Advanced Web Searching for Educators Paul Barron pbbarrongmail

Advanced Web Searching for Educators Paul Barron pbbarron@gmail. com and paul@duckgo. com All Right Reserved. This presentation may be copied and distributed for nonprofit educational purposes only. Revised and Sites Checked June 2016

Introduction "Tell me and I forget, show me and I remember, involve me and I understand. " Develop and run the search query in the search engine. Evaluate the information. 2

Why Teach Students Advanced Search Syntaxes? “Advanced syntax users demonstrate search expertise that the majority of user population does not. They are: n more adept at combining query operators to formulate powerful query statements and n return more relevant results Not only were they more successful in their searching, they were consistently more successful. ” Investigating the Querying and Browsing Behavior of Advanced Search Engine Users research. microsoft. com/~ryenw/papers/White. SIGIR 2007 b. pdf 3

Presentation Objectives n Review search syntaxes to search for: ¨ Terms on a webpage n ¨ Terms in a specific location on a Web document n ¨ Boolean operators – AND and OR Title and words the webpage title and address Webpages from a source n Specific website – k 12. va. us n Top Level Domain (TLD) –. edu, . gov, . info and. org 4

Research Topic n Find results on reading literacy programs best practices for middle school boys. ¨ Include results from n Organizations/associations, colleges and universities, and government sites n K-12 school divisions. 5

How the Query is Entered n Note the spacing, that phrases are enclosed within double quotation marks, and the Boolean AND operator is entered in UPPER CASE. 6

Search Query Guidelines Review n If your search term is more than one words enclose the terms within what punctuation? “double quotation marks” n Why? Searches for the words as a phrase 7

Use of “Double Quotation Marks” n Enclose search terms of two words or more to search for the terms as phrases. ¨ Keyword ¨ Phrase Search 8

Practice Searches Using the Boolean operator AND adds specificity to further describe your topic. Search Query # of Results “reading literacy” AND “best practices” AND “middle school” AND boys 9

Title Search Syntax - intitle: Returns results with specific words in the title of the search results. 10

Search Results Note that “reading literacy” is in the title of all search results. Also, note the “list of literature” and the “comprehensive … plan. ” 11

The inurl: Search The inurl: search returns results with terms in the webpage address. This search is very useful to find resources from k-12 school divisions. “reading literacy” AND “best practices” AND “middle school” AND boys AND inurl: k 12 12

Search Results NOTE All the results have k 12 in the webpage address. 13

Practice Searches # of Results Search Query intitle: “reading literacy” AND “best practices” AND “middle school” AND boys “reading literacy” AND “best practices” AND inurl: k 12 “reading literacy” AND “best practices” AND “middle school” AND boys AND inurl: k 12 14

Top Level Domain-Limited Search intitle: reading AND literacy AND “best practices” AND “middle school” AND boys AND site: org n Top Level Domain-limited Search – Returns results from the top level domain specified in the query; for example, . edu, . gov, and. org. 15

. org Limited Search Results Note that all search results are from the. org top level domain. 16

Top Level Domains (TLDs) TLD. com. edu. gov Purpose Commercial There are more than 1000 Educational top level domains and country -code top Government level domains. . mil Military . net Network . org Organization . us United States http: //www. iana. org/domains/root/db 17

Why limit the query to other TLDs? n For some informational queries, Google “trusts” (favors) the. gov and. edu TLDs and they will be ranked higher in the results. n To return another TLD to the top of the results you must limit the results to only that TLD; for example, site: org 18

Practice Searches Search Query # of Results intitle: reading AND literacy AND “best practices” AND “middle school” AND boys AND site: edu intitle: reading AND literacy AND “best practices” AND “middle school” AND boys AND site: gov intitle: reading AND literacy AND “best practices” AND “middle school” AND boys AND site: info intitle: reading AND literacy AND “best practices” AND “middle school” AND boys AND site: org 19

k 12. va. us-limited Query n k 12. va. us-limited Search - Restricts the results to only Virginia DOE webpages or Virginia school divisions with k 12 in their webpage URL. 20

k 12. va. us-limited Search Results Note that all search results are from a Virginia school division. 21

Recommendation n Begin searching with a title field search and Boolean expressions and limit the results to a top level domain or a specific website. ¨ intitle: “your topic” ¨ Boolean expressions – AND or OR add specificity to your query ¨ Top Level Domain – Select one concerned about your topic. n Associations or Organizations -. org n Educational Institutions -. edu n U. S. Government -. gov n Specific website - site: k 12. va. us 22

Query Syntax Help Sources Title URL http: //msdn. microsoft. com/en-us/library/ff 795620. aspx http: //tinyurl. com/23 xy 4 cm See Syntax at http: //duckgo. com/goodies. html http: //www. exalead. com/search/web/search-syntax/ http: //tinyurl. com/4 k 3 uzu 7 https: //sites. google. com/site/gwebsearcheducation/advanced-operators http: //tinyurl. com/6676 abd 23