USING GOOGLE USING GOOGLE - WORKSHOP WORKSHOP Anthony John Rostron BSc. (hons) Anthony John Rostron BSc. (hons)
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Before we begin you must find the following
information:
Record how long it takes.
You have a maximum of five minutes.
What did Nikola Tesla die of?
What is the solubility of aspirin in water in
mg/ml?
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Have you ever searched for information
on nurses in Asia or anything similar?
Were the links relevant?
Did you get a lot of pornography or
irrelevant sites?
We’ll learn how to search properly later.
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Search is simple: just type whatever comes
to mind in the search box, hit Enter or click
the Search button, and Google will search
the web for content that's relevant to your
search.
Really it’s a little more complex than that.
It’s also a lot more versatile and powerful.
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We are going to learn to search partly
by experiment.
And by discussing our results together.
But I’ll also teach you some of the more
useful functions of GOOGLE first.
And get you started with the possibilities
of the search engines and tools.
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But before we start learning to search
using GOOGLE . . .
We shall look at what else GOOGLE
can do.
This may be a revelation to you!
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During this class you will learn what
else GOOGLE can do and how to make
effective advanced searches.
Type in the address of GOOGLE now in
your browser.www.google.es
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What else can GOOGLE do?
Mathematics:
16/25
4th root of 6
Money:
30 USD in EUR
100 EUR in GBP
Units:
25 lbs in kg
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What else can GOOGLE do?
Time: TIME new york
Time Tokyo
Dictionary:DEFINE tinnitus
DEFINE cardiopathy
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Answer questions for example:
Hamlet was written in *
Nikola Tesla died of *
solubility of aspirin in water is * mg/ml
Give us a weather forecast.
WEATHER Vigo Spain
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Suppose we had a Roman numeral as a
date.
Could GOOGLE convert this
MCMLXXXIX?
How would you do it?
MCMLXXXIX in decimal
What date is it?
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If GOOGLE can do the last
conversion we should ask:
What else can it do?
What operators and conversions are
available?
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Operator Function Example
+ Addition15.99 + 32.50
+ 13.25
– Subtraction 79 – 18 – 19
* Multiplication 2 * 3 * 7
/ Division 378 / 9
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Operator Function Example
^ or **
Exponentiation
(raise to a power
of)
4^10 or 4**10
% of Percent 15% of 93.45
mod or %
modulo (the
remainder after
division)
15 mod 9 or
15 % 9
the nth root ofcalculates the nth
root
4th root of 16
cube root of 109
square root of 42
or sqrt(42)
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Operator Function Example
sin, cos, tan, sec,
csc, cot, etc.
Trigonometric
functions
(arguments are
assumed to be in
radians)
cos(pi/6)
cosine(pi/6)
arcsin, arccos,
arctan, arccsc, etc.
Inverse
trigonometric
functions
arccos(.5)
sinh, cosh, tanh,
csch, arsinh,
arccsch, etc.
Hyperbolic
functions cosh(6)
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Operator Function Example
ln Logarithm base e ln(16)
log Logarithm base 10 log(16)
lg Logarithm base 2 lg(16)
exp Exponential function exp(16)
! Factorial 5!
Choose
(binomial coeficient)
x choose y
calculates the
number of ways of
choosing a set of y
elements from a set
of x distinct
elements
5 choose 3
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Name and description Example
base of the natural system
of logarithmse
pi, the ratio of the
circumference to the
diameter of a circle
pi/6
imaginary number, i, which
represents one of the two
square roots of -1
i^2
Euler’s constant, gamma e^gamma
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Currency Australian Dollars (AUD), British pounds
(GBP), Euros, US Dollars (USD)
Masskilogram or kg, grams or g, grains, pounds
or lbs, carats, stones, tons, tonnes
Lengthmeters or m, miles, feet, Angstroms, cubits,
furlongs
Volume gallons, liters or l, bushels, teaspoons, pints
Area square kilometers, acres, hectares
Timedays, seconds or s, centuries, sidereal
years, fortnights
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Electricity volts, amps, ohms, henrys
EnergyCalories, British thermal units (BTU),
joules, ergs, foot-pounds
Power watt, kilowatts, horsepower or hp
Information bits, bytes, kbytes, etc.
Quantitydozen, baker’s dozen, percent, gross,
great gross, score, googol
Numbering systems
decimal, hexadecimal or hex, octal, binary,
roman numerals, etc. Prefix hexadecimal
numbers with 0x, octal numbers with 0o
and binary numbers with 0b. For example:
0×7f + 0b10010101.
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Long Name Shorthand Notation .
atomic mass units amu amu or atomic mass unit
Astronomical Unit au au or astronomical unit
Avogadro’s numberN_A or Avogadro’s
number
Boltzmann constant k k or Boltzmann constant
electric constant,
permittivity of free spaceepsilon_0
electron mass m_e or electron mass
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electron volt eV eV or electron volt
elementary charge elementary charge
Euler’s constant Euler’s constant
Faraday constant Faraday constant
fine-structure constant fine-structure constant
gravitational constant GG or gravitational
constant
magnetic flux quantum magnetic flux quantum
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mass of each planet and of
the sun
m_mars, m_earth ,
m_uranus, …, m_sun
molar gas constant molar gas constant
permeability of free space permeability of free space
Planck’s constant h h or Planck’s constant
proton mass m_p or proton mass
radius of each planet and of
the sunr_earth , r_pluto , …, r_sun
Rydberg constant Rydberg constant
speed of light in a vacuum c c or speed of light
speed of sound in air at sea
levelspeed of sound
Stefan-Boltzmann constant Stefan-Boltzmann constant
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Perform these calculations:
What is
(25*5)/cube root of 90.
What is 25% of 1000?
25% of 1000
What is the remainder of 59 when divided
by 2?
59 mod 2.
59 % 2 or 59% 2 or 59%2
3 90/)525( x
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What is 5 meters multiplied by 2 feet
measured in square inches?
5 metres * 2 feet in square inches.
What is the binary representation of the
number 156?
156 in binary.
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Convert 1 mile to meters.
1 mile in meters
Convert 1 kg (kilogram) to lbs (pounds).
1 kg in lbs
Convert 0 degrees Kelvin to Fahrenheit or Celsius.
0 kelvin in celsius.
0 kelvin in fahrenheit
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Compute the number of minutes in a 365-day year.
365 * 24 * 60.
1 year in minutes
Which is larger pi^e or e^pi? The same relationship holds between x^e and e^x for all non-negative values of x except e. The exponential constant, e, is approximately 2.72 and the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle, pi, is approximately 3.14
e^pi-pi^e
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Compute the probability of your winning the
lottery if you buy 1,000 tickets each bearing
five distinct independently randomly chosen
integers between 1 and 99.
1 - (1 - 1/(99 choose 5))^1000 or approximately
1000/(99 choose 5)
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Every word matters.
Generally, all the words you put in the query
will be used.
Search is always case insensitive.
A search for vigo university is the same
as a search for Vigo University.
Generally, punctuation is ignored, including
@#$%^&*()=+[]\ and other special
characters.
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If you're looking for a particular
company, just enter its name.
If you're looking for a particular concept,
place, or product, start with its name.
If you're looking for a pizza restaurant,
just enter pizza and the name of your
town.
Most queries do not require advanced
operators or unusual syntax.
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Use the words that are most likely to
appear on the page.
Nosebleed (non-technical page)
Epistaxis (medical page)
Describe what you need with as few
terms as possible.
Where can I buy cheap cars?
cheap cars sales.
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Choose descriptive words.
More unique words give better results.
Nurse
Midwife
The word must be the one generally used.
Telephone animal sounds.
Animal ringtones.
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Phrase search ("")
Google will consider the exact words in that
exact order without any change.
Google already uses the order and the fact that
the words are together as a very strong signal.
Quotes are usually unnecessary.
Insisting on phrase search you might be missing
good results accidentally.
"Alexander Bell" will miss the pages that refer
to Alexander G. Bell.
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Search within a specific website (site:)
Specify that your search results must come from
a given website.
haemolysis site:medline.com
only from medline - you do not need to
write WWW.
haemolysis site:org
only from governmental and official sites.
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Operators
AND (Both terms must be present)
Child AND healthcare.
By default AND is added between words.
It is therefore not necessary to use
+ (Term must be present)
Forces GOOGLE to use the exact word and not a
synonym.
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OR (Either term must be present)
Must be in capital letters.
Haemolysis OR hemolysis
NOT (Term must not be present)
NOT com NOT sexy NOT girls
- (Term must not be present)
-com -sexy –girls
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* (Wildcard)
Lets GOOGLE fill in the missing terms.
+phenyl* +dose +intravenous +mortality
Returns all articles with a phenyl- compound related to injected doses and mortality. (276,000 results).
+phenyl* +dose -intravenous +mortality
Returns all articles with a phenyl- compound related to mortality and dose without injection (231,000 results).
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Search with GOOGLE and record the
following information:
Number of hits.
Number of sites related to our search
in the first 20 pages.
Number of sites with pornography
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Use the search criteria given in the
following two slides.
At the end we shall discuss our results.
When you have finished try some of
your own criteria and record the results.
Then we shall look at a new concept.
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Nurse Asia
Nurse Asia –porno
Nurse Asia –porno –pornography
Nurse Asia –porno –pornography –girls
Nurse Asia –girls
Nurse Asia –sex
Nurse Asia –sexy
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Nursing Asia
Nursing Asia +org
Nursing Asia +com
Nurse Asia +org
Nurse Asia +com
Asia Nurse +com
Nurse Asia +org OR com
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In summary:-porno does not filter well as pornographic
pages do not declare themselves as such.
-sex removes legitimate scientific pages as the word sex is used in legitimate scientific literature.
-sexy filters well as this is a common search criteria for people looking for pornography.
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+org filters well, but only gives government
sites. The information retrieved was
generally better.
-girls filters well, but may remove some
valid links.
A good filter might be:
nursing asia -sexy –girls +org OR +com.
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Google scholar is an alternative to using MedLine, Trip database or other similar tools.
It is optimized for academic research.
It has some new Keywords for searching.
It can even inform you when new articles are published etc.
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Google Scholar includes
Journal and conference papers
Theses and dissertations
Academic books
Pre-prints
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Google Scholar includes
Abstracts
Technical reports
Other scholarly literature
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Articles published by
Academic publishers
Professional societies
University repositories
Scholarly articles available anywhere across the web
Court opinions and patents.
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Search by author
Author:”fitzgerald et al”
Author:fitzgerald
Search by title
“Individualized pharmaceutical attention in patients with renal insufficiency and antibiotic therapy”
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Search by phrase in titleIntitle:”teacher collins syndrome”
Intitle:cardiopathy OR infarction
+Author:flowers +flowers
Returns all papers, articles and books written by Flowers on the subject of flowers.
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++de knuthmakes sure your results include common words,
letters or numbers that Google's search technology generally ignores.
-Author:-flowers +flowers
Returns all papers, articles and books not written by Flowers on the subject of flowers.
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ORCardiopathy OR “adverse reaction” author:smith
returns results that include either of your search terms written by Smith.
Allintitle Finds Web pages in Google Web search that
only contain all of the keywords in their title. The keyword should follow with no spaces. Inverted commas are not necessary.
Allintile:adverse reaction palivizumab
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Only available in advanced searchesOnly available in advanced searches
Articles published in Articles published in
the BMJ
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Set from the SCHOLAR PREFERENCES menu.Set from the SCHOLAR PREFERENCES menu.
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Filtered by dateFiltered by date
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To export citations we must activate the option
in SCHOLAR PREFERENCES.
Select format
Click
here
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Sometimes it is useful to perform a more detailed Sometimes it is useful to perform a more detailed
search.
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Email Alert.
Allows us to receive email alerts when
new articles are added.
New titles are added several times
per week.
Old titles are rechecked every 3-6
months.
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Email Alert.Email alerts are sent when the new
titles are added, that is, several times a week.
Email alerts are based on the last search criteria used.
At the end of each email there is a link to cancel the email alert.
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How do I know when my works are cited?Search for common spellings of your
name.
Check the results.
Tweak the search criteria.
Click on email alerts and set an alert.
Author:rostron AND polymer
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How do I know when a particular work is cited?Search for the exact name of the paper.
Click on the “cited by” link below the result.
Click on “Select article citing:”
Click on email alerts and set an alert.
“CD8 T-cell selection, function, and death in the primary immune response in vivo”
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First find the exact name of the work.
Click on “Cited by”
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Select “Search within articles citing:
Click on “Create email alert”
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This article is cited 38
times in other articles
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In conclusion:
All Google services use similar protocols.
Most services have a user-friendly
advanced tab with more possibilities.
Google can advise you when things are
published.
It is a good idea to read the Google
manuals from time to time.
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DISCUSSIONDISCUSSION
A friend asks you for advice on searching for
information on diet for their coeliac child.
What would you suggest?
Google Academic may give information that they
would not be able to understand.
They could use a search criteria to enter
government and organizational sites.
Coeliac diet +org OR +gov may be a good place
to start.
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