Part II: Crafting Queries and Using the Google Research Tools in Visual Studio .NET

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ll the ability in the world to use Google s fabulous research tools won t help you find out what you and your research clients need to know if you don t know how to conduct research in the first place 10 helps you research like a pro answering the following questions: What questions should you ask What research tools are available to you How can you become a better and more ethical researcher 11 explains how to use the underlying power, methodologies, and mechanisms that power Google to your advantage as a researcher and avoid the pitfalls that are the fault of the nature of Google itself Finally, you need to know how to present your research results Look no further than 12

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Asking the right questions Conducting a reference interview the right way Knowing what information is (and isn t) available with Google Trawling the invisible Web and using research services Becoming a research professional

oogle, and the World Wide Web itself, are great research tools when you simply use their bare-bones features But when you realize that you ve just scratched the surface with these tools, you ll want to learn more And the truth is that you can t expect to get the most out of the facilities provided by Google or even think about automating the Google facilities without a good understanding of the nature of research itself This chapter gets to the heart of the matter and helps you take your casual search queries into overdrive If you re conducting serious research, you can use this chapter to help you determine which questions to ask And if you re not ready to begin your research project just yet, use this chapter to help you decide which situations are likely to call for research and if you re working as a professional researcher which clients are likely to be making research requests One truism in the world of software development is that to build a tool that automates a process, you must first understand how the process works manually Similarly, to understand how to best research using Google, it also helps to have a good understanding of how to use conventional research tools, such as reference interviewing, libraries, and public record repositories Even if you re already in the know about conventional research, this chapter is a great reference that explains how to employ some of the most useful conventional tools of the trade while using the Google technology You learn what information is simply not available on the Web (and what tools to use to find this information), and how to approach the so-called invisible Web that is, information resources that are available on the World Wide Web that you cannot access using a search engine such as Google

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You can answer a gazillion casual questions using Google For example, like millions of people, you ve probably found a lot of information about a person by doing a search on Google using his or her name as the search term Heck, maybe you ve even done such a Google search on yourself Likewise, you can obtain information about products and places (see 1 for details) And, often, you can clarify a technical concept or process by simply entering the term in the ubiquitous Google search box In this spirit, as an example, if you need to learn about how server-side includes are used in building Web sites, entering the phrase into Google (essentially, the what is and the question mark are implied) will probably provide links that give you all the information you need Google is a great tool for answering simple questions, but to search with Google is not to research with Google Intense research deals with questions that can t be quantified with a single, simple question In fact, real research doesn t involve a question at all, but instead involves a topic that is broad and essentially unanswerable as formulated Generally, this kind of research does not mean original scientific investigation (which is sometimes called original research), but rather deep investigation for example, providing strategic intelligence about a complex industry Good researchers drill down, refine, and redefine the research assignment so that it becomes a series of answerable questions that can be answered possibly by querying Google The following sections explain the importance of questions to serious research and how to present the answers Presenting answers largely depends upon who is asking the questions (in the case of a professional researcher, it is the client) So I also explain some of the issues involved in understanding the needs of the research client