Basic Internet Search Strategies

presented by Lee Welch

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 – University at Albany

http://library.albany.edu/internet/choose.html

IV. Comparison shopping.

Topic Based	Keyword Based	Metasearch Function
also called:	also called:	also called:
Directories	Search Engine	Multithreaded
List-based	Spiders	Multisearch
Subject Guides	Robots
Examples: Yahoo! Look Smart Librarian’s Index	Examples: Alta Vista alltheweb Google*	Examples: Metacrawler Ixquick Fast Seeks

V. Other considerations.

a) Wildcards and Truncation.

b) Proximity Operators

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