Super Searcher Course Outline
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Course Outline
Welcome, Introductions and review of handouts. (5 Min.)
Pretest 
(5 Min.)
Discussion of tools that are currently used (10 Min.)
What specialized tools do you use? How did you find them? Where would you look for a new tool?
Yahoo's list of search engines (10 Min.)
Five types of Recommended Search Tools
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html
Discussion and review of evaluation sites (30 Min.)
http://searchengineshowdown.com/
http://www.searchenginewatch.com/
http://www.searchenginewatch.com/facts/ataglance.html
http://www.pandia.com
http://www.infopeople.org/search/chart.html
Keeping up with the new features
http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Searching/Mailing_Lists/
Blogs/rss feeds that are either totally or partially dedicated to search technologies.
http://cical.blogspot.com/http://www.google.com/googleblog/
http://google.blogspace.com/
http://www.llrx.com/
http://www.researchbuzz.org/
http://www.resourceshelf.com/
http://www.searchenginelowdown.com/
http://searchenginewatch.com/
http://www.workingfaster.com/sitelines/
Break (15 Min.)
Student exercises 1
Students will review three of the following sites: (40 Min.)
Consider the following questions as you review three sites.
Exercise worksheet
Select one site from each group below to review.
Group A
- http://clusty.com/
- http://www.surfwax.com/
- http://www.alltheweb.com/
- http://GigaBlast.com/
- http://boolistic.com/
Group B
- http://www.faganfinder.com/engines.html
- http://www.icerocket.com/ Icerocket.com
- http://www.topichunter.com/ Topic Hunter
- http://beta.exalead.com/search Exalead
- http://www.clush.com/ Clush
- http://www.kartoo.com/
Group C
- http://www.mooter.com/moot Mooter
- http://www.kwmap.net/ KwMap
- http://www.jux2.com/ jux2
- http://ranking.thumbshots.com/ thumbshots
- http://memoory.com/ memoory
- http://www.webbrain.com/html/default_win.html
Review and hands-on exercises - Advanced search features in general Internet search engines (30 Min.)
All about Google (40 Min.)
http://www.google.com/advanced_search - formats search with format as HTML demo
PageRank Explained and a more fun version http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html
http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html
http://www.google.com/unclesam
http://www.google.com/alertsGoogle Alert
https://www.google.com/searchhistory/help.html Search History
http://mobile.google.com/local
http://scholar.google.com/ Scholar
http://books.google.com/ Books
http://www.google.com/coop/cse/ Google Custom
http://www.googlefight.com/ Google Fight
Does Google have a darkside? Check http://www.google-watch.org/
Metasearch and Specialized Search
Advanced search features
http://www.dogpile.com - streaming media and local search
http://www.altavista.com - NEAR and searching in HTML tags
http://web.altavista.com/web/adv
Special searching discussion:
Power searching with customized settings saved using cookies.
Looking for current information and news
News
Blogs & RSS
http://www.feedster.com/ (Dead Link: 8/15/08)
http://www.daypop.com/ Daypop (Dead Link: 8/15/08)
Podcasts
- Podcasting News Search-this is my favorite. You can browse categories and enter a search for topics you are interested in. This is a site I recommend. The site also includes lists of New Podcasts, Top 25 Podcasts, Highest Recommended Podcasts, and other
- Podcast Alley - this is another site where you can browse by category and search for podcasts.
- PodcastDirectory.com
- Yahoo Podcast Search (Beta)
- Podscope - this is relatively new and searches the content of poscasts. It is a Beta version so I am sure improvements are on the way. Seems to work best with simple and broad search terms. Keep checking back for improvements.
Searching the past???
The Way Back Machine Advanced Search page and http://recall.archive.org/
Quality Filtering
Review as a quality filter. What are the pros and cons of this approach?
http://dmoz.org/ The sites are reviewed by others on the web
http://www.rdn.ac.uk/bth/ (Dead link: 8/15/08)
Specialized search tools (20 min.)
Guides to Specialized Search Engines
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/InvisibleWeb.html
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/BeyondWeb.html (Dead link; original not found 8/18/08)
http://www.invisible-web.net/ (Website being "refurbished." 8/15/08)
Beyond text searching (20 min.)
What do we need to search other media? Is text best?
Why?
The future of searching discussion (10 min.)
The Semantic Web
http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,58497,00.html
Nutch http://www.nutch.org/docs/en/ Open Source searching for you!
What others are searching
New
http://www.zoominfo.com/
Zoominfo
NPR
archive
http://www.oyez.org/oyez/frontpage
- contains more than TWO THOUSAND hours of Supreme Court audio,
including every audio the Court has recorded since 1995.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/portals.html
Portals to the World contains selective links providing
authoritative, in-depth information about the nations and other
areas of the world. http://yp.a9.com/-/company/YellowPages.jspCurrent
List of Cities Having Block View Images
Wrap up - posttest , CE evaluations and distribute certificates (if available) (10 Min.)
This course has been approved for 4 hours of Medical Library Association Continuing Education Units.
