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Advanced Search Queries for Students

Thinking ProcessSearch is simple, but getting the best results for your search query often isn’t. There are lots of factors that can throw off the algorithms of most search engines, so understanding special modifiers to use in your search for specific items will allow you to perform better research, much more quickly.

 

Teaching Search Strategies in the Classroom

Unzipping Google

Today research sources are so readily available that search skills not only could be integrated into every aspect of the classroom environment, but they should be. The main goal of teaching search skills in the classroom is to change the way people think about search.

 

Bootcamp

Presentation Slides, Tools & Links

  • PDF (Feel free to distribute, share and upload)

 

Limit of 301 Redirects

In a video session Matt Cutts explains an issue of 301 redirection (permanent redirects) and talks about limits of use and how many redirects can be chained together.

 

SEO Test: Site Command

According to our casual observations site: command in Google tends to sort URLs by their length among other criteria (candicates: indexing/caching date, content, uniqueness…etc). To test how this work with pure URLs and minimal content we conducted a test with the following parameters:

 

Google Archive News

In their information preservation initiative, Google introduces many pages of books and news materials available for search by public. Although OCR technology has been around for decades we still don’t seem to be able to get it right.

 

Smartphone Pie

Smartphone Pie

 

PageRank Update: August 2011

Google Pagerank UpdateDejan SEO team reports another surprise  PageRank update at Google. At this stage it’s not clear whether the update is localised to a limited number of results or rolled out globally. Last reported update took place in July after the June’s Twitter stuff-up by Google.

 

Search Algorithm Release Process at Google

During the panel discussion at the Churchill Club Danny Sullivan asked Matt Cutts, Ben Gomes, and Amit Singhal about the recent algorithm changes including the famous Panda. Although the answers were not particularly informative they did give insight into Google’s quality algorithm release process.

 

The Promise and Challenge of Digital Data

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

Article by Dan Petrovic, http://dejanseo.com.au/

Audience QuestionsA great evening with the Friends of the Library brings a fascinating discussion around the promises and challenges of digital data. Four industry experts shared their insight and knowledge around information preservation, digitisation, retrieval, storage and continuity:

  • Anna Raunik, State Library of Queensland
  • Adrian Cunningham, Queensland State Archives
  • Michael Blumenstein, Griffith University
  • Linda O’Brien, Griffith University

 

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