4 http://www.colket.org/genealogy/USF/ Syllabus
Finding Genealogical Information On The Internet
Instructor: Currie Colket Phone: Google Search for: colket 941 or (941) 748-7531 Classes 1:00 PM to 2:20 PM Lifelong Learning Academy: University of South Florida
Searching the Static Web
2 July – Overview of Internet, Overview of Genealogy; Static & Dynamic Searches Basic and Advanced Searches; Google Books; Downloading 9 July – Finding Pictures of Your Ancestors on the Internet Searching Images (Photos); Videos; Maps; Google Earth; (Researching in other languages?); Miscellaneous (Facebook; Google Alerts)
Searching Dynamic Databases
16 July – Heritage Quest; Family Search, Family History; Ancestry.com; Archive Grid; NY Times Archive; Stephen P. Morse Webpage; Public 23 July – Census Records; Birth, Marriage, Death Records; Immigration Records Military Records; Land Records 2 Slides at: http://www.colket.org/genealogy/USF/
Internet Search
Static Searches Dynamic Searches ss Indexable Nodes Non Indexable Nodes Private Databases Fee/membership (e.g., Ancestry, Professional, News) Many available with Library membership Use Google, Bing, or other Search Engine Commercial Databases Shopping Every word on Page Or Limited to Is indexed with web employees and crawler customers only
Public Databases City, County, State Federal Records 3 Dark Web
Instructor Background - 1
Instructor: Currie Colket
BS Chemistry 11 years Commissioned Officer USAF MBA MS Computer Science 27 years Software Engineer, US Navy
John Forman4 Bob Munck Instructor Background - 2
Instructor: Currie Colket
Published Genealogy
Chair Manatee Genealogical Society (MGS) Computer Special Interest Group (Computer SIG)
Meets 1st Tuesday of Manatee MGS Computer Special Winter Months Genealogical Interest Group (SIG) (October – May) Society 9:30 AM Chair since 2008 5 Manatee Main Library Slides Available On Internet
6 Overview o Computer Basics For Course o Conducting a Simple Google Search o History of Internet/Browsing o Problem of Searching o Solution to Search Problem o Google Search Basics o Google Results Basics o Miscellaneous Notes
7 Computer Basics For Course - 1
Most Course Materials ONLINE at: http://www.colket.org/genealogy/USF (local)
Need To Download Files
To Download any file: 1. Left click on file 2. ….
8 Computer Basics For Course - 2 To Download any file: 1. Left Click on file 2. Save … or Save as 3. Select Directory and Identify Filename Useful to Download to Desktop or Pictures and Later Move to Desired Directory or Useful to keep filename, if meaningful 4. Hit Save
After Download Open Status Bar, the Open in New Tab File is on Your Open in New Computer Window Save target as … Print Target 9
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If you need Applications, Download them – They are FREE
To Open File: Double Click On It
If you need Application, Download the application
Execute the Application Installation
Then Double Click on File Computer Basics For
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PCs versus MACs
Google, Bing, and Most Search Engines are platform independent!! Google will even work on Workstations using UNIX Hence almost everything in this course pertains to both systems!!
Major impact is slides, which are in Microsoft PowerPoint Hence will also be in PDF for Apple systems Overview o Computer Basics For Course o Conducting a Simple Google Search o History of Internet/Browsing o Problem of Searching o Solution to Search Problem o Google Search Basics o Google Results Basics o Miscellaneous Notes
12 Conducting a Simple Google Search - 1 Opportunity to sign in Go to http://www.google.com or to Google+ http://google.com
Enter Search Term(s) In Window
Click on Google Search
Opportunity to FYI, I use get Google o Microsoft Internet Explorer and Google Chrome Chrome o Microsoft Windows 8.1 Things will look different If you use a different Browser or Operating System 13 Conducting a Simple Google Search - 2
Search Results
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14 Note: March 2010, the number of hits was 72,000 ; October 2011 91,000; now 78,500 Please Ask Questions if you do not Understand Anything
15 Overview o Computer Basics For Course o Conducting a Simple Google Search o History of Internet/Browsing o Problem of Searching o Solution to Search Problem o Google Search Basics o Google Results Basics o Miscellaneous Notes
16 Who Invented the Internet?
17 History of the Internet - 1 • In early 1960’s computers were “standalone” with – Different operating systems for different computers – Different commands to perform similar functions (e.g., login, search) – No communication between computers • Intergalactic Computer Network concept by J.C.R Lickider of Bolt, Beranek, and Newman (BBN) in August 1962 – Concept contained almost everything the Internet is today. • DOD Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA) adopted research concepts as ARPAnet as a means to share defense information between labs during the cold war. • Contract awarded to BBN on 7 April 1969. • Allowed communication between users of computers via packets of information. • First demonstration message sent on 29 October 1969 from a computer at UCLA to a computer at Stanford. - The message was received correctly, but caused the Stanford computer to crash 18 Man on Moon 20 July 1969 History of the Internet - 2
• By September 1971, 23 nodes at DOD research centers and universities. • In 1971, the first network-to-network email was sent • By 1973, 75% of ARPAnet traffic was email • By 1973, the file transfer protocol (ftp) was developed to allow file transfers over the ARPAnet My first email address in 1979 was colket at OSU while working on Masters It was local and could only send and receive email from that OSU computer.
• By 1981, there were 213 hosts with a new host added every 20 days
My first internet address in 1982 was [email protected]
The extra nadc.navy.mil is called the Domain Name; each host had a unique Domain Name
• In 1983, TCP/IP protocols became the principal protocol of the ARPAnet - TCP = Transmission Control Protocol; IP = Internet Protocol 19
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• In 1983, the military aspects were segregated from Internet onto the MILNET to mitigate public access to military computers. • In 1985, gateways to external networks across North America, Europe, and Australia made the Internet global in scope. • In 1990 funding for ARPAnet infrastructure was transferred to NSF. • In March 1991 NSFnet opened up the use of Internet for commercial use. - Al Gore’s Super Information Highway - Called the World Wide Web
My first home page was in 1992 at www.colket.org
- Any one can access using a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) (more later)
• 30 April 1995, NSFnet officially dissolved • At its peak, NSFnet connected more than 4,000 institutions and 50,000 networks across the US, Canada, and Europe
• Protocol allowed for 4,294,967,296 addresses; already exceeded 20
History of Browsing
• Early on very cumbersome • Generally login to a desired computer and search based on the directory • Every computer had its own directory structure and search application(s) • In 1980, Tim Berners-Lee proposed and prototyped ENQUIRE, a system to share documents • In 1990, he collaborated with Robert Cailliau on a joint proposal for the World Wide Web (WWW) or W3 project for a protocol to share information using hypertext.
Became HyperText Markup Language (HTML) – defined using text
This allowed people to organize information they wanted to share with Links to the information or files which could then be downloaded • Requires a browser that could read these HTML files using a protocol called: HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) • Many commercial browsers available today • Internet Explorer (IE), Safari, Netscape, Mozilla Firefox, etc. • Even Google has its own browser called “Google Chrome” 21 • You need a current browser to access latest information
Static Searches
Have Web Crawlers Visit Each Node For “Public Domains”
22 Internet Quick Overview - 1
Wikipedia Definition:
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to serve several billion users worldwide. Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government networks, of local to global scope, that are linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless and optical networking technologies.
The Internet carries an extensive range of information resources and services, such as the inter-linked hypertext documents of the World Wide Web (WWW) and the infrastructure to support email. 23
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Browsers
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Alexa’s Top 500 Global Sites
http://www.alexa.com/topsites/global;0
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Alexa – Top 500 International Sites on the Web Top Search Engines : 1. Google google.com 2. Baidu baidu.com Leading Chinese language search engine 3. Google India google.co.in Indian Version of Google 4. Live live.com Search Engine from Microsoft 5. Google GE google.de Leading German Search Engine 6. Google Japan google.co.jp 7. Bing bing.com Microsoft Search Engine to compete with Google 8. Google UK google.co.uk 9. Ask ask.com http://www.alexa.com/topsites/global;0 10. Google France google.fr 11. Google Brazil google.com.br Mamma - The Mother of All Search 12. Google Russia google.ru 13. Google Italy google.it Engines | Ixquicks | YAHOO 14. Google Spain google.es Are in the noise 15. Google HK google.com.hk Leading Hong Kong Search Engine 16. Google Mexico google.com.mx 17. Google Canada google.ca 18. Google Polska google.pl 19. Google NL google.nl 26
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Most traditional communications media including telephone, music, film, and television are being reshaped or redefined by the Internet, giving birth to new services such as voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and Internet Protocol television (IPTV). Newspaper, book and other print publishing are adapting to Web site technology, or are reshaped into blogging and web feeds.
The Internet has enabled and accelerated new forms of human interactions through instant messaging, Internet forums, and social networking. Online shopping has boomed both for major retail outlets and small artisans and traders. Business-to- business and financial services on the Internet affect supply chains across entire industries.
As of June 2012, more than 2.4 billion people—over a third of the world's human population—have used the services of the Internet; approximately 100 times more people than were using it in 1995, when it was mostly used by tech-savvy middle and upper-class people in the United States and several other countries.[ 27
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Top Ten Reviews
Google Mozilla Internet Rock Sea Deepnet Avant Chrome Foxfire Explorer Opera Sarfari Maxthon Melt Monkey Explorer Browser
http://internet-browser-review.toptenreviews.com/ 32 Why Google????
Google.com is America’s most visited website, according to Alexa
lists the main U.S.-focused google.com site as the Internet's most visited website For the entire International Community
See Google Wikipedia
Google Mission Statement
to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful
33 Why Google???? Mr. Popper’s Penguins
2011 Google Penguin Egg Emergency Hatch How
34 Overview o Computer Basics For Course o Conducting a Simple Google Search o History of Internet/Browsing o Problem of Searching o Solution to Search Problem o Google Search Basics o Google Results Basics o Miscellaneous Notes
35 Problem with Searching
Many search applications developed based on HTML BUT
Search on Coke –117,000,000 hits
Many of these are menu items at restaurants – Much useless information You have hits from every restaurant that has coke on its menu
If you are interested in Coca-Cola headquarters in Atlanta, it may not appear until item 23,672,344
How do you get RELEVANT hits????
How do you get hits ordered so that Relevant Hits are Ordered in a way that facilitates use???? Google found a way to “solve” this problem;
36 Solution to Search Problem - 1 • 1995, Sergey Brin and Larry Page while students at Stanford came up with a concept of using the strength of the Internet community. • Their technology evaluated a site primarily on how many other sites linked to it and ranked search results accordingly. • The technology was called PageRank (named for Larry Page) although, it does rank pages as to which page is most important. • PageRank tended to return results that people found useful, Resulting in a surprisingly valuable system • PageRank was patented by Stanford University. • In 1997, BackRub was a PageRank application so called because the technology analyzed what was going on behind the scenes. • Fall, 1997 BackRub became Google • http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html • Sergey Brin and Larry Page purchased the exclusive licensing rights to PageRank for 37 $1.56B 1,800,000 shares of Google from Stanford
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• Google is an adaption of googol. A googol is the number 1 followed by 100 zeros (10E100). (from Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy). This reflects the number of WWW pages it searches. • In 1998, they dropped out of Stanford to develop Google. • Set up shop in the Menlo Park garage of Susan Wojcicki • 1998, 50 employees. 7 million searches a day. • By 2005, Google was having 250 million web searches per day. • Sergey Brin’s Net Worth is 29.9 Billion Dollars (17th richest in the world in 2014) • Larry Page’s Net Worth is 29.8 Billion Dollars (18th richest in the world in 2014) • Google headquarters, the Googleplex, is located in Mountain View, California. As of March 31, 2009, the company has 19,786 full-time 38 employees; 46,170 by May 2014 - 68 Worldwide locations
What’s a Google?
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Most Relevant Results First
40 Google Search Basics - 0 Ready to do some Google Searching Still a Big Problem
Simple Surname search yields millions of results
Colket => 89,600 results Pelot => 477,000 results Reger => 7,650,000 results Sparrow => 63,900,000 results Johnson => 978,000,000 results Smith => 1,500,000,000 results
Need to find a way to reduce results
Google Basics Discusses way to do this on Search Query Google Results discusses ways to do this on Results Page
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Overview o Computer Basics For Course o Conducting a Simple Google Search o History of Internet/Browsing o Problem of Searching o Solution to Search Problem o Google Search Basics o Google Results Basics o Miscellaneous Notes
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Google cares about: Exceptions to Singular versus Plural – “apple” versus “apples” These Rules
Order Of Words is Important for Ranking “brown bear” – things named “Brown Bear” first – 20,800,000 Hits “bear brown” – emphasis on bears – 87,000,000 Hits Suggest putting Surnames first – Pelot Samuel Spelling is Important Names originating in another alphabet have many valid transliterations Mohamed, Mohammed Pelot, Pelote, Pelotte Sometime Get Spelling Suggestions Google does not care about: Sometimes Use Misspelled Queries Case Sensitivity – Hence “Samuel Pelot” = “samuel pelot”
Little Words Ignored – such as I, where, how, the, of, an, for, from, how, it, in, is, single digits, single letters. If desired, use quotes.
The who Is a Band
Punctuation – MOST PUNCTUATION IS IGNORED. … 43
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– Apostrophes are meaningful Hence Pauls, Paul’s, and Pauls’ require 3 different searches.
– A “-” before a word excludes terms – later – A “-” between 2 or more words strongly connects the words: Example: twelve-year-old dog almost like “twelve year old” – A “-” by itself is ignored
– A “_” between 2 or more words also strongly connects the words Underscore when between 2 words as formal name: Quick_Sort Mary_Beth Underscore treated as a search for MaryBeth | Mary Beth | Mary_Beth – Quotes require exact match – later
Exceptions: Punctuation in proper names: Google+ AB+ C++, A# $ is understood to be dollars “Nikon $400” ≠ “Nikon 400” Ditto for ¢, £, ¥. Etc. @ is understood to be an email address e.g., [email protected]
Hashtags are understood to be trending topics 44 #newenglandpatriots
Google Search Basics - 3 Exact Order; Exact Phrase – Use quotation marks. This techniques is especially useful for genealogy – very different results for 11,000 Hits Samuel George Pelot versus “Samuel George Pelot” 37 Hits 8,670 Hits George Samuel Pelot versus “George Samuel Pelot” 0 Hits
Huh??? Should get the same number – Why??? Does not exist What about the middle name? Some sources report as initial or no middle initial (nmi)
“Samuel Pelot” 231 Hits “Samuel G Pelot” 24 Hits Most Punctuation is ignored “Samuel G. Pelot” 24 Hits 0 Hits “Samuel nmi Pelot” 87,200 Hits with G. 410,200 Hits 3,390,000 Hits with Graham 45 Remember, a search for “Alexander Bell” will miss hits for “Alexander G Bell”
Google Search Basics - 4 Search Within Site/Domain – Identify site in query:
iraq site:nytimes.com – returns hits on “Iraq” in NY Times only iraq site:.gov returns hits only from a .gov domain iraq site:.iq returns hits only from an Iraq domain
Good for genealogy research: Pelot site:nytimes.com 157 Hits NY Times only Pelot 394,000 Hits Worldwide Pelot site:.fr 14,700 Hits French Domain Pelot site:.ch 1,070 Hits Swiss Domain Pelot site:.ca 2,900 Hits Canadian Domain Pelot site:.us 2,410 Hits US Domain (not null) Pelot site:.mil 89 Hits US Military Domain Pelot site:.gov 947 Hits US Government Domain Pelot site:.biz 5,480 Hits US Business Domain 46
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Exclude Terms – Use “-” preceded by a blank Say searching for anti-virus stuff for humans:
Note: “-” is part of anti-virus 132,000,000 Hits the word for includes antivirus, anti virus, and anti-virus” “anti -virus” anti-virus -software 79,100,000 Hits Strongly jaguar -cars -football Can use multiple negations Connected
and for the poor fellow with the surname of “Sparrow”
Sparrow 63,400,000 Hits Sparrow -bird Sparrow -bird -book 60,400,000 Hits 45,500,000 Hits
Note: Combinations of Search Terms can be effective 47
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OR Operator – Sometimes you want hits for either/or Use cap “OR” or OR Operator “|”
Tampa Bay Buccaneers 2,620,000 Hits Tampa Bay Buccaneers 2004 298,000 Hits Tampa Bay Buccaneers 2005 409,000 Hits Tampa Bay Buccaneers 2004 2005 206,000 Hits Tampa Bay Buccaneers 2004 OR 2005 726,000 Hits Tampa Bay Buccaneers 2004 | 2005 726,000 Hits
Exceptions: Phrases such as “FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE”
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Google Search Basics - 7 Feeling Lucky – Gives you the first page.
Wild Cards
– Use a “*” – Works on words, not parts of words – Use a “?” – Single characters (Officially not in Google)
For Questions: “"How often does Halley's comet appear?“ Pose as: “Halley’s Comet appears every * years” – it’s 76 years
Also for unknown middle names Samuel * Pelot 10,700,000 Hits Difference for “Samuel * Pelot“ 7,910,000 Hits Difference for “Samuel ? Pelot“ 624 Hits Note: For Samuel Pelot 801,000 Hits and For “Samuel Pelot“ 616 Hits
Ten Word Limit – Search terms over 10 are ignored
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Misspellings – Try alternative spellings thousands of Web sites mention Arnold Schwarznegger 70,000 Hits though the governator spells his name "Schwarzenegger” 34,500,000 Hits
Google recognizes some misspellings and provides alternatives New since Mar 2010
50 Google Search Basics - 9 Not Advertised Google Tool, But Common Search Tool (e.g., Archive Grid) – Proximity Search Seems to be Useful With Google
Proximity Search “Samuel Pelot”~3 Hits for:
Samuel Pelot 801,000 Hits
“Samuel Pelot” 616 Hits “Samuel George Pelot” 27 Hits “Samuel G Pelot” 73 Hits “Samuel Pelot”~2 351 Hits (catch initial) “Samuel Pelot”~3 190 Hits “Samuel Pelot”~4 158 Hits “Samuel Pelot”~7 126 Hits “Samuel Pelot”~10 173 Hits 51
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Keep Search Terms Simple Most Queries do not require advanced operators or unusual syntax Simply enter name, place, product, or concept, Simple is good Think of terms likely to be on result pages Don’t use My Head Hurts Instead use Headache {term likely found on medical page} Describe what you want in as few words as possible Use Weather Cancun Instead of Weather Report for Cancun Mexico Choose Descriptive Terms Use Celebrity Ringtones
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Can be used to construct interesting queries Based on Basic Searches
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Can be used to construct
interesting queries
Based on Basic Searches
Date ranges can filter out a lot of stuff, But also can prevent viewing good data
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55 Questions
Please Ask Questions if you do not Understand Anything 56 Overview o Computer Basics For Course o Conducting a Simple Google Search o History of Internet/Browsing o Problem of Searching o Solution to Search Problem o Google Search Basics o Google Results Basics o Miscellaneous Notes
57 Google Results - 1
Start Search Search Term(s) Advanced Filters Search (Controls For Advanced Result Search Statistics Options) Link Sponsored Uniform Links Resource Locator (URL) Sometimes Similar Pages Result Snippet Cached Pages Links
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Ordered By Relevance [Indented same site, less relevant] Also sponsored links, links to news stories, Ads True, unpaid results are on the lower left Ads are on the right (no more than 10 per page) Sponsored Links on top (Ads, at a higher rate; colored background) True Unpaid Search Results => Title Text from site with Snippets of your search terms (in bold) URL => Uniform Resource Locator Size Date – NOT created/updated, but when last crawled Dataset in Jul crawl of 2014 is over 266TB containing 4.05 billion webpages Indication if Cached – Good place to go if Page Removed URL goes to current page Cached link goes to cached page – handy if page deleted or link broken Cached version is used to highlight key words File Format .html use browser .pdf – read with Adobe’s free reader at www.adobe.com .doc – read with Microsoft’s free reader at www.microsoft.com .ppt – read with Microsoft’s free reader at www.microsoft.com Similar Results 59
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Location Feature – Sets default for searches
Location auto-detected - by IP Address - or entered into Google Toolbar Can be changed, if you are looking for stuff in a different location **Only works in your selected country** Manually set location is stored in a “Cookie” Can also be turned off
Type of Content – Limit results to a particular type of web content:
Images, Videos, News, Shopping, Books, Called Filters Discussions, Places, Blogs, Real-time (e.g., updates from Twitter) or select the default – Everything
This is a big recent change Five years ago one had to search each database --- The databases were not integrated --- They are now ---
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62 Overview o Computer Basics For Course o Conducting a Simple Google Search o History of Internet/Browsing o Problem of Searching o Solution to Search Problem o Google Search Basics o Google Results Basics o Miscellaneous Notes
63 Note on URLs
• Results of Google Search provided as a
• Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
• URL Format: Domain Name World Wide Web Extension URL http://www.google.com.uk Uniform Resource Locator
HyperText Transfer Protocol Domain Name Domain Name Country Extension • Domain Names: http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/index.jsp • URL for my domain name is: http://www.colket.org • Domain name extensions include: .com .mobi .mil .gov .edu .net .info .org .biz .bz .tv • Domain Name Extensions (including Country): http://www.networksolutions.com/glossary/glossary- d.jsp#domainnameextensions • Domain Name Country Extensions – 64 .be .ca .cn .de .es. ru.com se.com .us
Note on IP Addresses
• Every URL maps into a Unique Number called an IP (Internet Protocol) Address http://www.google.com => 216.239.51.99 • IPV4 in format of xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (e.g., 208.77.188.166) 32 2 can handle 4,294,967,296 addresses Google crawls Expected to run out in early 2000s Over • IPV6 in format of x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x in late 1990s 8,000,000,000 Pages each (e.g., 2001:db8:0:1234:0:567:1:1) month 2128 (or 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 ) addresses • IP addresses still work as IPV4 addresses all map to IPV6 • Operating systems are migrating to IPV6 Need Current (e.g., Vista uses IPV6; XP uses IPV4) Browser Go to help/support on your computer searching for IPV6
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“Relevancy” might not be relevant to Researchers and Genealogists.
Google’s use of Relevancy is not useful for doing many types of searches:
• Dynamic Databases • Genealogy Searches on family surnames • Obscure information • Much non-business oriented information • Rather unique information Google Alerts - 1
“ss Google Alerts - 2 Google Alerts - 3 Google Alerts - 4 Dynamic Searches Static Searches Dynamic Searches Indexable Nodes Non Indexable Nodes Private Databases Fee/membership (e.g., Ancestry, Professional, News) Many available with Library membership Use Google, Bing, or other Search Engine Commercial Databases Shopping Every word on Page Or Limited to Is indexed with web employees and crawler customers only
Public Databases City, County, State Federal Records
Dark Web
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Desired Information is in a Separate Database Auction Sites: Ebay | Craig’s List | UBid | Bid Start | Ebid | US Seek
Web Pages are Private and Not Available for Google Most businesses have a public web site and a private web site Only data companies want to share is available via Google
Limited Access Web Sites – Typically for profit sites, e.g., ACM’s Digital Library – No Google access at all Ancestory.com – Google provides “Teaser” results to entice membership Chicago Tribune – Get “Teaser” hits on Google, but have to pay to access data
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The dark web Archive Grid New York Times Database 72 Future of WWW
Google Glass Video
Sergy Brin IHS estimates that wearable-technology companies could sell up to 9.4 million devices by 2016, a figure that includes smart glasses, smart wristbands and smart watches. However, privacy advocates warn that users must think carefully about giving companies even more streams of data about their lives. While Google has not offered official guidance on how it plans to navigate the privacy or etiquette questions surrounding its Google Glass project, some developers have addressed the topic. Alexandria, VA-based developer Noble Ackerson has created etiquette tip cards that aim to dispel some of the myths 73 about people wearing these devices. Questions
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