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If you have a general idea of the subject in which you're interested, but are not sure exactly what you're looking for, a directory is a great place to start. Directories like Yahoo! use human editors to organize information in broad categories, such as finance, sports, or travel. Think of them as giant card catalogs. By starting with these categories and then moving down through subcategories, you can narrow your search until you find the information you need. If you already know exactly what you're looking for, a search engine is the best way to find it. Search engines use keywords or phrases you choose to determine which web pages have relevant information. Think of a search engine as an index for the web. The most relevant results appear at the top of the screen. Click the results link to go directly to the site listed.
READING THE RESULTS
Search engines put the most relevant results first, so if what you want is not in the top listings, try again with more specific keywords. Or, narrow your search by adding more keywords. Google returns only pages containing all the keywords you use, so adding more keywords eliminates less relevant pages. To get more results, use more general keywords or include fewer search terms. Google's "cached" link shows you a snapshot of a web page so you can see it even if the actual site is not accessible. On cached pages, your keywords are highlighted to make them easier to find. Seeing where your keywords appear on a web page prior to clicking a result link can save you time. That's why Google displays an excerpt from each returned result page showing your query terms in bold type. These snippets let you see the context in which your search terms appear on the page, so you can determine if the site is worth visiting. To find more pages like a particular result, click on the "Similar Pages" link. This service automatically scouts the web for pages with content related to the link you select. To begin your search, type www.google.com into your browser's "Address" field and hit enter.
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CHOOSING KEYWORDS
For the best results from a search engine, it's important to choose your keywords wisely. Keep these tips in mind: Try the obvious first. If you're looking for information on Demecser, enter "Demecser" rather than "painters". Use words likely to appear on a site with the information you want. "Demecser hungarien town" gets better results.
Search Engines
Internet search engines are a big part of how we find things online. You can get the most out of them by learning how they work, and how to use them quickly and effectively. The challenge is to ask your question the right way, so that you don’t end up overwhelmed with too many search results, underwhelmed with too few, or simply unable to locate the material that you need. As with most skills, practice makes perfect! Before doing a search, it’s important to define your topic as completely and succinctly as possible. Write down exactly what information you’re looking for, why you’re looking for it, and what you’re not looking for. This will help you to discover the best keywords for your search.
Keywords
Search engines don’t read sentences the way people do: instead, they look for the key words in your query in the websites they search. In other words, you’re not asking a search engine a question, you’re asking it to look for websites where those words appear. In order to use a search engine or database effectively, therefore, you need to be able to choose the best combination of key words. Most search engines work best if you provide them with several keywords. So how do you determine which keywords will work best? Think about what you’re searching to determine the essential key words. For instance, if you’re just looking for a recipe for peanut butter cookies, you can write peanut butter cookie recipe. But if you’re looking for a recipe that doesn’t use flour, you can write peanut butter cookie recipe flourless (the order of the words doesn’t matter) and if you want a vegan recipe you can write peanut butter cookie recipe flourless vegan. If you want to only see results that include a particular word, put that word in quotes: so if you write peanut butter cookie recipe “vegan” you will only get results that include the word “vegan.” Now you have your keywords. How do you enter them into the search engine?
Use of Phrases
Your most powerful keyword combination is the phrase. Phrases are combinations of two or more words that must be found in the documents you’re searching for in the EXACT order shown. You enter a phrase - such as “peanut butter” - into a search engine, within quotation marks. Most search engines allow you to use quotation marks or square brackets to do a phrase search as in “peanut butter” or [peanut butter]. Make sure your phrase doesn’t suggest the answer to your question: “cats better than dogs” will get you more results that say cats are better than dogs, and “dogs better than cats” will do the reverse. People who spread misinformation sometimes flood the internet with results for a particular phrase, so that people searching for it will only see their point of view. If someone tells you to search a phrase like “aliens built the pyramids”, use a more general phrase like “who built pyramids” instead.
Limiting your search
If you find that you’re getting results that aren’t what you’re looking for, you can use a minus sign to exclude results that include a certain word or phrase. So if you want recipes that use peanut butter but aren’t cookie recipes, you could use “peanut butter” recipe –cookie (the minus sign has to be directly before the word you want excluded, with no space in between). You can also limit your search by type, time or country. Most search engines have tabs at the top that let you choose between websites, images, videos, news stories, and so on. Many also have advanced search tools that let you limit your search to just one country, a certain time (the last day, week, month, year, or a range you specify).
Searching within a site
If there’s a particular site that you know is reliable, most search engines will let you limit your search to just them. Just add the web address at the end of your search string, like this: peanut butter cookie recipe flourless natural site:www.epicurious.com. (Make sure not to put a space between site: and the web address). For large or popular sites you can just add the name of the site, like peanut butter Wikipedia. You can also use a custom search that has been made to search just some websites. MediaSmarts has created two custom searches that you can use:
Bit.ly/science-search searches these science sites:
Science News
Science Daily
Nature
Canadian Geographic
Scientific American
New Scientist
Science
Bit.ly/news-search searches these news sites:
The Globe and Mail
American Press
Reuters
Bloomberg Canada
BBC
The Washington Post
The Wall Street Journal
The New York Times
Canadian Press
National Post
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