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PROSecrets known only to librarians

(and now to you)

What is ?

No, seriously:

What is ?

1. A search engine

2. A tech company

3. A verb meaning “to look for on the Internet…with Google.”

All of these are Google services

For the most part, they are free.

The greatest mystery of them all:

HOW DOES IT WORK?

PageRankthe biggest popularity contest in historyFactors:

• Number of pages linking to a result (it counts these as “votes”)

• The relative importance of the linking page (a weighted “vote”)

OUTCOME: more popular web pages appear at the top of

the results

Googlebota nicer name for an Internet spider

• Searching software owned by Google

• Discovers pages by following links (“crawling”)

• Makes an index of the web

Pages must be crawled to be searchable on Google, and they must be linked to other pages

in order to be crawled.

How Google thinks

You write: Dogs cats living together

Google sees:A and B and C and D

AND

OR

Quotation marks tell Google to turn two words into one phrase.

You write: Dogs cats “living together”

Google sees:A and B and CD

Without quotation marks:

With quotation marks:

Title Searching

“Intitle:” lets you search within the titles of web pages

Without title search:

With title search:

Search by file type

“filetype:” lets you search by type of file

(especially useful for tax documents!)

Without file type search:

With file type search:

Tax documents!

Your #1 Google Resource:

the

GOOGLE

GUIDE!http://www.googleguide.com/