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.

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Find That Elusive Title

“Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.” -- Earl Nightingale (US motivational writer and author, 1921-1989)

PTQ- Petroleum Technology Quarterly (http://www.eptq.com/) offers consistently high value articles written by experts in specific areas.  Usually the articles conclude with a list of cited references. Typically, the citations do not include the title of the referenced article.  Without the title, you may not want to take the time and money to locate and read the referenced article.

Today’s tip: Copy the citation and paste it into a Google® search.  Usually, this will take you to a source that does include the article’s title.

Here is an example …

Cross, C. (2013, Q 4). High-acid crude processing enabled by unique use of computational fluid dynamics. Petroleum Technology Quarterly, pp. 39-49

The cited references in this PTQ article include the following cite …
Derungs W A, Corrosion, 1956, 12, (12), 41

To find the title …
Google®: Derungs W A, Corrosion, 1956, 12, (12), 41

You will find a more complete citation in ...
Naphthenic Acid Corrosion Review

Derungs, W.A., "Naphthenic Acid Corrosion – An Old Enemy Of The Petroleum Industry", Corrosion, 12(2), 41(1956).
source: http://www.setlaboratories.com/nac/tabid/79/Default.aspx.

With the title, you have more information to decide whether it is worth your effort to find and read the cited article.

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