INFO 106
Google
Background Info
Read: Badke:
Chapter 6 Internet Research
Part 1
Use the SSCC
Library database Mergent’s (or some
other source of information) to answer these questions:
1.
What year was Google formed?
2.
How
much revenue does Google get per year?
3.
What
is the approximate value of a share of preferred stock for Google?
4.
How
many shareholders own Google?
5.
How
any employees does Google have?
Part 2
Read these 2
articles that I posted about Google:
Pike, George. .Google's
Antitrust Woes Continue
.
Bates, Mary. Is Google Hiding My News?
Online35. 6
(Nov/Dec 2011): 64
1.. What is Google’s apparent market share for
Internet searching?
2. Why is the Federal government looking at
Google vis-a vis antit-trust issues?
3. What is filtering?
Part 3
Searching Google’s Search Engine
1.
Despite the apparent simplicity of www.google.com , there
is a lot of information
accessible there. Give me a few examples.
2.
Try a search, any
search. What does Google start doing
immediately?
What search terms did you use?
3.
Do you remember the “Advanced Search” that Google once
had?
4.
When your results
are displayed, what are some of the limits
on the left side?
5.
Try limiting your search results with a whole bunch of
these limits.
6.
Give me your 3 best:
a.
b.
c.
Part 4
Google Scholar
1.
What is Google
Scholar?
2.
Try doing a search in just Google Scholar?
3.
What is your search query?
4.
Compare the results with the ‘regular’ Google
5.
Compare the
results with the results of a search of a library periodical database such as
Academic Search Complete or ProQuest.
Part 5
Google Books
1.
What magazines can
you find full text here?
2.
What book services are offered through Google Books?
3.
Do a search of Google Books on the same topic or a
different one.
4.
What are your results?
5.
Search the Seattle Community College District Library
catalog to compare.
Feel free
to use some other library catalog.
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