internet search
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Different search tricks to searching the web.TRANSCRIPT
Internet Search
Finding Information on the Internet
My Journey
Why do I care about this?
Milestones in Web Growth
I’ll be going through...
•Directories
•Search Engines (indexing)
•Search Math
•Meta Search Engines
•Social Bookmarks
Directories
Compiled by humans
Directories
Search Engines (Indexing)
Compiled by Computers
Search Engines (Indexing)
Search Engines (Indexing)
9%3%
6%
10%
24%
49%
Google Yahoo MSNAOL Ask Others
Source: Nielsen NetRatings - July 2006
Importance of the “TOP 10”
Search Math: Get this nerd out of here
Quotes: “Rosa Parks”
“ ”
Pluses: "red cross" +flag
Minuses: bambi disney animated -movie
Combining: “moon landing” apollo -“john young”
Boolean Operators: (AND, NOT, OR)
Synonyms: Harvard ~University (college, school, etc)
File Types: “brown v. board of education” filetype:ppt
Title Search: intitle:“Elevator Up”
URL Search: inurl:badger
Define Search: define: agitprop
Site Search: pirates site:disney.com
Link Search: link:imagegroup.com
Phonebook Search: for the stalkers in the group
Stock Reports: stocks: aapl
Calculator: 2+2=4 or teaspoons in a gallon
Meta Search Engines
Searching the search engines
Dogpile.com - a meta crawler
6 Step to Searching the Internet
You’re going to hate this, but give it a try.
6 Steps to Searching the Internet
• Summarize your topic
• Identify your key concepts
• Choose your keywords
• Choose your search tool
• Search until you find
• Evaluate the resources
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Example 1
Mark is a truck driver. His brother recently gave him a used Compaq Presario running Windows ME. Mark is kind of new to computers -- he mostly uses his computer to surf the Internet and play games.
Recently, when trying to run Windows Update, Mark's computer threw up an error message that said IExplore has caused a problem in mshtml.dll. Iexplore will now close.
Example 1
Mark is a truck driver. His brother recently gave him a used Compaq Presario running Windows ME. Mark is kind of new to computers -- he mostly uses his computer to surf the Internet and play games.
Recently, when trying to run Windows Update, Mark's computer threw up an error message that said IExplore has caused a problem in mshtml.dll. Iexplore will now close.
Example 1
IExplore has caused a problem in mshtml.dll “Windows Update” “Windows ME”
Example 2
I want to find a list of search strategies recommended by college libraries.
Example 2
I want to find a list of search strategies recommended by college libraries.
Option 1: “search strategies” college libraries
Example 2
I want to find a list of search strategies recommended by college libraries.
Option 1: “search strategies” college libraries
Option 2: “search strategies” inurl:library site:edu
Social Bookmarking
How to remember things that are useful.
ma.gnolia.com
beta.bookmarks.yahoo.com
Questions?
http://www.elevatorup.com/presentation/