What’s It All About, Google?

Everybody Googles. But does everybody know HOW to Google®? No, they don’t. Which is the whole point of the Desulfurization Blog (www.desulf.blogspot.com)

So here is a very short tutorial on how to make the immense resources that Google® offers work for you.

Let’s pretend that we care about recent developments in nonmetallic piping, because it may provide a solution to the pervasive problem of corrosion.

For purposes of this exercise, we will start with the following search string …

Google® Patents: nonmetallic AND (tubular OR pipe OR piping OR pipeline)

Here are the steps in this search …

• Search Google® Patents
• Refine your search string
• On the results page, click the download link
• Open the downloaded file in Excel
• Use Google® Translate (https://translate.google.com/) where necessary
• Sort the downloaded Excel file to purpose

Google® translate example:
Inventor
徐宝安
Google® Translate result: Xu Baoan

国立大学法人広島大学
Google® Translate result: Hiroshima University

This is all pretty simple stuff, and quite straight forward. It does require some time, however. You may benefit from experienced research assistance by the likes of me, Jean Steinhardt (www.jeansteinhardtconsulting.com). It could save you boatloads of time … time you could use in pursuit of your own skill set.

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Google® Better!
Jean Steinhardt served as Librarian, Aramco Services, Engineering Division, for 13 years. He now heads Jean Steinhardt Consulting LLC, producing the same high quality research that he performed for Aramco.

Follow Jean’s blog at: http://desulf.blogspot.com/  for continuing tips on effective online research
Email Jean at research@jeansteinhardtconsulting.com  with questions on research, training, or anything else
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Add SemanticScholar to your search engine toolbox

Anybody and everybody can Google , but serious researchers use tools like Google Scholar and Google Patents. Another tool to add to your box is SemanticScholar (https://www.semanticscholar.org/).

According to a Wikipedia article …

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Semantic Scholar is a project developed at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence. Publicly released in November 2015, it is designed to be an AI-backed search engine for academic publications.^[1] The project uses a combination of machine learning, natural language processing, and machine vision to add a layer of semantic analysis to the traditional methods of citation analysis, and to extract relevant figures, entities, and venues from papers.^[2] In comparison to Google Scholar and PubMed, Semantic Scholar is designed to highlight the most important and influential papers, and to identify the connections between them.
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Scholar
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TIP: This Wikipedia article is short. Take the time to read the whole thing. Then take a few more minutes to follow the links presented in the article. It will help you decide which resource(s) is/are best for your purpose.

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Google® Better!
Jean Steinhardt served as Librarian, Aramco Services, Engineering Division, for 13 years. He now heads Jean Steinhardt Consulting LLC, producing the same high quality research that he performed for Aramco.

Follow Jean’s blog at: http://desulf.blogspot.com/  for continuing tips on effective online research
Email Jean at research@jeansteinhardtconsulting.com  with questions on research, training, or anything else
Visit Jean’s Web site at http://www.jeansteinhardtconsulting.com/  to see examples of the services we can provide

India Calling: Refining India Technology Conference Call for Papers

Anand Giridharadas sensed something was afoot as his plane from America prepared to land in Bombay. An elderly passenger looked at him and said, "We're all trying to go that way," pointing to the rear. "You, you're going this way?" -- (India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation's Remaking – by Anand Giridharadas)

PTQ / DigitalRefining.com has announced the Refining India Technology Conference, 20-21 September 2021. A CALL FOR PAPERS will be sent out in January, but if you already have a presentation in mind, you are invited to  send your abstract to: presentations@refiningindia.com

Here are details from a recent email that landed in my inbox …

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Subject:                 Refining India Technology Conference, 20-21 September 2021
From:     "PTQ / DigitalRefining.com" <technicalcontent@petroleumtechnology.com>
Date:      Wed, December 2, 2020 4:06 am
Refining India brings together engineers and senior management from Indian and international operating and refining technology companies.
Presentations will address the major contribution of refining and petrochemicals to India’s burgeoning economy and the developments that are needed to underpin that contribution.
A CALL FOR PAPERS will be sent out in January, but if you already have a presentation in mind, please send your abstract to: presentations@refiningindia.com
There are a number of SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES available.
For more information, please contact: sales@petroleumtechnology.com
Organised by PTQ / Digital Refining in partnership with Industrial Development Services
      +44 20 8581 6932 | sales@petroleumtechnology.com | www.refiningindia.com
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Google® Better!
Jean Steinhardt served as Librarian, Aramco Services, Engineering Division, for 13 years. He now heads Jean Steinhardt Consulting LLC, producing the same high quality research that he performed for Aramco.

Follow Jean’s blog at: http://desulf.blogspot.com/  for continuing tips on effective online research
Email Jean at research@jeansteinhardtconsulting.com  with questions on research, training, or anything else
Visit Jean’s Web site at http://www.jeansteinhardtconsulting.com/  to see examples of the services we can provide