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1 Searching the Internet Created for School District 45, DuPage County

2 Searching the Internet is not Surfing the Internet!

3 “Not all the information that exists in the world is on the Internet AND Not all the information on the Internet is accurate” (Kotsch 2004). Search Smart…

4 An hour on the web might not answer a question that you could find in a few minutes by using a reference book. Use the best resource for the job!

5 Search Strategies  How do you find what you need?  Libraries and department stores are planned.  But, no one is in charge of organizing the Internet.  So….well prepared searches will eliminate useless hits and wasted time.

6 Search Strategies  Use keywords  Be specific – you’ll get better results  Use correct spelling  Punctuation doesn’t matter  However “” quotation marks do matter (see later)  Keep it simple  Describe what you need in as few words as possible  Google is limited to 10 words, anything after 10 is ignored  Use words that are most likely to appear on the website  “headache” instead of “my head hurts”  Some websites allow the use of  Wildcard searches (see next few slides)  Boolean operators (see next few slides)

7 Phrase Search (“”)  Using quotation marks will bring back the exact phrase you are searching  Be careful when using quotation marks  “Robert Lee” will miss anything with Robert E Lee Search Strategies Search Strategies

8 The minus sign (-)  Used immediately before a word will exclude it from your results  Bears –Chicago  Don’t confuse the minus sign (-) with a hyphen (-)  Anti-virus software Search Strategies Search Strategies

9 Search within a specific website  site:edu (colleges & universities)  site:gov (government agencies)  site:org (organizations)  Use this to limit your search results to certain types of websites Search Strategies Search Strategies

10 Fill in the blanks (*)  Also called the Wildcard search (see later)  The * is used to replace any unknown words in the search phrase  Coca-Cola was invented in * by *  Great to use when you only know part of a song title or the lyrics Search Strategies Search Strategies

11 Fill in the blanks (*) Search Strategies Search Strategies

12 Wildcard Searches (*)  A special symbol (*) (Shift+8) which allows you to search for several words that begin the same but may have different endings. Educat* Educator Educate Education Educational Google uses the * for the “Fill in the blank search”

13 Boolean Operators  Words such as AND, OR, and NOT that are used to combine terms to broaden or narrow the results of a search.

14 Broaden a search (OR)  Using the word or will broaden a search  Use or if two words may be used interchangeably colleges or universities collegesuniversities

15 Narrow a search (AND)  Using and will only provide hits for sites which have BOTH of the words. heart and disease

16 Narrow a search (NOT)  Using not narrows the search by telling the search engine to exclude certain words  You can also use a minus sign - schools not middle schools -middle

17 Results…  The best results will appear on the first page or two of hits  No two search engines are alike. Try another search engine, or rephrase your keywords to get better results.

18 Search Engines And many others….

19 Advanced Search Strategies define Provides a definition of a word define:abundent related Finds pages related to or similar to the selected site related:www.wikipedia.com filetype Searches for a particular kind of file  (ppt) PowerPoint  (doc) Word filetype:doc (you Might use)

20 Let’s Practice Together Search Term # of Results dogs collie border collie “border collie” “border collie” site:org “border collie” site:org -wikipedia “border collie” site:org –wikipedia rescue “border collie” site:org –wikipedia “rescue”

21 Class Activity “The Game” (Watkins 2006, 2008)  See “The Google Game” Handout on the Internet Safety Page

22 Works Cited  Google search basics: Basic search help http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=e n&answer=134479 http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=e n&answer=134479 http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=e n&answer=134479  Google search basics: More search help http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answ er=136861 http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answ er=136861 http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answ er=136861  Kotsch. (2004) Preparing to Search the Internet. http://www.libraryinstruction.com/SearchingtheInternet.ppt http://www.libraryinstruction.com/SearchingtheInternet.ppt  Watkins, K. (2008). Return of the Google game. School Library Journal, 54 (5), 46-48. http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6555545.html http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6555545.html  Watkins, K. (2006). The Google game. School Library Journal, 52 (1), 52-54. http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6296500.html http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6296500.html


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