Using GOOGLE Internet
Searches to Make Your Job
Easier
Robin Arnicar, RN
President, NADONA
Director Clinical Operations
Erickson Living Management
Objectives
• Recognize 2 search engines able to be used to search for topics
• Give 2 examples of symbols you can use in your search to locate the
information you are searching for
• Gain understanding of how to use Google’s advanced search feature.
• Effectively locate potential training resources, policies and tools.
Why use the Internet?
• Find useful tools
• Look for a Policies
• Find Training Material
• Keep up to date with Regulations and professional news
• Assist with Presentations
• Vast Resources, a click away
THE BIGGEST ADVANTAGE
• YOU ARE NOT REINVENTING THE WHEEL
INTERNET FACTS
There are roughly 3.3 billion internet users in the world, which is only about 40%
of the estimated world population
The top 5 most popular websites in the US are: Google, YouTube, Facebook,
Amazon and Yahoo.
Google is the most popular search engine in the world. Followed by Bing ,Yahoo,
Baidu, and AOL.
Most people never go beyond the first page of search results on Google.
Search Engine
• a program that searches for and identifies items in a database
that correspond to keywords or characters specified by the
user, used especially for finding particular sites on the World
Wide Web.
Google Search techniques
Search techniques are the methods you use to search catalogs, article
databases, and web search engines to find information.
This lesson will cover some more advanced Google search techniques
which can help you refine your searches.
Start Your Google Search by Being Specific.
• Tell the search engine exactly what you are looking for:
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Training, statistics
Pictures/ images
Statistics/ data
Format: PowerPoint/ Excel/ Word, etc.
Domain type
Examples of Advanced Search Techniques
 Use quotation marks to search for phrases
 Use the minus (-) symbol in front of a word to exclude it
 Search in appropriate domains (.com, .edu, .gov)
 Use the advanced search screen to help refine your search
Quotation Marks
Quotation marks are used around phrases. By using quotations marks, you are
telling the computer to only bring back pages with the terms you typed in the
exact order you typed them.
Example:
“health care reform”
instead of
health AND care AND reform
Minus
Symbol
(-)
Sometimes when searching the web, the computer displays
lots of results that are not on your topic.
For example, you want to find information on long term
care , but most of the search results are pulling up
Insurance . To remove these hits, search for: “long term
care” -Insurance
To limit your search to a specific domain type
Add site: domain to your search.
Or use the advanced search option and type in the domain.
Domain Searching
When searching the web, it is sometimes helpful to limit
your results to a specific domain.
The domain of a web site indicates the type of
organization or geographic region from which the site
originates. Helpful domain limiters include:
– .edu-education
– .gov-government,
– .mil-U.S. military,
– .org-organization
– .com-commercial
Search Within a Site
• When you are looking
for information from a
specific site.
• Example: you want
handwashing
information but you
only want it from CDC
• CDC.gov handwashing
Google’s Advanced Search
Honorable Mention: YOU TUBE
Lets try a few examples
• GOOGLE
• You tube
Question and Answer
• Robin Arnicar
• [email protected]
• 304-839-7792