Searching the Internet

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

27. Get the Full Text

28. 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