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Google is not the only search tool
ARLG – ISG
Wednesday, 9th July 2014, CILIP, LondonPresenter: Karen Blakeman
What I see on my screen will not be what you see on your screen, will not be what your colleagues see on theirs, will not be
what your users see.
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Hummingbird
Not just an update but a completely new algorithm
Tries to make “sense” of your query and put it into context, natural language queries
Uses search history, your location, what other people have searched on and clicked on, device being used
Now difficult to predict how Google will handle your search and how results will be displayed
Layout of results and menu options depend on type of search
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EU - so called “right to be forgotten” ruling
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Edition of Monday, January 19, 1998, page 23 - Newspaper - Lavanguardia.es http://hemeroteca.lavanguardia.com/preview/1998/01/19/pagina-23/33842001/pdf.html
EU Court of Justice ruled that Google is a “data controller” under Data Protection legislation and must remove links to information that is “inadequate, irrelevant .... or excessive” from search results on a person’s name.
Subject can apply to have links in search results that point to specific information removed from the results
Not just Google – all search engines with an EU presence
Only applies to searches conducted in the EU + Norway, Switzerland, Iceland and Lichtenstein
Not automatic – subject has to apply and request will be assessed to see if the information is “inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant, or excessive in relation to the purposes for which they were processed.”
Google’s request form available at https://support.google.com/legal/contact/lr_eudpa?product=websearch# (Bing working on one)
Google now removing results (and also adding back in results) from searches in European country versions of Google
Indicates on the results page if information has been excluded
Google adds removal statement from all results for searches on personal names even if nothing has been removed (name generally has to be within double quotes in the search for this to happen)
Use non-European Google to see all results e.g. Google.com, Google.ca - but will see country biased results
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Removal now started
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Other Google changes
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Google menu options change depending on your search
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Google rewrites page titles
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Google's Matt Cutts: Why Google Will Ignore Your Page Title Tag & Write Its Own http://searchengineland.com/googles-matt-cutts-look-title-match-query-190039
Google "Henry VIII wives": Jane Seymour reveals search engine's blind spots http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/09/23/google_henry_viii_wives_jane_seymour_reveals_search_engine_s_blind_spots.html
Change your language to English US under account settings
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Facebook Graph Search
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Pay for your message to go into recipients main Inbox
Research literature
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Google Scholar
http://scholar.google.com/
“Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research”.
• Search all scholarly literature from one convenient place
• Explore related works, citations, authors, and publications
• Locate the complete document through your library or on the web
• Keep up with recent developments in any area of research
• Check who's citing your publications, create a public author profile
Date and author search looks in the area of the document where those elements are usually found
Page numbers, part of an address, data item may be mistaken for publication year
Sometimes gets the author wrong
Is MA Lib really the author?
Google Scholar for systematic reviews?
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making | Full text | Is the coverage of google scholar enough to be used alone for systematic reviews http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6947/13/7
No, Google Scholar Shouldn’t be Used Alone for Systematic Review Searching | Laika's MedLibLog http://laikaspoetnik.wordpress.com/2013/07/09/no-google-scholar-shouldnt-be-used-alone-for-systematic-review-searching/
BMC Medical Research Methodology | Full text | Google Scholar as replacement for systematic literature searches: good relative recall and precision are not enough
Use advanced search screen or commands as follows:
+ sign before a search term to force an exact match, for example +norne
“....” around phrases for example “environmental remediation” intitle: to search for a single word in the title, for example intitle:zeolites environmental remediation allintitle: to search for all of your terms in the title, for example allintitle:zeolites environmental remediation author: to search on an author’s name, for example zeolites environmental remediation author:rhodes site: to limit your search to specific institution for example marcellus shale site:psu.edu Commands can be combined for a precise search, for example author:wolford site:psu.edu allintitle:marcellus shale
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Microsoft Academic Search
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/
Journal articles, pre-prints, post-prints, conference proceedings, reports and white papers
Free to use but the full text of some papers can only be viewed on payment of a fee to the original journal publisher
Author may have several different profiles and articles may be assigned to wrong author
A selection can be found at http://www.rba.co.uk/search/links.shtml#research
ArXiv http://arxiv.org/
BioMed Central http://www.biomedcentral.com/
Chemistry Central http://www.chemistrycentral.com/
ChemSpider http://www.chemspider.com/
Deep Web TechnologiesMednar http://mednar.com/Science.gov http://www.science.gov/Science Research http://scienceresearch.com/WorldWideScience http://worldwidescience.org/
Public Library Initiative by PLS and ProQuest | Access to Research http://www.accesstoresearch.org.uk/List of participating libraries and publishers
Public Library Initiative by PLS and ProQuest | Access To Research http://freetoviewjournals.pls.org.uk/
Search tool for the journals and articles covered by the agreement.
List of journals covered by the agreement
Not only open access but also subscription journals/articles
Database can be searched and summaries displayed from anywhere but articles can only be viewed and printed off on library premises
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Government and Official Websites
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Searching government sites
Departmental websites moving to www.gov.uk – older material supposed to be archived
Aimed more at the general public rather than the serious researcher
Navigation can be poor
Internal search options can be poor
Use Google and its advanced commands to search a site– site:
– filetype:
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UK Government Web Archive | The National Archives http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/webarchive/
Browse by category or choose your organisation from an A-Z listChoose the date of the archived version of the website you want to view [Can be difficult to search]
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UK Government Web Archive | The National Archives http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/webarchive/
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Wayback Machine http://www.archive.org/
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UK Web Archive http://www.webarchive.org.uk/ukwa/
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Digital Education Resource Archive (DERA) http://dera.ioe.ac.uk/
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http://www.legislation.gov.uk/
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UK Parliament http://www.parliament.uk/
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Monitoring progress of legislationhttp://services.parliament.uk/bills/2013-14/pensions.html
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Statistics and open data
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Official statistics and open data
UK National Statistics Publication Hub– http://www.statistics.gov.uk/
Office for National Statistics– http://www.ons.gov.uk/
data.gov.uk – http://data.gov.uk/
Welsh Government | Statistics– http://wales.gov.uk/statistics-and-research/
StatsWales– http://statswales.wales.gov.uk/
Eurostat http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/
European Union - Open Data Portal – http://open-data.europa.eu/open-data/
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Tony Hirst OUseful.Info, the blog... Trying to find useful things to do with emerging technologies in open education http://blog.ouseful.info/
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Chart and image gallery: 30+ free tools for data visualization and analysis - Computerworld http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9214755/Chart_and_image_gallery_30_free_tools_for_data_visualization_and_analysis
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http://www.offstats.auckland.ac.nz/
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Google Public Data Explorer
http://www.google.com/publicdata/One of Google's best kept secrets!
Public data sets made available by Eurostat, World Bank, IMF, CSO Ireland, OECD, ITU, some national statistics offices (but not ONS), and many more.
Source and date updated given.
Charts and charting options can highlight oddities and missing data
Look at the charts to see if there is a sudden change in the trends.
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Google Public Data Explorer Minimum Wage – something is missing
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Some countries are missing e.g. Germany because they don’t have a minimum wage
Datamarket http://datamarket.com/
Open portal to datasets worldwide and market research
Creates visualisations of the data
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Guardian Data Store http://www.guardian.co.uk/data
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Data and analysis on topics that are in the newsSome data sets created from information obtained via FoILinks to the original datasets are provided
Migrants crossing the Mediterranean: key numbers http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2014/jun/10/migrants-crossing-the-mediterranean-key-numbers-libya-european#start-of-comments
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Correlation does not mean causation
Per capita consumption of mozzarella cheese (US) correlates with Civil engineering doctorates awarded (US) http://tylervigen.com/view_correlation?id=3890
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And not forgetting social media.....
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Keeping up to date
Inside Search http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/
Official Google Blog http://googleblog.blogspot.com/