Web searching

Next

Introduction

Quality control

Quality control (cont'd)

Subject directories

Subject directories (cont'd)

Search engines (cont'd)

Effective searching

Planning a search

Planning a search (cont'd)

Planning a search (cont'd)

Planning a search (cont'd)

Using the tools

Know the engines

15 of 19

Relevance ranking

Keep track of your results

Further information

Safe surfing

Common methods

Enclose phrases in quotes
Think about synonyms

The following are less popular than they used to be:

Put a + before all required words; a - before excluded words
Capitalize proper nouns to avoid their occurrence as ordinary nouns
Use truncation marks (usually * or ?)

Start

Next

Bacon home page

Last modified: Wed, 2007 Mar 7 13:41:03

Slide show generated from websearch.html by Weasel 2007 Mar 7