND “elementary school students” AND site:info 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School

39. k12.va.us-limited Query • k12.va.us-limited Search - Restricts the results to only Virginia DOE webpages or Virginia school divisions with k12 in their webpage URL. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School

40. k12.va.us-limited Search Results 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School

41. Your turn for k12.va.us-limited searches! • “your topic” AND“your school level” AND “teacher resources” AND site:k12.va.us • “your topic” AND“grade level” AND “teacher guide” AND site:k12.va.us • “your topic” AND“your school level” AND “lesson plans” AND site:k12.va.us 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School

42. Try these k12.va.us-limited queries. • “your topic” AND links OR resources OR websites AND site:k12.va.us • “your topic” AND “your school level” AND links OR resources OR websites AND site:k12.va.us • “your topic” AND “your grade level” AND links OR resources OR websites AND site:k12.va.us 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School

43. Try these k12.va.us-limited queries. • sol AND “your subject” AND “school level” AND “practice tests” AND site:k12.va.us • inurl:sol AND “your subject” AND “school level” AND “practice tests” AND site:k12.va.us • intitle:“sol practice tests” AND “your subject” AND “school level” AND site:k12.va.us 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School

44. Check out this k12.va.us-limited search! 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School

45. Karen’s Resources for Teachers 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School

46. Site-limited Query • Site-limited Search - Restricts the results to a specific website in the given domain; for example, only the Marshall Foundation website. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School

47. Site-limited Search Results NOTE All the results are Marshall Foundation webpages. 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School

48. Portaportal Site-limited Search 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School

49. Your turn for site-limited searches! • animations AND site:free.ed.gov • “world studies” AND site:free.ed.gov • “language arts” AND site:free.ed.gov • “earth sciences” AND site:free.ed.gov 2010 National Teacher Training Institute – Harrisonburg High School

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