Archimag Internet Search Tips and Strategies .:VirtualSalt Robert Harris Version Date: July 6, 2000 Overview The Internet has an enormous quantity of information, with thousands of newsgroups and billions of web pages. Let me say just a brief word or two on each of these items (and then I will go into detail later). Categories of Information on the Web Before you begin searching, you first need a little understanding about how information is stored and accessed on the Web. Search Tool Types Search tools fall into three main categories. Quick Guide to Choosing a Starting Place Here are some suggestions about where to start a search. Quick TipFor many questions, you can find excellent information by going to Google and typing in four to six words related to your subject. Word Searches With Search Engines As mentioned above, search engines index the exact words found on Web pages. FOREST LOG. There are several ways to type in a word search. Keyword Search. Phrase Search. Boolean Operators. Search Tips 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Skills for Online Searching - ipl2 A+ Research & Writing Learn how search syntax works Search syntax is a set of rules describing how users can query the database being searched. Sophisticated syntax makes for a better search, one where the items retrieved are mostly relevant to the searcher's need and important items are not missed. It allows a user to look for combinations of terms, exclude other terms, look for various forms of a word, include synonyms, search for phrases rather than single words. Boolean logic Boolean logic allows the use of AND, OR and NOT to search for items containing both terms, either term, or a term only if not accompanied by another term. Wildcards and truncation This involves substituting symbols for certain letters of a word so that the search engine will retrieve items with any letter in that spot in the word. Phrase searching Many concepts are represented by a phrase rather than a single word. Proximity Capitalization Field searching All database records are divided up into fields. Index and abstract of a document
Great Books Lists: Lists of Classics, Eastern and Western As seen in A Guide to Oriental Classics, Whole Earth magazine, Winter 2002. (A revised version of the article is available at author Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools site.) This page: Introduction | Western Canon | Eastern and World Canons | Contemporary Canon | Other Lists of Great Books | My Reading Lists | Indexes to these Great Books Lists Introduction Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) What are the Great Books? Western Canon Eastern and World Canons Approaches to the Asian Classics. Contemporary Canon Other Lists of Great Books Other Lists of Great Books - An annotated bibliography of some other sources of Great Books lists, both in books and on the Web My Reading Lists My Reading Lists (Ancient Near East, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, China, Middle Ages) Indexes to these Great Books Lists
Thesaurus.com | Free Online Thesaurus of Synonyms and Antonyms The University of South Carolina Beaufort So, you're still getting those 1,670,000+ responses to your search queries on the Web, and you're still too busy to do anything about it, like reading the lengthy, and sometimes confusing, "help" screens to find out how to improve your searching techniques. Look no further! Real help is here, in the USCB Library's BARE BONES Tutorial. You can zip through these lessons in no time, any time. The information contained in the following lessons is truly "bare bones," designed to get you started in the right direction with a minimum of time and effort. Lesson 1: Search Engines: a Definition Lesson 2: Metasearchers: a Definition Lesson 3: Subject Directories: a Definition Lesson 4: Library Gateways and Specialized Databases: a Definition Lesson 5: Evaluating Web Pages Lesson 6: Creating a Search Strategy Lesson 7: Basic Search Tips Lesson 8: Searching with Boolean Logic and Proximity Operators Lesson 9: Field Searching Lesson 10: Troubleshooting Lesson 11: Ask Search Engine: A Closer Look User Agreement
Live Training – Search Education – Google With these webinars, you can improve your own search skills and learn how to bring search literacy to your school. Browse the archive of past trainings, and make sure to follow us on Google+ to stay up to speed on the latest tips and trainings from Google. Even better search results: Getting to know Google search for education Google makes it simple to find the information you need, but there are strategies for finding higher quality sources even more easily. Power searching: Advanced Google search for education When you realize that the information you want will be a presentation or PDF, what can you do? Beyond the First Five Links Looking for new ways to motivate students to look beyond the first five links in a search engine? Modern search literacy: Leveraging literacies to get the most from popular tools Once you've run your search, how do you interpret your results for the highest impact? Sensemaking: Organizing information to gain better understanding Writing Successful Queries Pt.
The Philosophy Pages T he Philosophy Pages is an online library of philosophy and theology texts, including selected writings of philosophers from anicent times to the contemporary period, including Plato, Aristotle, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Pythagoras, amongst many others. The site has been active since 2006 and is currently undergoing redesign work. If you would like to contribute to the site or have any questions, email philosophy@davemckay.co.uk . Facebook Page - Visit the Philosophy page on Facebook ! Anaximander - Surviving Fragments. Aristotle - Collected Works. Bertrand Russell - Selected Writings. Chinese Classics - The Four Books, Five Classics and the Classics of Military Science. David Hume - Complete Writings, including posthumous works. Diogenes of Sinope - Biography from Diogenes Laërtius’ “Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers”. Ralph Waldo Emerson - Complete Works in twelve volumes. Epicurus - Surviving Fragments, Letters and Documents. Heraclitus - Surviving Fragments.
Deep Web From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Deep Web) Deep Web may refer to: WebSummarizer Web Summarizer is a web-based application specializing in the automatic summarization and visualization of web pages, documents and plain text. WikiSummarizer, a module of WebSummarizer, is a web-based application specializing in the automatic summarization of Wikipedia articles. An integral part of WikiSummarizer is the Wikipedia Knowledge Base. Summaries and visualizations are powerful and persuasive ways of appealing to the imagination and of stimulating curiosity and understanding. Automatic summarization is a computer program that creates a shortened text based on the original information. WebSummarizer automatically summarizes content from web pages and documents. To avoid information overload, there are up to 10 keywords per summary. WebSummarizer provides summaries in English, French, German and Spanish. WikiSummarizer works with the English version of Wikipedia. Visual presentation is at the heart of good communication and the key to speeding up learning. In a word: yes.