Monday, April 7, 2014

Leaning Activity 01 Searching

INTERNET

Learning Activity 01-Searching

* Search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Exalead are just a few of many search engines. I particularly like google scholar but it depends on the information you are searching for, forums are a great source of information and may help in narrowing down any search ie: someone else may have performed similar searches and performed all the hard work for you. I stumbled across a multitude of search engines and have placed the link below:

*Narrowing down your search by using specific keywords also using simple terms.
*Placing related: in front of your search term will also bring up related sites which may help you in narrowing the search
*Using google wildcard *, using this technique with a one word search google will bring up items it deems relevant to the term although this may also widen your search but it also brings opportunity for narrowing your search.

*And is classified as a stop word but by placing a + in front of AND this is telling the search engine to include those words in the results.

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