How do you find relevant information on the web related to your task?

Search Engines and Boolean Operators! Woot!

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 Searching the Web is easy as 1,2,3

  1. The Visible Web is indexed
  2. You have access to the Visible Web though search engines such as GOOGLE, yahoo, bing, explorer, etc.
  3. If you know the language of search engines you can effectively (and quickly) find the information you are looking for.

Tips for Searching the Web

​DO...

DO NOT...
  • Use specific key words
  • Use Boolean Operators (AND, OR, NOT)
  • Connect OR with parenthesis 
  • Connect multi-word phrases together with quotation marks
  • The minus sign is the same as NOT

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  • Type a question in the search bar
  • Type a question in the search bar
  • TYPE A QUESTION IN THE SEARCH BAR
  • TYPE A QUESTION IN THE SEARCH BAR
Video Source: ​https://vimeo.com/228029235
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Video Source: ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfvDPpnV0Pg&t=189s
Still unsure about Boolean Operators?

Check out Rockwell Schrock's
Boolean Machine.
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​Please note that "NOT" is the same as using a minus sign... in most search engines the minus sign works better.