Coming again in the Fall or next Spring: Advanced
Google; The Hidden Web - a newly updated and
revised presentation, including hands-on practice. The
attendees will be given access to ALL the Copyright training
material, cheat sheets, etc., under a
Creative Commons
license. This course should be especially interesting to
EDUCATORS, TRAINERS and RESEARCHERS.
More tips for
finding MUSIC with Google:
String Format - try this first:
Type 1 : [Directory String] + (inurl:)[file type] + [mp3 name]
Type 2 : [Directory String] + (intitle:)[file type] + [mp3 name]
Type 3 : [Directory String] + [file type] + [mp3 name] + [limitors]
Example Strings :
- intitle:index.of + mp3 + "dr john" -html -htm -php -asp -txt -pls
- "index of" + "mp3" + "radiohead" -html -htm -php
- "index of" + mp3 + "grandaddy"
- "index of" + inurl:mp3 + "beatles" -txt -pls
- "index of" + intitle:mp3 + beatles
- "last modified" + "shn" + "dylan"
- "last modified" + inurl:shn + "bob dylan"
- "parent of" + inurl:wma + "grandaddy"
Suggestions :
- Try (intitle:index.of + "mp3" + "band name" -htm -html -php -asp)
first it
is usually the most effective.
Another trick:
- If you have been getting a lot of results on google but the pages
don't seem
to be there try adding dates and the "apache" string to your search
i.e.
- intitle:index.of + mp3 + "grandaddy" -html -htm -php -asp apache
feb-2007
- intitle:index.of + mp3 + "grandaddy" -html -htm -php -asp apache
2007
or if you just want a big list of mp3' doing a search like this every
month
- intitle:index.of + mp3 + -html -htm -php -asp apache may
or if you want to condense the search try
- intitle:index.of + (mp3|ogg) + "grandaddy" -(html|php|asp) +apache
may-2007
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A GOOGLE tips and references PAGE is forthcoming.
Google deserves its own page. Stay tuned.
Searching for images? Use this search string to
find indices of images. In the example, we are looking
for images of cows or cowboys, or anything that has COW in
the first part of the word: intitle:index.of + .jpg OR .bmp
OR. png OR .gif + "cow~" -html -htm -php -asp -txt -pls
NEW MULTI-SEARCH TOOL:
http://www.sputtr.com/
Searching THIS SITE. TIP: Use Google. If you
were looking for information on VISTA, use the following
search string: spcug.net +Vista Alternatively, you can
use:
site: spcug.net "Linux" which restricts the search.
GOOGLE
SEARCHING TIP: Use Google and other search engines to
locate searchable databases by searching a subject term and
the word "database". If the database uses the word database
in its own pages, you are likely to find it in Google. The
word "database" is also useful in searching a topic in the
Google Directory or the Yahoo! directory, because they
sometimes use the term to describe searchable databases in
their listings. The Wikipedia "Deep Web" article <
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_web > provides a
fairly up-to-date summary of the problems, current state,
and technologies associated with the phenomenon.
EXAMPLES for Google & Yahoo:
plane crash database
languages database
toxic chemicals database
[Thanks to UC Berkeley Library for
this information.]
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The
principles of Smart Searching:
1. Know Where To Look First
Are you looking for information about a person? A company? A
software product? A health-related problem? Do you want to
find a job? Get a date? Plan a vacation? Do you need to
research a term paper? Document a news story? Size up your
company's competition?
There are various databases containing specific information
that might be more useful to you than a general search
engine.
2. Fine-tune your keywords
If you're searching on a noun (the name of a person, place
or thing), remember that most nouns are subsets of other
nouns. Enter the smallest possible subset that describes
what you want. Be specific. Try to meet the search engine
halfway by refining your search before you begin.
Example: If you want to buy a car, don't enter the keyword
"car" if you can enter the keyword "Toyota." Better still,
enter the phrase "Toyota Dealerships" AND the name of the
city where you live.
3. Be Refined
Read the help files and take advantage of the available
search refining options. Use phrases, if possible. Use the
Boolean AND (or the character +) to include other keywords
that you would expect to find in relevant documents.
Also learn to EXCLUDE with the Boolean NOT. Excluding is
particularly important as the Web grows and more documents
are posted. Run your initial query over again several times,
each time adding further refinements to narrow down your
list of relevant hits.
Example: If you want to find out how medical details about
your grandmother's diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease, try
entering "Alzheimer's" AND "symptoms" AND "prognosis." If
you want to find out about Alzheimer's care and community
resources, query on "Alzheimer's" AND "support groups" AND
"resources" AND NOT "symptoms."
4. Query by example
Take advantage of the option that many search engine sites
are now offering: you can "query by example," or "find
similar sites," to the ones that come up on your initial hit
list. Essentially what you're doing is telling the search
engine, "yes, this looks promising, give me more like this
one."
5. Anticipate the answers
Before searching, try to imagine what the ideal page you
would like to access would look like. Think about the words
its title would contain. Think about what words would be in
the first couple of sentences of a webpage that you would
consider useful. Use those words, or that phrase, when you
enter your query.
[Source: The Spider's
Apprentice was conceived and written by Linda Barlow, who
maintains this site for Monash Information Services.
Updated: 05/11/04 Copyright, 1996-2004, Monash Information
Services. All rights reserved. To discuss permission to
re-use any of our material, or to translate into other
languages, contact Linda Barlow at the above e-mail
address.]
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Simply Google for Google Searches - [thanks, Jess.] http://lloydi.com/blog/simplygoogleoriginal.htm
Google Email tips page:
gmailTipsPage.htm
Google's new STREETVIEW.
http://maps.google.com/help/maps/streetview/index.html