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Advance Internet search Techniques

Advance Internet search Techniques. Search techniques. Title Search. Title Search - Retrieves the specified word or phrase in the webpage title which appears in the title bar on the browser. Try a title search!. 3. 3. 3. Title Search Results. NOTE

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Advance Internet search Techniques

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  1. Advance Internet search Techniques

  2. Search techniques

  3. Title Search TitleSearch- Retrieves the specified word or phrase in the webpage title which appears in the title bar on the browser. Try a title search! 3 3 3

  4. Title Search Results NOTE Social studies is in the title of all results’ descriptions; one refers to social studies and the Web. 4 4 4

  5. Finding a Glossary Glossary - An alphabetical list of terms, limited to a special area of knowledge, with accompanying definitions. The terminology of a profession Recommendation - Use the terms in search queries intitle:”special education” AND (“legal terms” AND glossary) 5

  6. Search techniques

  7. Top Level Domains (TLDs) 7 7 7

  8. What's a Domain Name worth? • Tuvalu sold the rights to the .tv TLD to dotTV, a Canadian company which has sold over 50,000 .tv domain names for prices ranging from $100 to $1 million • Tuvalu received $4million per year for ten years For rights to .TV

  9. Why limit the search to a TLD? A result that might not be returned high in the rankings for a search of all TLDs may be in the top results for a domain-limited search. 9

  10. Top Level Domains 10 10 10

  11. .edu Domain-limited Search Top Level Domain-limited Search - Restricts the results to the Top Level Domain stated in the query; for example, .edu, .gov, .info, .net, .org, or .us. REMEMBER Search queries can be limited to any top level domain or country code top level domain. 11 11 11

  12. .edu Domain-limited Search Results NOTE All results are.edu sites. Course syllabi are often returned with .edu limited searches. 12 12 12

  13. k12.va.us Site-limited Search k-12.va.us Site-limited Search - Restrict the results to a Virginia school division website. The .us makes the query a site-limited search. 13 13 13

  14. k12.va.us Site-limited Search Results RECOMMENDATION If a website description has the word resources, view the site. 14 14 14

  15. Search techniques

  16. inurl:Web Address (the URL) URL – Uniform Resource Locator The standard addressing scheme for the Web. 16 16 16

  17. URL-limited Search I admit this search is verging on the geekie! inurl:advancedplacement AND “social studies" URL - A string of characters that describes the type and location of an Internet resource. 17 17 17

  18. URL-limited Search Results NOTE advanced placement is in the URL of all the results. 18 18 18

  19. Search techniques

  20. Link Checking: Why do it? Quality sites link to other quality sites Link popularity search engines Effective search technique Indication of web site credibility (Sometimes!) Wanna see my link to Harvard? 20 20 20

  21. Verifying Site Credibility http://www.gatt.org 21 21 21

  22. Verifying Site Credibility What domain-limited check will verify the real World Trade Organization site? http://www.wto.org 22 22 22

  23. Verifying Site Credibility 23 23 23

  24. Verifying Site Credibility Sitecredibility! 24 24 24

  25. Link Checking Conclusions Tell me again why I am doing link checks! Quality sites link to other quality sites. Sites link to amplify the content of the source page. Link checking is analogous to citation searching. Link checking may be an indication of website credibility. Citations! 25 25 25

  26. Other search parameters

  27. Phrase Search Phrase Search (“double quotes”) – A phrase is more than one keyword. Google searches for the exact phrase; the search engine must return documents with the terms in the exact order. Don’t forget to enclose me in double “quotation marks.” 27 27 27

  28. Phrase Search Results 28 28 28

  29. How Search Engines Determine Relevance 29 29

  30. How Search Engines Determine Relevance 30 30

  31. Country Code Top Level Domains (ccTLD) 31 31 31

  32. FYI Not all nations use the .edu (educational) top level domain. Some use the second level domain .ac. (academic) to designate any academic organization, including museums and research institutions. Germany uses .uni- France and Switzerland do not maintain a second level domain specifically for academic institutions. http://www.uni-leipzig.de/ 32

  33. Web Searching Summary Select your topic Search for a glossary if you are unfamiliar with the subject area Begin with a title field search using the vocabulary of the profession Refine the search with a: Boolean AND/ +; NOT/ - Boolean OR expression 33 33 33

  34. Web Searching Summary Further refine the search to a top level domain or a country code Don’t forget to limit to the .info and .net TDLs Do a k12 inurl search to and a site-limited k12.va.us search Also try specialized searches URL-limited search - Search terms in the Web address Anchor text search – Descriptive text of a link 34

  35. Summation Use more than one search tool. Ask Google MSN Live.com Yahoo! Look at more than the first ten results Review any result that has these words in the description. links resources web sites webliography I am the term used by educators. 35 35 35

  36. Summation To Find Print Sources AND “annotated bibliography” AND “case studies” AND guides AND “literature review” AND “reading lists” AND references AND sources AND “white papers” To Find Web Sites AND links AND resources” AND sites OR “web sites” OR websites AND sources AND webliography 36 36 36

  37. Summation Do link checks to relevant sites to find other useful sites. Yahoo – not Google! Evaluate, evaluate, and evaluate. Bookmark, bookmark, and bookmark. FURL (www.furl.com) Portaportal (www.portaportal.com) Collaborate, share, collaborate. 37 37 37

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