How to Choose the Right Words for Best Search Results

Digital Tools Diane T. Sands Dear Savvy Searcher, My students keep wanting to enter their entire research question into the search bar. Frustrated Educator Dear Frustrated, I had a particular conversation with a student a while back. “But how do I know what the important words are?” She had a point, of course. Based on how Google ranks search results, typing in a question will be more likely to bring back pages with a question for a title. Explaining how to distinguish the important words has sometimes proven challenging with younger students. Nouns frequently make good search terms, so students can start by drawing the people, places, and things in their questions. The searchable parts of this picture are [George Washington diary]. Compare the results: From an academic standpoint, the second result brought back highly authoritative sources that are specifically about diaries, rather than other books. Verbs and adjectives can also help in many cases. Related

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