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Enhance Your Online Searches: Choosing the Best Search Tools and Techniques

Discover effective strategies for maximizing your online search results. This guide explores various search tools available, including those for academic articles, movies, shopping, and dictionaries. Learn to refine your searches using keywords, Boolean operators, and file types to achieve more relevant and precise results. We cover platforms like Google, ERIC, and specialized databases to help you effectively navigate information resources. Whether searching for the latest trends or academic papers, optimize your approach to find exactly what you need.

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Enhance Your Online Searches: Choosing the Best Search Tools and Techniques

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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. Dictionary • http://www.thefreedictionary.com • http://www.m-w.com/ • Reliability

  6. Auto Info • http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/index.cfm • NHTSA information on recalls, TSB’s, defects, etc • http://www.smogcheck.ca.gov • Consumer website that helps explain Smog Inspection Report • http://www.howstuffworks.com/ • Explains how items (stuff) work • http://www.kbb.com/ • New and used vehicle pricing (specific to geographic location) • http://www.fueleconomy.gov/ • Vehicle fuel economy ratings • http://www.safercar.gov/ • Vehicle safety ratings • http://www.nhtsa.gov/ • National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration • http://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles • Environmental vehicles ratings • http://www.eere.energy.gov/afdc/ • Alternative fuel, fueling station infrastructure

  7. Limiting The Search • Be specific ... Computer applications in high school math teaching

  8. and & or ignored by google California OR Denver California AND Denver expensive car + red chair Use the - sign to exclude disney -california -land -movie -tv

  9. 10 Keywords Limit • Google ignores “stop words” • a, about, an, and, are, as, at, be, by, from, how, i, in, is, it, of, on, or, that, the, this, to, we, what, when, where, which, with

  10. Search Tips

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

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

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

  14. 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)

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

  16. Domain=Site psychology site:compsychology site:edu textbook site:www.csulb.edu

  17. inurl: • Google will restrict the results to documents containing that word in the url

  18. Calculator • (5+1)**2 • 3^20 • sqrt(16)

  19. Unit conversion • half a cup in teaspoons • two pounds in kilograms • 160 pounds * 4000 feet in Calories

  20. CSULB library

  21. Get the Full Text

  22. 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 

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