title: Expert googling: best practices and advanced strategies for using google in health sciences libraries.
abstract: Google is the search engine of choice for most Internet users. For a variety of reasons, librarians and other expert searchers do not always use Google to its full potential, even though it provides capabilities not possible in traditional bibliographic databases and other search engines. Applying expert searching principles and practices, such as the use of advanced search operators, information retrieval strategies, and search hedges to Google will allow health sciences librarians to find quality information on the Internet more efficiently and effectively.
authors.affiliation: University of Pittsburgh, Health Sciences Library System, PA 15261, USA. ammon2@pitt.edu
authors.forename: Ammon S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Ripple
mesh_terms: D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D020407:Internet; D008490:Medical Informatics; D014481:United States