Searching the internet - Web search strategies
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Material of a workshop by Eric Sieverts
internet resources
encyclopedias
resource guides
database
books
magazines & journals
discussions & social media
courses
current awareness
web archive
translated search
searching the web - two approaches
directories / systematic subject-trees
search engines
"size" of the search tools
general properties of most search engines
best-match search
relevance ranking
still Boolean searching ?
also truncation?
more than just web search engines
what search engines CAN find
what search engines can NOT find - invisible web
what search engines can sometimes (not) find - deep web
deep web search
search strategies
building block approach
best-match approach
most specific element first
example
thinning approach
dates in Google
term expansion method
"citation" searching on the web
"citation" searching with search engines
recall-killers - why you miss relevant information
"exact phrases" often too restricting
variations in spelling and formulation
automatic searching for wordforms
hard to specify elements
precision-killers - why you retrieve (too much) non-relevant information
search strategy - very specific subjects
meta search engines
search strategy - general topics
keeping up with search tools & resources
keeping up with search tools & resources - websites, weblogs
keeping up with search tools & resources - e-mail & magazines
© Eric Sieverts, 2012
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last updated: 03/09/2012