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How to Search Smart

Learn how search engines work and discover advanced tools to improve your search results. Explore topics such as Boolean operators, advanced search tips, and the concept of Googlewhack.

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How to Search Smart

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  1. How to Search Smart

  2. Starter 5 minutes How do search engines work? Write down your thoughts on a mini whiteboard

  3. Learning Objectives • Learning Objectives • Understand how search engines work • Understand some tools to “search smarter” – improve our search results by reducing search results and increasing their relevance. • Lesson Outcomes • To explain how a search engine works. • To try out some advanced tools and see how they improve our search results.

  4. Hands up if you can explain how a search engine works (i.e. what happens when you press the search button?)

  5. How the Google search engine works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNHR6IQJGZs

  6. Class! Summary YES! Google has a big database (index) containing millions of web addresses Each web address has a list of words and the number of times they appear in the site. So when you search the web, you are not actually searching the web. You are searching the google database. You are finding all the websites which contain the word(s) you have searched for.

  7. Hands up if you can explain how a search engine works (i.e. what happens when you press the search button?)

  8. Hands up if you can explain what Boolean Operators do?

  9. “One in a Billion” So we have just seen that there are billions of websites listed on Googles Database. Searching for the 1 website we need can be a difficult job. But there some advanced techniques that we can use….lets learn the tips!

  10. Advanced Search Tips Quotes “ ” OR Minus Sign - Using Boolean Operators You can use Boolean operators… …(special words and symbols)… …to drill down and find the information you need.

  11. What happens if we type CHEDDAR CHEESE into Google? ? Do we get what we want? Or do we get lots of unwanted websites as well?

  12. Normal Google Search Cheddar Cheese Ignores websites that just have the word CHEDDAR Ignores websites that just have the word CHEESE Finds websites containing the words CHEDDAR and CHEESE but not necessarily together Key Words: Cheddar Cheese

  13. Advanced Google Search Key Words: Cheddar OR Cheese Cheddar Cheese Finds websites that just have the word CHEDDAR Finds websites that just have the word CHEESE Finds websites containing the words CHEDDAR and CHEESE but not necessarily together

  14. Advanced Google Search Key Words: Cheddar -Cheese Cheddar Cheese Finds websites that just have the word CHEDDAR Ignores websites that just have the word CHEESE Ignores the sites that have the word CHEDDAR and CHEESE in them

  15. Advanced Google Search Will display the sites that have the phrase CHEDDAR CHEESE. Key Words: “Cheddar Cheese”

  16. Hands up if you can explain what Boolean Operators do?

  17. What is a GOOGLE WHACK! A GOOGLE WHACK… …A Googlewhack is a type of contest for finding a Google search query consisting of exactly two words without quotation marks, that returns exactly one hit.

  18. Activity 2 Complete the ‘Search Smart’ Worksheet

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