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Google is not the only search tool

ARLG – ISG

Wednesday, 9th July 2014, CILIP, LondonPresenter: Karen Blakeman

[email protected], www.rba.co.ukwww.twitter.com/karenblakeman

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All change!

Search engines - new algorithms, ranking and display,

personalisation

EU ruling on “right to be forgotten”, how much is being

censored/removed?

Free government and legal resources, official data and

statistics, open data

Social media


Things you need to know about Google search

Google personalises your search

Personalises search based on– location

– device that you are using

– past search history

– past browsing activity

– activity in other areas of Google e.g. YouTube, blogs, images


Private browsing - quickest way “un-personalise”search

Chrome - New Incognito window Ctrl+Shift+N

FireFox Ctrl+Shift+P

Internet Explorer Ctrl+Shift+P

Opera Ctrl+Shift+N

Will not remove country/location personalisation

Not search engine specific, built into the browser


Google automatically looks for variations on your search terms and sometimes drops terms from your search

– Google may or may not tell you that it has ignored some of your terms

– “..” around terms, phrases, names, titles of documents does not always work

– To force an exact match and inclusion of a term prefix it with ‘intext:’

public transport intext:algal biofuels

– Use Verbatim for an exact match search

Google Verbatim

Google now showing missing search terms?

Not always shown – possibly still a live experiment?



Google web search does not search everything it has in its database

– two indexes: main, default index and the supplemental index

– supplemental index may contain less popular, unusual, specialist material

– supplemental index comes into play when Google thinks your search has returned too few results

– Verbatim and some advanced search commands seems to trigger a search in the supplemental index


Google changes its algorithms several hundred times a year How Google makes improvements to its search algorithm -

YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5RZOU6vK4Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5RZOU6vK4Q


We are all Google’s lab rats

Just Testing: Google Users May See Up To A

Dozen Experiments

http://searchengineland.com/just-testing-google-searchers-may-see-up-to-a-dozen-experiments-141570

Mostly minor effects on search but sometimes

totally bizarre results




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.


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


EU - so called “right to be forgotten” ruling


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.

http://hemeroteca.lavanguardia.com/preview/1998/01/19/pagina-23/33842001/pdf.html



Information is NOT removed from the web

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)


https://support.google.com/legal/contact/lr_eudpa?product=websearch

https://support.google.com/legal/contact/lr_eudpa?product=websearch

How to get around it?

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


Removal now started


Other Google changes


Google menu options change depending on your search


Google rewrites page titles


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

http://searchengineland.com/googles-matt-cutts-look-title-match-query-190039

http://searchengineland.com/googles-matt-cutts-look-title-match-query-190039

Bing does it as well


http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2352871/How-Bing-Chooses-Your-Webpage-Titles



Google – right hand column


http://googlesystem.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/google-knowledge-graph-gets-confused.html




Google Knowledge Graph and carousel


Google gets it wrong again


Logo in knowledge graph links to....


Google gets it wrong yet again!


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

Image courtesy of Will Oremus

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/09/23/google_henry_viii_wives_jane_seymour_reveals_search_engine_s_blind_spots.html

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/09/23/google_henry_viii_wives_jane_seymour_reveals_search_engine_s_blind_spots.html

Nutrition facts


Information from Wikipedia and USDA

Compare

compare spinach with cabbage


Do not always need ‘with’Can only compare two similar entities

Compare


Search commands that are still around

PDF for legislation, consultation documents, research documents, government reports, industry papers

ppt or pptx for presentations, tracking down an expert on a topic

xls or xlsx for spreadsheets containing data

Use the advanced search screen or the filetype: command "control of dogs (wales) bill" filetype:pdf

organ donation wales opt out filetype:ppt

organ donation wales opt out filetype:pptx

organ donation wales filetype:xls

organ donation wales filetype:xlsx

Combine with site command organ donation filetype:xls site:nhs.uk


Search commands that are still around (2)

site: to search within a site or type of site

housing regeneration swansea site:wales.gov.ukhousing regeneration swansea site:gov.uk

Also site:ac.uk site:nhs.uk

Can exclude sites using –site:

housing regeneration swansea site:gov.uk -site:wales.gov.uk

organ donation statistics wales -site:au

Does NOT search inside databases or protected areas


Date

Restrict your results to information that has been published within the last hour, day, week, month, year or your own date range

Search tools, Any time and select an option


Bing/Yahoo

Yahoo now uses Bing’s database, commands and ranking algorithmsYahoo Finance still available

No advanced search screen on Bing - use commands

List at Advanced Operator Reference http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff795620.aspx

filetype: site:

AND, NOT, OR parentheses for complex Boolean searches

NEAR:n where n is a number, specifies that the terms must be within that number of words of each other and in any order-banana NEAR:3 toffee

Date option only for US version


http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff795620.aspx

Bing http://www.bing.com/

Results seem to be more consumer/retail focused– more ‘shopping’ than research

– results improve as soon as you start using the advanced search commands

Sometimes more up to date than Google– updates sites more frequently

– adds new sites more quickly

– useful if you are looking for information on a new company or organisation

BUT interesting features and options available to US users only– changing location and version of Bing does not always work

– using anonymous proxy does not always work


http://www.bing.com/

bingiton.com


Bingiton


DuckDuckGo – http://duckduckgo.com/

Does not track, does not personalise, no EU presence so no

“right to be forgotten”

Results are a compilation of about 50 sources including

Wikipedia, Wolfram Alpha, Bing, Blekko and its own Web crawler

DuckDuckBot. “In partnership with Yandex”

Advanced search DuckDuckGo Syntax

http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/300304

DuckDuckGo – silly name but a neat little search tool

http://www.rba.co.uk/wordpress/2011/11/07/duckduckgo-silly-name-but-a-neat-little-search-tool/


http://duckduckgo.com/

http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/300304



Millionshort http://millionshort.com

Million Short: unearthing information hidden in the dungeons of Google’s results

– http://www.rba.co.uk/wordpress/2012/10/04/million-short-unearthing-stuff-hidden-in-the-dungeons-of-googles-results/

Uses Bing API plus other sources

Great for finding specialist articles that Google buries beyond reach

Removes top 10k sites from results - can change to top million, 100k, 1k, 100

Can add sites back in, can block sites

Can “Boost!” sites so that they always appear at the top

Can use site: and filetype: commands

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http://millionshort.com/

http://www.rba.co.uk/wordpress/2012/10/04/million-short-unearthing-stuff-hidden-in-the-dungeons-of-googles-results/

http://www.rba.co.uk/wordpress/2012/10/04/million-short-unearthing-stuff-hidden-in-the-dungeons-of-googles-results/

Million Short


Yandex http://www.yandex.com/

– for filetype use mime:

diabetic retinopathy mime:pptx

– has an advanced search screen at http://yandex.com/search/advanced

Blekko http://www.blekko.com/

Ask http://www.ask.com/

Teoma http://www.teoma.com/

– all three support filetype: and site:


http://www.yandex.com/

http://yandex.com/search/advanced

http://www.blekko.com/

http://www.ask.com/

http://www.teoma.com/

eTools.ch


Carrotsearch http://carrotsearch.com/


http://carrotsearch.com/

Carrotsearch circles


Carrotsearch FoamTree


Qwant http://www.qwant.com/ Media


http://www.qwant.com/

Qwant http://www.qwant.com/ People


http://www.qwant.com/

WolframAlpha

http://www.wolframalpha.com/

Computational knowledge engine, curated data

Click Examples, Random, or an image in the homepage background to get an idea of what it covers


http://www.wolframalpha.com/

WolframAlpha


Facebook Graph Search

Change your language to English US under account settings


Facebook Graph Search


Pay for your message to go into recipients main Inbox

Research literature


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


http://scholar.google.com/

Google Scholar

Does not cover all key journals in all subjects – no source list, but getting better

Top publications for subjects and languages under Metrics link on home page or http://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?view_op=top_venues&hl=en

Scholar indexes the full text but you may have to pay to view the whole article

Groups different versions of an article together


http://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?view_op=top_venues&hl=en

Google Scholar


Does NOT use the publishers’ metadata

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

http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2288/13/131



http://laikaspoetnik.wordpress.com/2013/07/09/no-google-scholar-shouldnt-be-used-alone-for-systematic-review-searching/

http://laikaspoetnik.wordpress.com/2013/07/09/no-google-scholar-shouldnt-be-used-alone-for-systematic-review-searching/


Google Scholar advanced search commands

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


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

Sometimes very slow to load


http://academic.research.microsoft.com/

Jeffrey Beall

List of Predatory Publishers 2014 | Scholarly Open Access http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/list-of-predatory-publishers-2014/


http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/list-of-predatory-publishers-2014/

http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/list-of-predatory-publishers-2014/

Institutional repositories and open access

BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine http://www.base-search.net/

CORE (COnnecting Repositories) http://core.kmi.open.ac.uk/search

DART-Europe E-theses Portal http://www.dart-europe.eu/basic-search.php

DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals http://www.doaj.org/doaj

Institutional Repository Search (IRS) http://irs.mimas.ac.uk/

Open DOAR http://opendoar.org/

RIAN - Pathways to Irish Research http://rian.ie

ROAR - Registry of Open Access Repositories http://roar.eprints.org/

OpenAIRE http://www.openaire.eu/


http://www.base-search.net/

http://core.kmi.open.ac.uk/search

http://www.dart-europe.eu/basic-search.php

http://www.doaj.org/doaj

http://irs.mimas.ac.uk/

http://opendoar.org/

http://rian.ie/

http://roar.eprints.org/

http://www.openaire.eu/

Specialist search tools for research information

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/


http://www.rba.co.uk/search/links.shtml

http://arxiv.org/

http://www.biomedcentral.com/

http://www.chemistrycentral.com/

http://www.chemspider.com/

http://mednar.com/

http://www.science.gov/

http://scienceresearch.com/

http://worldwidescience.org/

Specialist search tools for research information

Europe PubMed Central http://europepmc.org/

Mendeley http://www.mendeley.com/

Open Biology http://rsob.royalsocietypublishing.org/

PhilPapers: Online Research in Philosophy http://philpapers.org/

PubMed Central http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/

SSRN (Social Science Research Network) http://www.ssrn.com/en/

TechXtra http://www.techxtra.ac.uk/


http://europepmc.org/

http://www.mendeley.com/

http://rsob.royalsocietypublishing.org/

http://philpapers.org/

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/

http://www.ssrn.com/en/

http://www.techxtra.ac.uk/

BBC News - Public libraries get online access to research journals http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-25981183


For personal research, non-commercial use.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-25981183

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


Government and Official Websites


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:


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]


UK Government Web Archive | The National Archives http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/webarchive/


Wayback Machine http://www.archive.org/


UK Web Archive http://www.webarchive.org.uk/ukwa/


Digital Education Resource Archive (DERA) http://dera.ioe.ac.uk/


http://www.legislation.gov.uk/


UK Parliament http://www.parliament.uk/


Monitoring progress of legislationhttp://services.parliament.uk/bills/2013-14/pensions.html


Statistics and open data


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/


Tony Hirst OUseful.Info, the blog... Trying to find useful things to do with emerging technologies in open education http://blog.ouseful.info/


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


http://www.offstats.auckland.ac.nz/


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.


Google Public Data Explorer Minimum Wage – something is missing


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


Guardian Data Store http://www.guardian.co.uk/data


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


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


And not forgetting social media.....


Keeping up to date

Inside Search http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/

Official Google Blog http://googleblog.blogspot.com/

SearchReSearch : http://searchresearch1.blogspot.co.uk/

Search Engine Land http://searchengineland.com/

Search Engine Watch http://searchenginewatch.com/

Search Engine Roundtable http://www.seroundtable.com/

Karen Blakeman’s Blog http://www.rba.co.uk/wordpress/

Phil Bradley's weblog http://philbradley.typepad.com/


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