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Joanne Kehoe Post 1

• 6 June 2018, 4:46 PM

The site tidbit

Great module - so many insights and takeaways. Hi to everyone as this is my first post (active lurker who will backtrack and post -  my bridge is not straight and is full of forks if that is possible). Dervin's sense-making model brought me back to my communication studies' undergrad days and how the information seeking process continually shifts and shapes depending on the user.

The site: option to search by domain was a great standout tidbit for me that I don't use as often as I should. Would have been helpful professionally during a recent search for an audio file on openculture and personally when looking for a coupon on redflagdeals!

As a tip to pass on - I refer students to the Power Searching by Google self-paced courses - obviously very Google-y but helpful.

Cheers,

Joanne

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Susan Jones Post 2 in reply to 1

• 6 June 2018, 5:17 PM

You'd be in one of the hot air balloons wending your way over the chasm :-)   

I saw a tweet thread that outlined how to search twitter that I need to recover... and ... after the stuff in the "necessary" part of my list I'm thinking I want to make a printable cheat sheet of some of the tips here.   

I remember "googlewhacking" -- trying to come up with two terms that got one hit on Google.   I'm pretty sure it's impossible now, but things like "stratocumulus derailleurs" were winners... 

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Joanne Kehoe Post 3 in reply to 2

• 7 June 2018, 2:10 AM

1,730 results now!

Which is pretty darn incredible considering. I am often searching twitter, and quite fruitlessly at that - if you find the thread, pass it on, with my thanks :)

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Peggy French Post 4 in reply to 2

• 7 June 2018, 4:09 AM

Google whacking! Ahhh the memories. Did you read the book stemming from the practice? When he found a single return, he traveled to the origin. Good on the guy for making a living out of a strange (at the time) pastime.

peg.