Scientific Google Research Workshop

http://sprint.informationswissenschaft.ch/allgemeine-suche/suchdienste/

Alternatives to Google

General interest search engines

Google Hacks

Use foreign languages!

Special interest search engines

Search for secrets!

Keywords e.g.: „not for publication“, „secret“, „not for official use“, „confidential“

Combine secrets with filetypes & companies!

e.g. [„secret“ OR „confidential“ OR „not for publication“ filetype:doc OR filetype:docx OR filetype:pdf site:companyname.com]

Do the security check!

Combine e.g. "password" or "username" with "Filetype:xls" and different company names.

Grey area of Google?

Data Research

Try URL-manipulation!

The form of an URL often shows how a site works,

e.g. [http://dipbt.bundestag.de/doc/btd/18/021/1802130.pdf]

Googleing data ressources

Data ressources on the web

Datenbankinformationssystem (german): http://rzblx10.uni-regensburg.de/dbinfo/fachliste.php?bib_id=hsb)

Hugh collection of databases: www.completeplanet.com

Open Knowledge Foundation: http://datahub.io

A databases-database: http://datacatalogs.org

Datafiles: [filetype:xls] or [filetype:csv]

Databases: [filetype:mdb] or [filetype:sql] or

[filetype:db]

Direct download: [inurl:download filetype:xls]

Geo data: [filetype:shp]

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Other Google Engines

Open Data

Data search engines

Data, where are thou?

Foto: Poipoi/Wikimedia

Google hides most of its services under:

www.google.com/about/products

Googles Datendienst:

http://www.google.com/publicdata/directory

Question&answer-Site: http://getthedata.org

Wayback-machine: https://archive.org/

National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting:

http://www.nicar.org

Overview: http://www.data.gov/opendatasites

National services:

USA: http://www.data.gov

GB: http://data.gov.uk/

Germany: https://www.govdata.de/‎

Organisations:

World Bank: http://data.worldbank.org

EU: http://open-data.europa.eu/en/data/

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Youtube

2nd most used search engine

Google News

Google Image Search

special operators

(sources, time period, relevance)

Advanced search strategies

special operators

(size, colors, copyright, family filter etc.)

Thank you for your attention!

Google Books

Handmade Operators

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Prof. Dr. Hektor Haarkoetter

Google Public Data Explorer

Google Artproject

• Filtering results
• diminish number or results

• special operators (e.g. "author")
• full copy download with add-ons

Boolean operators: and, or, not

Google Scholar

London -hotels

Advanced hints:

Order of keywords:

saving money ≠ money saving

Keyword stuffing:

earnings

Italy OR Spain

senators earnings ≠

senators earnings earnings earnings earnings earnings earnings

Never ask

Google

a question!

Angela +Merkel (?)

www.google.com/advanced_search

"Wolfgang Blau"

Google Trends

*animals

2012..2014

@medienhektor

Hochschule für Medien, Kommunikation und Wirtschaft (HMKW)

Höninger Weg 139

50969 Köln/Cologne

hektor@haarkoetter.de

facebook.com/hektor.haarkoetter

@medienhektor

www.kunstderrecherche.de

• Powerful data-database
• Interface to Google Fusion

#CharlieHebdo

basic filter operations

• more than 200 museums recorded with Google Streetview technique
• more charity-projects under www.google.org

• special operators (pdf, author)
• Citation service
• user profiling

• Overview about Google search terms worldwide
• Special operators (regional interest, categories)

Semantic search

Weather: e.g. [weather Zürich]

Google Operators

Combine & save search terms

filetype:pdf

Combine up to 32 search terms

site:guardian.co.uk

inurl:sport

Search terms = keywords + operators

Securities Identification Number: e.g. [515100] = BASF

intitle:government

link:www.vatican.va

site:spiegel.de Regierungsprogramm

“SPD Hessen“ 2008..2013 filetype:pdf

related:www.ard.de

Union OR association OR club OR society OR organisation OR guild OR team OR brotherhood

Save complex search terms by drag'n'drop

(or bookmark them)

info:www.zhaw.ch

Sport results: e.g. [FC Arsenal]

cache:whitehouse.gov

Calculator: e.g. [(5*9+3)^3]

Foto: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer, Stone Richard/Wikimedia

Follow the presentation:

Units & measures: e.g. [13 miles in kilometres]

Definitions: e.g. [define newsroom]

Maps: e.g. [map new york city]

The "grave digger"-problem:

How to keep clients on the page?

Regional search: e.g. [Pizza 50677]

Parcel tracking (UPS, FedEx, DHL): e.g. [1Z9999W99999999999]

Time & time zone: [time Beijing]

Public data: e.g. [population great britain]

http://bit.ly/1ue5idm

The end of keyword-search

• 95 % of Google users never experienced the "advanced search"

• 80 % of Google users don't know refined search methods

• Filter bubble

Foto: Die.keimzelle/Wikimedia

Foto: BirgitH/Pixelio

"Information Overload"-Problem

"Above the fold"-problem

"Search strategy"-Problem

Scientific Google Research Workshop

Prof. Dr. Hektor Haarkoetter, HMKW Cologne