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Super Searcher Secrets

Mary Ellen BatesOctober 21, 2019BatesInfo.com

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Tweeting this?

#InternetLibrarian

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Slides at: BatesInfo.com

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Start with a clear focus

What’s the purpose of this project?

Who’s going to see the results?

What will the answer look like?

What do I need to find/do first?

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Don’t get complex

Too many terms = lower results

Don’t use long OR statements

Graze, don’t just dig deep

Trust

Learn to love relevance ranking

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Relevance? What relevance?

"Zero-click results" changes everything.

Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant give one answer

Google's Featured Snippets provide "authoritative"

answer

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is.gd/Wt8wml

Might not click further

Might not click further

Do not click further

Do not click further

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Stay focused

Separate essential from tangential

Know when to say “when”

Spend 25% of time post-processing (fight IAOTWFF)

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Make the answer clear

What countries have the largest number of respiratory therapy training programs?

According to our analysis, the countries outside the US with the most respiratory therapy training programs are, in descending order: […]

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Detailed Research Results

It appears that the United States is unlike any other country when it comes to accredited training programs for respiratory therapists. While the US has 443 respiratory care professional practice programs (according to the 2018 CoARC Report on Accreditation in Respiratory Care Education), very few countries have a dedicated professional role for respiratory health. Instead, according to an […]

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Embrace Google’s brain

Google monitors your searches

Feature AND bug

Expands search to find related info

Filters search to limit the parameters

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…and go private

Log out of your browser

And turn on Incognito/Private mode

Use a VPN to leave the country

Then use country-specific Google

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…and go really private

Duckduckgo.com, StartPage.com

I tested 4 other private search engines (h/t marcyphelps.com)

Searched neonicotinoids

Compared first 10 results to Google

All had good, relevant results

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Private search engines

Qwant.com

Based in France, own search index

Filters for news, social, images, video, “freshness”

6 of first 10 results not in Google

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Private search engines

Yippy.com

Survivor of the former Clusty, Vivisimo

Clustering of search results (can even “remix”!)

Useful for ambiguous questions

7 of first 10 results not in Google

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Private search engines

Mojeek.com

Based in UK, own web index

You can set your location (or “none”)

7 of 10 results not in Google results

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Private search engines

Gibiru.com

“Uncensored Anonymous Search”

90% overlap with Google results

Uncensored surfaces the weird (0% overlap with

Google results)

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Using Google as a hack

Can’t find something in a web site?

Google it with site:

May find unindexed page

May find archived copy

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Bing conducts ref interviews!

Scroll through results page to find 3 suggestion boxes

Useful to discern aspects, facets

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Go deep, go grey

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Remember deep web content

Databases

Images, charts, video, audio

Dynamic content

Content over 10 years old

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Remember grey literature

Publications not produced by commercial publishers

University dissertations, preprints

Research institute reports, clinical trials

Think tank policy papers, reports

Government & NGO working papers, data, studies

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Remember grey literature

Association reports, newsletters

Conference proceedings

For-profit white papers, manuals

Slidedecks

Etc….

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Why dark web / grey lit content?

More current than published content

Outliers, perspectives not covered in traditional media

Niche focus not well covered elsewhere

Helps fight IAOTWFF

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Going beyond the web

Use fee-based services’ “Source type” to ID grey lit

Not comprehensive but useful

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Clients won’t ask for grey lit/deep web content

Your clients only ask you to do what they think you can do

Use the ref interview to expand their vision of an info pro

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Finding experts and insights

ID relevant conferences through general search

Then search conference page for papers, slides, etc.

Try archive.org for prior years

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Talk to people!

Can’t find the answer? Ask!

NOT the “Contact us” mystery box

You’re a researcher, not a stalker

LinkedIn, SlideShare, personal web pages, lit search

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Talk to people!

Find a librarian to talk to

LinkedIn advanced people search

Industry = Libraries (yeah, go figure)

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What about privacy?

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If it’s free, then you’re the product being sold.

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Teach info hygiene to clients

Who cares about this?

Look for info “containers”, not for the answer itself

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Teach info hygiene

“You settled for that?!?”

See page 2 of search results…

Fight confirmation bias

Dare to compare

When quick ‘n’ dirty isn’t good enough

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Teach info hygiene

Low-quality data = low-quality results

Teach users to evaluate data sets

Source, coverage, timeliness, accuracy, consistency,

relevance

Curate data sets for your org

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Teach info hygiene

Know your clients’ info habits

Offer better info alternatives

Put their favorites in context

Know the pros AND cons of social media platforms

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Be curious!

Move outside your research comfort zone

Ask patrons/clients what they wish the library could do for them

Change one thing every six months

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Slides at BatesInfo.com

[email protected]

Twitter: @mebs

LinkedIn: maryellenbates

Facebook: maryellenbates

BatesInfo.com

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