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Searching the web

Searching the web. How to teach the Search Process. 5 facts you need to know about search engines. One search engine can’t do it all. There is an invisible Web that the search engines can’t penetrate. Search engines can’t read your mind.

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Searching the web

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  1. Searching the web How to teach the Search Process

  2. 5 facts you need to know about search engines • One search engine can’t do it all. • There is an invisible Web that the search engines can’t penetrate. • Search engines can’t read your mind. • Search engines do not evaluate the content on a Web site. • One search engine can’t search the entire Web. There are over 1000 search engines on the internet, although Google is the one used by the majority of people. While Google is still the best search engine for locating information, it’s not the best at presenting the results.

  3. Go Beyond basic google

  4. Synonym Search (“~”) immediately in front of your search term. • Word definition (define: ) • Google alerts http://www.google.com/alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results based on your choice of query or topic. • Google reader http://www.google.com/reader constantly checks your favourite news sites and blogs for new content and posts them to one easy page. • Google Custom Search Engine or Google Coop http://www.google.com/coop/cse can be used to create a search engine that includes a Web site or a collection of Web sites. (“How to set up a Google search Engine” on YouTube.) • A similar tool is Rollyohttp://www.rollyo.com

  5. Use Expert Help • Mahalohttp://www.mahalo.com attempts to harness the intelligence of human powered search results. It combines computer algorithms and human researchers to look up a search query. • Weblinksprovides access to thousands of safe curriculum-based web sites that have been selected by teachers. The sites are automatically uploaded to the OLIVER catalogue once a month. Simply type your search term into OLIVER and all results (including the Weblinks sites) will be displayed. • Ask Kids http://www.askkids.com provides safe searches for young children.

  6. Use visual search engines • Search-Cube http://www.search-cube.com is a visual search engine that presents web results in a unique, three-dimensional cube interface. • Quinturahttp://www.quintura.com presents the results as a visual map (cloud) of tags related to your search term.

  7. Use a search engine with a good results Page • Ask.com http://www.ask.com formerly known as Ask Jeeves, has been redesigned and is better than ever. It has a very clean design on the opening search page.

  8. Browse scholarly articles and journals • Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com provides a simple way to search for scholarly literature. • Another good site is Intutehttp://intute.ac.uk a free online service providing access to education and research resources. The service is created by a network of UK universities and partners. • For Science try Scirushttp://www.scirus.com/srsapp/

  9. Search the invisible web

  10. There are parts of the Web that search engines can’t access; they are typically non html pages such as Adobe PDF files, multimedia, password protected pages, and PPT files. This information is generally inaccessible to the software spiders and crawlers that create search engine databases. • Infominehttp://infomine.ucr.edu

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