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As Librarian of Congress, I oversee the many thousands of dedicated staff who acquire, catalog, preserve, and make available library collections within our three buildings on Capitol Hill and over the Internet. I am pleased that you are visiting our Web site today, and I invite you return to it often. Sincerely, James H. An agency of the legislative branch of the U.S. government, the Library of Congress encompasses several integral service and support units, listed below. Office of the Librarian Congressional Research Service Copyright Office Law Library. Clusty the clustering search engine. SEO Dictionary. Digging Beyond the Typical Search Engine to Find Better Research. By Eric Hebert Okay tough guy, so you think you're the man when it comes to doing research for that term paper.

Or maybe you're so confident in your abilities that you'll not only get a passing grade, but actually impress your professors? Well, you're absolutely right. I mean, all you have to do is type some words in the search engines and BAM, you'll find all the documents you need, right? Not so fast, bucko.

While it is true that search has made finding information faster and easier than ever before, the train doesn't stop there. You're not going to find everything you need in a search engine result, and if you don't get prepared to look elsewhere, you better have a good excuse when it comes time to hand in that paper. Sometimes it takes more effort to find the information you're looking for, the kind that will not only get you through school, but also win you the admiration of your professors and peers. 1. 2. 4.

The BBC isn't the only resource the U.K. has to offer. 5. 7. 8. 9. 10. Top 100 Alternative Search Engines, February 2007. Hakia Search Engine Beta. Pro guide to Google searches. Part II » Our Picks - News, articl. As I was telling you in the first part of this article, I am glad that we’ve got over the basics of Google searching so now we can look into more interesting search options. First of all there is a part of Google’s syntax that allows you to tell it where exactly to search. This comes in handy when you know part of a URL or maybe a title but you can’t find the exact page. You can use ‘intitle:’ to search only the titles for web pages, as many of the other functions that are to follow ‘intitle:’ has a variation, namely ‘allintitle:’ that includes all the terms that follow in to the title search: intitle:”Santa Maria” boat -> searches in title for Santa Maria and does a search on the term boatallintitle:pirate ships treasure -> searches in title for all the terms I think you’ve got the idea so here is a list of syntax words that work the same way: ‘phonebook:’ as expected searches phone numbers or gives you the owner of a certain phone number.

In addition to all these Google is a calculator: Pro guide to Google searches. Part I » Our Picks - News, article. We all use Google every day, quite a few times a day even and most of us are very pleased with it. But are the results to your searches always that relevant!? Often you find irrelevant results and it takes you longer than it should to find what you want. But is this because of Google’s faulty search algorithms or is it because sometimes our searches can be ambiguous?

Well whatever the case after the Gmail search article I decided to expand the subject a little. I know some things you will find here you already know and some of them might be new for you. Anyway you can consider them as a reminder of what searching on Google really means. I will start with the basic syntax that I am sure all of you know, but it’s the basis for further more complex syntax.

You can search whole phrases by using quotes like “Rose Chappel” instead of plain Rose Chappel. I presume you also know about word exclusion, when you want to exclude a certain term from your search: PS3 -price. Google search URLs revealed or How to create your own search URL. We all know the Google Advanced Search page that lets you refine your searches and find what you need faster. But how many of us understand the complicated URLs the search engines generates?

Well I am not saying that I’m some sort of expert but here are some information regarding the URLs generated by Google. Let’s start by looking at one such URL: You don’t understand much and it looks quite long but it doesn’t have to be this way. What you should know is that you always start with: as_oq -> This tells Google to find pages in which at least instance of nintendo OR wii is found as_q -> This means that you look for nintendo and wii in the same page as_epq -> Google translates this as a Google search of “nintendo wii”, searches the exact phrase ‘nintendo wii’ num -> The number of results you want displayed, it ranges from 0 to 100.