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Keywords e.g.: „not for publication“, „secret“, „not for official use“, „confidential“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e.g. [„secret“ OR „confidential“ OR „not for publication“ filetype:doc OR filetype:docx OR filetype:pdf site:companyname.com]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]
Foto: Tomislav Medak/Wikimedia
Foto: Peter Hamer/Wikimedia
Other Google Engines
Open Data
Data search engines
Data, where are thou?
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/
Foto: Michael Holley/Wikimedia
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
Foto: Nürnberger Zeitung/Franken-Wiki
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:
Italy OR Spain
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
- 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]
The end of keyword-search
- 95 % of Google users never experienced the "advanced search"
- 80 % of Google users don't know refined search methods
Foto: Die.keimzelle/Wikimedia
"Information Overload"-Problem
"Above the fold"-problem
"Search strategy"-Problem
Scientific Google Research Workshop
Prof. Dr. Hektor Haarkoetter, HMKW Cologne