Power searching the Internet : the librarian's quick guide

Summary: This book discusses how librarians can help library patrons deepen their internet searches to more effectively find information, images, videos, statistics, maps, books, definitions, translations, and more.

Record details

ISBN: 9781440866975
ISBN: 144086697X
ISBN: 9781440866982
Physical Description: print
viii, 103 pages ; 24 cm
Publisher: Santa Barbara, California : Libraries Unlimited, [2019]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Using Google effectively -- Special features -- Advanced search features -- Personalization -- Privacy of your Google data -- Other privacy tools -- Using other Google sites effectively -- Google news -- Google translate -- Google books -- Google scholar -- Google maps -- Multimedia searching -- Google images -- Finding images with licenses that allow reuse -- Reverse image search -- Searching for videos on Google -- YouTube filters -- Vimeo search -- Social media searching -- Twitter search -- Facebook as a search engine -- Instagram search -- Pinterest search -- Finding old websites -- Using the wayback machine from Internet Archive -- Using Google's cache -- Data, statistics, comparisons -- Using Wolfram Alpha.