session 3 using search engines
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Using Search Engines
What is a search engine?
A search engine is a database system designed to index and categorize internet addresses, otherwise known as URLs (for example, http://www.submittoday.com).
How search works
How search works
Search queries
How to search
• Short and simple
• Be aware of word order "song bird"-"bird song"
• Capitalisation does not matter
• Be specific
• Stop words excluded (the, and, is, because )
Search Operators
All-purpose search engines
www.google.com
www.bing.com
www.yahoo.com
Specialised search engines
Videos
Web search - Strategies in plain English:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rESpZFGgFsY
How search works:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNHR6IQJGZs
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