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Web Searching and Tools for Using the Web More Effectively

International Legal Research. Web Searching and Tools for Using the Web More Effectively. Evaluating Web Sites. who authored/published? objectivity currency coverage ease of use beware of bogus sites!. "Who is" tools. Use www.domaintools.com or http://www.whois.org/

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Web Searching and Tools for Using the Web More Effectively

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  1. International Legal Research Web Searching and Tools for Using the Web More Effectively

  2. EvaluatingWeb Sites • who authored/published? • objectivity • currency • coverage • ease of use • beware of bogus sites!

  3. "Who is" tools Use www.domaintools.com or http://www.whois.org/ to find out "who is" behind a web site

  4. http://zapatopi.net/

  5. uga

  6. Types of Site Providers • government (including IGOs) • sellers • individuals (experts, scholars) • interest groups (including NGOs) • professional associations • libraries and universities

  7. Search Engines • Google • Yahoo • Clusty • MSN • AltaVista • Alltheweb • LawCrawler < < current front runner Use searchenginewatch.com to keep up with the latest developments in web searching

  8. More on Search Engines • they don’t search the web • indexes • created by crawlers • fraction of total pages • don’t index everything on a page

  9. What if you don’t find anything? • use search engine tools to broaden search • use a different search engine • identify databases or other sources of non-static pages

  10. Google “Advanced Search Tips” Page

  11. kosovo nato .int Note: the .int domain is used only for registering organizations established by international treaties

  12. OR site:.org

  13. Searching for German perspective on EU database directive’s “safe harbour” provisions…in english database safe harbour EU European Union .de

  14. http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/

  15. Personalizing your Google Searching

  16. google web history

  17. Alerts

  18. mexico president election

  19. Sample email msg from Google Alert

  20. Google Scholar • peer-reviewed papers • theses • books • preprints • abstracts • technical reports

  21. Google Scholar Daniel Bodansky

  22. Search results in Google Scholar

  23. and " " or protection environment international law war armed

  24. Turkey European Union

  25. http://www.boeckler.de/cps/rde/xchg/SID-3D0

  26. Also on the Google Language Tools page

  27. http://world.altavista.com A rolling stone gathers no moss.

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