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Searching Tips: Building High-Powered Search Skills

Searching Tips: Building High-Powered Search Skills. Wayne Hodgins, Masie Fellow & Strategic Futurist Karalynn Rieff, Walt Disney Company. This session is designed for your interaction and participation. Your engagement is necessary!. Search Engines & Useful URL’s. Bing.com Yahoo.com

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Searching Tips: Building High-Powered Search Skills

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  1. Searching Tips: Building High-Powered Search Skills Wayne Hodgins, Masie Fellow & Strategic Futurist Karalynn Rieff, Walt Disney Company This session is designed for your interaction and participation. Your engagement is necessary!

  2. Search Engines & Useful URL’s • Bing.com • Yahoo.com • Google.com • Use the Human Network • Translating languages? • http://babelfish.yahoo.com/ • Try multiple engines • Don’t forget to collaborate on the wiki and add your own!

  3. Search Engines & Useful URL’s • Google Goggles: http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=166331 • Images & Video • http://www.tineye.com/ • http://www.gazopa.com • http://flickr.com • Google Images • Youtube.com • Mathmatical/Science specialized: wolframalpha.com • Don’t forget to collaborate on the wiki and add your own!

  4. Advanced features for search engines • Boolean • Dog NOT Cat • Dog AND Cat • Dog OR Cat • Look on your search engine for operators like “” or + to help you…. • Check the engine’s help

  5. Diving Deep • Look on the Deep Web • Multiple search engines – different results • Aggregators by subject area • Consider the source (is it .edu or “Joe’s blog on subject?) • Multi step approach – • Use many engines • Search your search results Control – F (windows) on a page • Look beyond the text – audio files, video, photo

  6. Diving Deep – URLs • http://aip.completeplanet.com • http://www.online-college-blog.com/index.php/features/100-useful-tips-and-tools-to-research-the-deep-web/

  7. Building Organization-Wide Search Skills • Change your mindset/habits • It’s about FINDING not Searching • One word isn’t always the magic cure • Share your best practices • Keep in mind there’s a Human Network • Internal communication tools (e.g. twitterlike) • Email, face-to-face

  8. Reminders.. • Rare that you find what you want w/ a WORD • Single keyword results in ONE result? How often? • Type a question into the search box. • Tag data (when/where possible) to make internal searches better. Even one word is better than none!

  9. Other topics… • Aboutness – finding things related to a topic or not specifically stated in your search (example: Schnauzer when searching for dog) • Symantec Web – adding meaning to the Web • Visual search – Google Goggles and augmented reality on portable devices • Change your perspective – it’s not about the search technology, it’s more about how and when you use it.

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