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Searching the Internet

Discover the best search tools for various purposes, including academic research, movie selection, shopping, and software downloads. Learn essential search techniques like using quotes, wildcards, file types, and specific site searches to optimize your search results. Enhance your online searching skills with advanced tips and tricks for efficient information retrieval.

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Searching the Internet

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  1. Searching the Internet

  2. What is the best search tool?

  3. Choose your search tool • Book • Movie Theatre • Journal Article • Shopping • Software • University Program • Dictionary, Terminology • Instructional Video • (Amazon.com) • http://www.blockbuster.com & • http://movies.aol.com/ • ERIC • Ebay • Amazon • Yahoo Directory • Wikipedia & • http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ • Sunburst & United Streaming

  4. Examples • http://www.zillow.com

  5. Search Tips

  6. and & or ignored by google California OR Arizona California AND Arizona “Tall woman” + “Short Man” Use the - sign to exclude Jaguar -car

  7. Use quotes • Be specific ... Computer applications in high school math teaching

  8. Try alternative word orders • “Best ways to prepare for a job interview” OR “How to prepare for a job interview”

  9. Use important words only • The way Google search works is to take what you search for and match it with keywords in online content. • Don’t use: Where can I find a Chinese restaurant that delivers. • Instead try: Chinese restaurants nearby. • Or: Chinese restaurants near me.

  10. Use the tabs

  11. related: • will list web pages that are "similar" to a specified web page • Related:amazon.com • related:www.starfall.com

  12. Wildcards • "don't ask country * ask" • “Isaac Newton discovered *”

  13. Use a colon to search specific sites • Rezaei site:www.csulb.edu

  14. File Type • "First amendment" filetype:ppt

  15. Adobe Portable Document Format (pdf) • Adobe PostScript (ps) • Lotus 1-2-3 (wk1, wk2, wk3, wk4, wk5, wki, wks, wku) • Lotus WordPro (lwp) • MacWrite (mw) • Microsoft Excel (xls) • Microsoft PowerPoint (ppt) • Microsoft Word (doc) • Microsoft Works (wks, wps, wdb) • Microsoft Write (wri) • Rich Text Format (rtf) • Shockwave Flash (swf) • Text (ans, txt)

  16. intitle: global warming • Intitle: Google will restrict the results to documents containing that word in the title.

  17. Screen Capture JING Command+Shift+3: takes a screenshot of the full screen (or screens if multiple monitors), and save it as a file to the desktop Command+Shift+4: brings up a selection box so you can specify an area to take a screenshot of, then save it as a file to the desktop Command+Shift+4, then spacebar, then click a window:takes a screenshot of a window only and saves it as a file to the 

  18. Searching The Library

  19. Click on Database by Topic

  20. Choose Eric Database

  21. Input your BeachBoard ID and Password

  22. Use Advanced Serach

  23. Input your search Criteria

  24. The results would be something like these

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