The Joy of Search is a book that Ive been recommending for a couple of years now. Its everything about search techniques and is a must-read for anyone who desires to develop much better search strategies or teach search techniques. The book was written by Dan Russell whose title at Google is Senior Research Scientist for Search Quality and User Happiness. What he does that you, I, and trainees ought to care about is craft actually fascinating lessons on utilizing a variety of search methods. You can find a number of those lessons in his routine series of search challenges on his blog SearchReSearch. And if you get a chance to hear him speak at a conference, take it!Back to the book, in The Joy of Search youll discover stories used to describe how to employ numerous search strategies. To get a sense of what the book has to do with, you can get a free chapter of the book today from Dans blog site. The chapter that is offered is entitled Finding a Mysterious Location Somewhere on the planet: How to Use Multiple Information Sources to Zero In on a Resource. In the chapter youll discover one of my favorite techniques for getting trainees to look at all of the info that is offered to them in order to form a great search technique and employ great search terms.On a related note, over on Practical Ed Tech I have an on-demand webinar titled Ten Search Strategies Students Need to Know..

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