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#960Web Search: Thinking Beyond Google
 
Description:
Go beyond the standard web search tools and learn to search more efficiently; access the invisible web; evaluate websites; use image and non-text search engines; search for scholarly information, news, people, and blogs; and create your own custom search engine.
 
Objectives:
To support faster and more effective web searching. Students will learn:
  • What a search engine does and problems to be aware of when searching.
  • Tips for evaluating websites.
  • The benefits of using different search engines: the Big 3, top 100, metasearch, and visualization search engines.
  • How to search for scholarly information, news, people, blogs, and images and non-text sources.
  • General search strategies and methods for tapping the invisible web, the vast range of sources not covered by standard search engines.
Who should attend:
NIH staff interested in better web searching.
 
Instructor(s):
NIH Library Staff
 
Time Required:
2 hours
 
Sections Available:
-- Concluded -- 960A-09F October 6 9:00 - 11:00 NIH Library Training Room (Building 10) - Lower Level
-- Concluded -- 960B-09F October 21 1:30 - 3:30 NIH Library Training Room (Building 10) - Lower Level
-- Concluded -- 960C-09F November 13 9:00 - 11:00 NIH Library Training Room (Building 10) - Lower Level
-- Concluded -- 960D-09F November 20 1:30 - 3:30 NIH Library Training Room (Building 10) - Lower Level
-- Concluded -- 960E-09F December 18 9:00 - 11:00 NIH Library Training Room (Building 10) - First Floor
960F-09F January 15 9:00 - 11:00 NIH Library Training Room (Building 10) - First Floor
960FA-09F January 29 11:00 - 1:00 NIH Library Training Room (Building 10) - First Floor
960G-09F February 12 9:00 - 11:00 NIH Library Training Room (Building 10) - First Floor
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