Saturday, December 1, 2007

Searching the Web

When searching the web for a specific topic, one may always run into problems. Many times you can get a million responses, but only a quarter of them are actually helpful. Search tips can help you navigate through the web for efficiently and essentially save you alot of time. Many times, you are required to use specific commands to narrow your search. Most search engines except many of the symbols required, such as +, -, "", and OR. If you don't include one of these symbols, the search engine will pull up any website that contains any of the words within your search.
For example, I am researching about World War II. If I just type World War II into the search engine, it will pull up any website that has the words "world," "war," and "II" in them. This poses a problem because many of the time those websites are useless. If you include "World War II" in quotes, it will automatically narrow down your search because it will only pull up the websites that have the phrase in it.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

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Unknown said...

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