This week's blog post features Guest blogger Robin Cicchetti explaining the ins-and-outs of Google Scholar! Do you ever get frustrated with web searches? When your students do research do they come back with unimpressive sources? Even when using advanced search strategies the Internet can feel like a barren place as you paw through endless pages of returns! Skimming the Surface That’s because Google and other current search engines are only skimming the surface web (Goodman, 2015). The algorithms that direct web crawlers identify metadata through hyperlinks and then index the site. They don’t have access to the proprietary content that lives in the deep web which consists of: Results of database queries Subscription-only information and other password-protected data Pages that are not linked to by any other page Technically limited content, such as that requiring CAPTCHA technology Text content that exists outside of conventional http:// or https:// protoc
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