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Internet Search Strategies

Internet Search Strategies. Preparing Your Keyword Search. Step1: Describe What Do You Want To Find Using one or two sentences, state what you want to find on the Internet. For example: What are the popular features to look for when purchasing a skateboard?. Step 2: Identify Keywords.

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Internet Search Strategies

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  1. Internet Search Strategies Preparing Your Keyword Search

  2. Step1: Describe What Do You Want To Find Using one or two sentences, state what you want to find on the Internet. For example: • What are the popular features to look for when purchasing a skateboard?

  3. Step 2: Identify Keywords Underline the main concepts in the sentence. • What are the popularfeatures to look for when purchasing a skateboard?

  4. Step 3: Select Synonyms and Variant Word Forms List synonyms, alternate spellings, and variant word forms of each keyword. • popular common favorite • features options characteristics • buying selecting choosing

  5. Step 4: Combine Synonyms, Keywords & Variant Word Forms Combine synonyms with Boolean OR Place parentheses around OR statements. • (popular or common or favorite) • (features or options or characteristics) • (buying or selecting or choosing)

  6. Step 5: Combine keywords with Boolean AND • (popular or common or favorite) and • (features or options or characteristics) and • (buying or selecting or choosing) and • skateboards

  7. Step 6: Check Your Spelling • Search engines return websites with words that match your keywords. • If you misspell a keyword, your results will contain websites where that word is also misspelled.

  8. Step 7: Write Your Own Keyword Search!

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