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Web Search Strategies

Web Search Strategies. Where do I find it?. Created by Connie Campbell. Finding it. Directories or Search Engines. Directories … Maintained by humans General or Subject Related Yahoo …General Elementary Educational Internet Projects …Subject Related. Search Engines …

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Web Search Strategies

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  1. Web Search Strategies Where do I find it? Created by Connie Campbell

  2. Finding it... Directories or Search Engines • Directories… • Maintained by humans • General or Subject Related • Yahoo…General • Elementary Educational Internet Projects…Subject Related • Search Engines… • Maintained by computer program • that searches the web and collects • data • More inclusive than directory • Keyword searchable

  3. Before you search... • Identify concepts within your topic • Identify terms related to those concepts • Consider synonyms and variations of those terms

  4. Choose your search engine • Size of the database • Search features • Result list features • Online help screens

  5. Alta Vista • Size: 31 million URL’s • Simple and advanced searches (Boolean and truncation) • Result ranked by relevancy • Online instructions Altavistahttp://altavista.digital.com/

  6. Alta Vista • Boolean and truncation) • Result ranked by relevancy • Online instructions Altavistahttp://altavista.digital.com/

  7. Boolean Searching Boolean (boo le an) Searching allows you to help refine your search so you can get better results using three basic operators: AND, OR, and NOT.

  8. Science & Lesson Plans Boolean Searching and Returns pages with both terms.

  9. Science or Lesson Plans Boolean Searching or Returns pages with either terms.

  10. Science not Lesson Plans Boolean Searching not Returns pages with one term but not the other.

  11. Truncation Searching Truncation (trunka shun) searching allows you to help refine your search using the wildcard * symbol. It provides you the ability to enter part of a word to make sure you retrieve documents that contain all parts of that word. Example: teach* will yield teach, teacher, teaching

  12. Excite • Size: 50 million URL’s • Only Simple options at first screen • Result ranked by relevancy • Allows Boolean searches Excitehttp://www.excite.com/

  13. Lycos • Allowssearching for Sounds, Pictures, the Top 5% (their opinion), books, and personal homepages. • Result ranked by 10, 15, 20, 30 or 40 per page. • Provides Boolean searches Lycoshttp://www.lycos.com/

  14. Infoseek • Size: 50 million URL’s • Provides use of double quotations ("-") around words that must be searched together or capitalize to find a phrase. • Refines a search with a "Search only these results" option. Infoseekhttp://www.infoseek.com/

  15. HotBot • Size: 50 million URL’s • Provides for keyword search by "all the words", "any of the words", "exact phrase", "the person", "links to this URL" and "Boolean expression". • Refines advanced queries, like "Date" - • which limits your search to "last week", "last 2 weeks, "last month”. HotBothttp://www.hotbot.com/

  16. Parallel Web Search Engines Parallel Web Search Engines are search engines that do not maintain their own database, but search other search engines to bring results.

  17. Parallel Web Search Engines Dogpile http://www.dogpile.com Mammahttp://www.mamma.com Ask Jeeveshttp://www.askjeeves.com Metacrawlerhttp://www.metacrawler.com All 4 Onehttp://www.all4one.com

  18. Children's Search Engines These search engines are designed especially for children: Yahooligans http://www.yahooligans.com Ask Jeeves for Kids http://www.ajkids.com

  19. Specialized Search Engines • Translate Speech Alta Vista Translator • http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/translate?

  20. Specialized Search Engines Software Search Engines Filezhttp://www.filez.com Cnethttp://cnet.com/cdoor/0,238,1017,00.html?sn.cn.fd.lftnav.Downloads Softseekhttp://www.softseek.com Shareware http://www.shareware.com

  21. . . Specialized Search Engines Images and Sounds Search Engines Lycos Multimedia select pictures or sounds http://www.lycos.com/lycosmedia.html Filez Selection made at drop down screen http://www.filez.com Search: Windows-All Graphics Wav

  22. Specialized Search Engines Visit Dave’s Virtual Library with links to an endless variety of search engines and online reference tools.

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