Googlewhacking & Hacking Presentation

by Meg @+H2O-Singer

This presentation was delivered at the Indiana Library Federation's Annual Conference on April 12, 2006. The PowerPoint slide show can be found here.

Googlewhacking

Exercise goals reinforce the performance indicators and outcomes of ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education, Standards 2.2, 3.7, 5.1:

  1. Keyword Searching
  2. Phrase Searching
  3. Limiting Options
  4. Relevancy Ranking
  5. Sorting Options
  6. Visible vs. Invisible Web
  7. Free vs. Fee-based Information

ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education can be found at: http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlstandards/informationliteracycompetency.htm.

Google Books

Band, J. (2006). The Google Library Project: Both Sides of the Story. Plagiary: Cross-Disciplinary Studies in Plagiarism, Fabrication, and Falsification, 1 (2): 1-17. Retrieved March 13, 2006, from http://www.plagiary.org/Google-Library-Project.pdf

Google.com. (2005). Google Book Search. Retrieved March 13, 2006, from http://books.google.com/googlebooks/vision.html

Jacobs, J. (2006). Thoughts on Google book search. diglet. Retrieved March 13, 2006, from http://gort.ucsd.edu/mtdocs/archives/diglet/007170.html

Google Scholar

Meltzer, E. (2005). UC Libraries Use of Google Scholar. Retrieved March 15, 2006, from http://www.cdlib.org/inside/assess/evaluation_activities/docs/2005/googleScholar_summary_0805.pdf

Myhill, M. (2005). Google Scholar. The Charleston Advisor, 6, (4). Retrieved March 15, 2006, from http://www.charlestonco.com/review.cfm?id=225

Miscellaneous

Arnold, S. (2005). Relevance and the End of Objective Hits. Online, 29 (5): 16-21. Retrieved March 21, 2006, from Academic Search Premier, an Ebsco database.

Calishain, T & Dornfest, R. (2003). Google Hacks: 100 Industrial Strength Tips and Tricks. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly.

Google Bomb. (2006). Retrieved March 20, 2006, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Bomb

Google Hack. (2006). Retrieved March 20, 2006, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Hacks

Google Milestones. (2006). Retrieved March 20, 2006, from http://www.google.com/corporate/history.html

Google Zeitgeist. (2006). Retrieved March 20, 2006, from http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/zeitgeist.html

How Does Google Determine Which Web Sites Are the Most "Trusted"? (2006). Google's Newsletter for Librarians. Retrieved March 20, 2006, from http://www.google.com/newsletter/librarian/librarian_2006_01/article3.html

LibraryLookUp - create your own bookmarklet for use in Amazon.com, bn.com, etc. http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/stories/2002/12/11/librarylookup.html

'Miserable failure' links to Bush. (2003). BBC News. Retrieved March 20, 2006, from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3298443.stm


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