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How to Choose a Search Tool

How to Choose a Search Tool

Search - Search for Readable Results Yahoo! Search Engine & Directory - History, David Filo, Jerry Yang Yahoo is the oldest and best directory search site. David Filo and Jerry Yang were Ph.D. candidates in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University when they started Yahoo to keep track of the web sites they were interested in. By 1994 their site was being used by thousands of users who needed a way to find content on the Internet, and so they turned it into a general purpose index for anyone that wanted to use it. Yahoo is sometimes said to stand for "Yet Another Hierarchical Official Oracle", but Filo and Yang say that they chose the name because they consider themselves to be Yahoos, named after the uncivilized half-animals in Jonathon Swift's classic book Gulliver's Travels. The well designed and continually evolving Yahoo directory structure is now managed by hundreds of people. Key Yahoo search features are described below: Other Yahoo search tips are described below: Search narrowing. History.

Joongel, Internet The Easy Way Database - What Is A Library Database? - Enoch Pratt Free Library What is a library database? Library databases contain information from published works.Examples: Magazine and newspaper articles,encyclopedias and other reference books.Library databases are searchable.By Keywords, Subject, Author, Magazine Title, Date, etc.Library databases provide citation information.Author, if availableTitle of ArticlePublication (Title of Magazine, Newspaper, or Reference Book)PublisherDate of PublicationLibrary databases often contain full-text articles.You can print or email an entire article.There are different kinds of library databasesFor specific topics. Examples: Biography Resource Center , New Book of Popular ScienceFor general topics Examples: ProQuest, World Book OnlineLibrary databases are paid for by taxpayer dollars. How is a library database different from a website? Questions to ask about ANY information: Currency: How recent is the information, and when was it last updated? Any source, whether a library database or website, can have good information.

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100 Extensive University Libraries from Around the World that Anyone Can Access Universities house an enormous amount of information and their libraries are often the center of it all. You don't have to be affiliated with any university to take advantage of some of what they have to offer. From digital archives, to religious studies, to national libraries, these university libraries from around the world have plenty of information for you. Digital Libraries Capturing images of manuscripts, art, and artifacts, digital libraries are an excellent way of both preserving the past and sharing it with everyone. Harvard University Library. International Digital Libraries These digital libraries either have a focus on a culture other than that of the United States or are housed in another country. The Digital South Asia Library. Texts These libraries offer books or texts for you to read online and free of charge. Universal Digital Library. Medical Libraries These libraries offer medical information for both the professional and the lay person. Welch Medical Library. Legal Libraries

Learning & education in the Google Cloud Operators and more search help - Web Search Help You can use symbols or words in your search to make your search results more precise. Google Search usually ignores punctuation that isn’t part of a search operator. Don’t put spaces between the symbol or word and your search term. A search for site:nytimes.com will work, but site: nytimes.com won’t. Refine image searches Overall Advanced Search Go to Advanced Image Search. Search for an exact image size Right after the word you're looking for, add the text imagesize:widthxheight. Example: imagesize:500x400 Common search techniques Search social media Put @ in front of a word to search social media. Search for a price Put $ in front of a number. Search hashtags Put # in front of a word. Exclude words from your search Put - in front of a word you want to leave out. Search for an exact match Put a word or phrase inside quotes. Search within a range of numbers Put .. between two numbers. Combine searches Put "OR" between each search query. Search for a specific site Search for related sites

Six Great Ways to Search the Web Six Great Ways to Search the Web Sure everyone knows all about the search engines like Google, Yahoo and now Microsoft's new Bing. But there are numerous other ways to find information on the Internet. Here are six great ways to search for exactly what you need on the Internet. Search Engines The search engines are the first place everyone heads to and they have become household names. Bing – Microsoft's new search engine that will give different results than Google because of the 'decision algorithm' it uses. A fairly lengthy and complete list of search engines and more can be found at Wikipedia's List of Search Engines page. Another area of search engines are the metasearch engines. Subject Directories If you have a specific piece of information you are looking for and it fits neatly into a particular category this is a good place to start. Wikipedia's List of Web Directories Searchable Databases Not everything on the web is placed so that it's easy to find. Social Networking

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