Sreelakshmi Suresh

1. Making the Most
of Google Searches
Learn to Search
Like a Librarian

2. What is Google?

3. Google helps you find:
INFORMATION

4. A Wise Googler…
makes safe and
smart choices.
Always use
Google with
your teacher or
parents.

5. Who can make a website?
Anyone!
Sreelakshmi Suresh is the world’s youngest web designer.

6. How to Start!
 No questions or sentences.
 NO: Who is the oldest American still alive?
 YES: oldest American person
Ms. Besse Cooper
of Georgia is
115 years old.

7. Your Turn!
Whatis the tallest
mountain in the world?
Search Hint:
tallest mountain world

8. Mount Everest
29,035 Feet Tall

9. Try Another One!
How many muscles does
a caterpillar have?
SearchHint:
caterpillar muscles

10. 4,000 Muscles
Humans
have only
640 muscles!

11. One More!
What animal is immune to
every disease?
 (He never gets sick. Not even cancer.)
Search Hint:
animals immune all diseases

12. Sharks

13. Be Very Clear!
Crane?
 Use exact words. Crane?
Crane?
NO: crane Crane?
YES: crane bird
YES: crane machine
NO: Michael Jordan
YES: Michael Jordan basketball
YES: Michael Jordan actor
Michael?
Michael?

14. Instant Conversions
 Google calculates measurements for you
in an instant.
EXAMPLES:
Search: 8 cups in ounces
What do you get?
Search: 5 feet in meters
What do you get?

15. Minus Sign
The
 Leaves out information in a search.
car
animal
football team
EXAMPLE: jaguar (animal)
jaguar –car –Jacksonville –football

16. Quotations
Use quotes for very specific searches.
EXAMPLES:
OBJECTS & PEOPLE
“Space Shuttle Discovery”
“Space Shuttle Endeavor”
“Alexander Graham Bell”
TITLES
“Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”

17. Wildcard
 A * tells Google to fill in the blank.
 Examples:
Civil War cloth*
(Civil War cloth, clothing or clothes)
Water Freez*
(Water Freeze, Freezes, Freezing)

18. Special Signs
site:
Searches ONLY where you tell it.
EXAMPLES:
volcanoes site:discovery.kids.com
Earth atmosphere images site:nasa.gov

19. Your Turn!
What is your science fair topic?
Search Hint:
 YOUR TOPIC site:discovery.com
 YOUR TOPIC site:nationalgeographic.com
EXAMPLE:
water cycle site:discovery.com
honeybees site:nationalgeographic.com

20. Giving Credit
Citing your research is giving credit
to the author for their hard work.
Author’s Name
Any Dates
Article Title
Title of the Website

21. <---Website Title
<---Article Title
<---Author

22. Bibliography
Images Sources:
 http://www.huzzer.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/looking-3.jpg
 http://gotlocaltraffic.com/wp-content/themes/iblogpro/images/top-ranking-
in-google-places.png
 http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/01/09/article-1345441-076E8826000005DC-
675_468x286.jpg
 http://www.owlsweb.info/tidbits/2004/google-spell.jpg
 http://www.nwhm.org/media/category/exhibits/spies/telephone%20operator
s%20world%20war%20I.jpg
 http://www.best-4-u.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Find-Similar-Websites-
On-the-Internet.jpg
 http://www.marcgunther.com/wp-content/uploads/google.jpg
 http://wwwcdn.net/ev/assets/images/vectors/afbig/downward-black-arrow-
clip-art.jpg
 http://www.mononarag.com/wp-
content/uploads/2010/05/real_stop_sign.jpg
 http://www.usa.gov/tutorials/auctions/images/gov_auctions_7.jpg