I. Why search?

II. Useful strategies and Boolean logic.

a) Formulating queries, delimiting searches.

b) What's online to help you? (see III. below!)

c) Internet Tutorials.

c) What's Boolean? More Boolean. Even More Boolean!

III. Useful URLs:

            How to Choose a Search Engine or Directory

IV. Comparison shopping.

Directories	Search Engine	Metasearch
also called:	also called:	also called:
Topic Based	Keyword Based	Multithreaded
List-based	Spiders	Multisearch
Subject Guides	Robots
Examples: Yahoo! About.com ipl2	Examples: Alta Vista* alltheweb Google*	Examples: Clusty Metacrawler Dogpile Surfwax

V. Other considerations.

a) Wildcards and Truncation.

b) Proximity Operators

 

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