Google Like a Scholar: Google

No one can deny that Google's various search engines are powerful tools for research—but we've all had that experience where we can't find what we want and have no idea how to get the best sources. Whether your searches yield too many results, too few relevant results, or results that might not be the most current scholarship in a discipline, this guide will demonstrate advanced search techniques for navigating different Google products more effectively and efficiently.

Google uses a trademarked search technology (PageRank™) algorithm which combines several elements including:

• Popularity: the number of links to and from that same page
• Importance: hits and online traffic and functioning of links (do the links work)
• Proximity: where your search terms are in relation to each other and the number of times they occur in the results

• Google Inside Search (Blog)

• If you want to track important Google product updates, Google Inside Search is the place to start.

• Official Google Blog

  This covers the entirety of Google. Google employees blog here about Google products, search technology, and information culture.