Effective Search Strategies for Automated Systems & Google

Posted on Apr 1, 2025 in Business Administration and Innovation Management

Search Types in Automated Systems

Basic Searches: Single term searches; general searches.

Advanced Search: Combines terms for accurate information, creating sets and subsets with subject terms. Understanding consultation possibilities is crucial for obtaining reliable results.

Boolean Operators

  • Intersection (AND): Search results show documents addressing all specified terms simultaneously.
  • Negation (NOT): Excludes documents containing specified terms.
  • Union (OR): Includes documents addressing at least one of the specified terms.

Paging Systems

Automated systems offer various information retrieval channels.

  • Basic Search: A form for entering terms representing the subject.
  • Advanced Search: Recommended. A form allows entering search terms in different boxes and choosing fields.
  • Expert Search: Terms are combined using Boolean operators, allowing delimiters like *, ?, “, (.

Different Types of Internet Spaces

  • Global Internet: Publicly accessible web.
  • Invisible Internet: Information accessible only through database queries.
  • Dark Internet: Hidden networks.

Google Search: Key Rules

  1. Maximum of 10 words, including terms and operators. Use wildcards to include ignored terms. Fewer words are better.
  2. Google is case-insensitive, except for the OR operator.
  3. Using the same keywords multiple times influences results.
  4. Word order impacts results.
  5. Search by document type by adding it after the search words.

Google Functions

  • G.images: Image search.
  • Scholar G: Academic content, excluding advertising, with citation counts.
  • G News: News and current citations in mass media.
  • G Knol: Similar to Wiki, encouraging users to upload articles.
  • G. Books: Items without copyright restrictions.

Google: Library or Bookshop?

Libraries don’t require fees, offer field-based searches (author, etc.), provide bibliographic references, and allow holding books. Purchased books restrict printing.

Google Reliability

Reliability is measured by ranking based on website visits. Higher visits lead to higher placement.

Google’s reliability system is invisible, so results aren’t always reliable.

Outfoxed allows users to enter a reliability ranking and provides context, indicating reliability.

Problem: Unreliable Websites

Google and social software rely on potentially unreliable websites.