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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.

Search Engine Showdown: The Users' Guide to Web Searching Librarian's Ultimate Guide to Search Engines - DegreeTutor.com Librarians were the ultimate search engines before the web took over. Librarians are trusted, credible sources finding and delivering information as they witness, search, organize, and catalog information. Online research and the power of the web have made information only fingertips away from all of us, but the taxonomies and standards used for search will impact how people learn online for years to come. Below are some of the things librarians understand about search - and things that anyone doing online research can benefit from. History of Search Engines While there are many search engines, about 80 to 90 percent of the search market belongs to just a few including Google, Bing, and MSN. Web 2.0 Search Engines These are the new breed - they're the tip of the iceberg of advanced search applications for what is known as the semantic web. Most of these new engines are works in progress that need a few generations of revisions. Glossary: Search Engine + Related Refining Search Queries

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. They are very short and succinct; each can be read in a few minutes. 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 User Agreement

Ten Tips for Smarter Google Searches > Tip #1: Use the Correct Methodology Most people use Google in a very inefficient and often ineffective manner. If all you do is enter a few keywords and click the search button, you're one of those users who don't get as much out of Google as you could. In this article, Google expert Michael Miller shows you how to search smarter — and more effectively. Google is a very sophisticated search engine, but most users don’t use its full power. There is a better way to search—one that generates a smaller, more targeted list of results. Whether you’re conducting a basic or advanced Google search, there is a certain methodology you should employ. While there are many different (and equally valid) approaches to web searching, I guarantee that this particular approach will generate excellent results. Start by thinking about what you want to find. In other words, it pays to think before you search—and to continue to refine your search after you obtain the initial results.

How to Properly Research Online (and Not Embarrass Yourself with the Results) Warning: if you are going to argue a point about politics, medicine, animal care, or gun control, then you better take the time to make your argument legit. Spending 10 seconds with Google and copy-pasting wikipedia links doesn't cut it. The standard for an intelligent argument is Legitimate research is called RE-search for a reason: patient repetition and careful filtering is what will win the day. There are over 86 billion web pages published, and most of those pages are not worth quoting. If you are a student, or if you are seeking serious medical, professional, or historical information, definitely heed these 8 suggested steps to researching online:

Find Facts Using Advanced Search Queries If you're trying to obtain simple facts from Google, but you don't get direct answers (like for Japan population), use another strategy. Try to think how would you formulate a statement that contains the answer to your question. Instead of asking "When did Yahoo buy Flickr?", think that a page that contains a statement that starts with "Yahoo bought Flickr in" should answer your question. Step 1 - use quotesSearch for "Yahoo bought Flickr in" and you'll actually get the answer in the snippets. That's great, but what if you want to find more complex information, like Yahoo's acquisitions from 2005 and their dates? But how do you know that your template is good enough? If you want to find some Yahoo acquisitions over the years, try the special syntax for intervals. Of course, you'll say that a Wikipedia article about Yahoo contains all these acquisitions, but this was just an example.

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. The knowledge base contains summaries of over 3 million Wikipedia articles and provides about 5 million keywords for instant access, discovery, visualization and downloading. 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.

Chercher l'aiguille ... dans le silo à grain (épisode 1) C'est d'habitude dans une botte de foin qu'il faut s'en aller "chercher l'aiguille" au petit jeu de la recherche di'nformation. Tâche déjà suffisamment ardue mais pour laquelle on savait jusqu'ici comment s'orienter initialement selon différents critères : si l'aiguille en question était plutôt une image, on se tournait vers des bottes de foin (moteurs de recherche) d'image, si c'était une actualité, des bottes de foin d'actualité, etc etc. Or voici que depuis peu la botte de foin patiemment localisée par les moissonneurs que nous sommes, se dissout ou plus exactement retourne à l'état de champ, un champ dont on n'aura vraissemblablement plus la possibilité de connaître la configuration. Reprenons donc les choses dans l'ordre : Google "croise", "mixe" l'ensemble de ses silos (images, blogs, actus, etc) en un seul et il n'est d'ailleurs pas le seul ni le premier à le faire comme le rappelle ce billet de Read/WriteWeb "First, we've eliminated search silos on Technorati.

Web search query Types[edit] There are four broad categories that cover most web search queries:[1] Informational queries – Queries that cover a broad topic (e.g., colorado or trucks) for which there may be thousands of relevant results.Navigational queries – Queries that seek a single website or web page of a single entity (e.g., youtube or delta air lines).Transactional queries – Queries that reflect the intent of the user to perform a particular action, like purchasing a car or downloading a screen saver. Search engines often support a fourth type of query that is used far less frequently: Connectivity queries – Queries that report on the connectivity of the indexed web graph (e.g., Which links point to this URL?, and How many pages are indexed from this domain name?). Characteristics[edit] A study of the same Excite query logs revealed that 19% of the queries contained a geographic term (e.g., place names, zip codes, geographic features, etc.).[4] Structured queries[edit] See also[edit] References[edit]

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