Searching EIT, Author Gay Robertson, 2017
Finding what you want
Key your search data …
General searching hints
Search categories
All or Web looks for any instance Images looks for images matching the query Videos or Maps looks for videos or maps matching the query News looks for any articles relating to the query
Image Searching
News Search
Searching Hints Note: you used some of these in NZCC2
Advanced Search Tools
Narrow your search – specific words and region
Narrow your search – specific time
Narrow your search – using keywords
Automatic exclusion of common words
Quote marks
Language and file format search
Try another search engine If you always use the same search engine then look at trying one of the others and see how the results differ
Save a web page
Search Results aka Matches or Hits
Search Results
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How are the results listed? Each search engine has a different formula for ranking the information it searches for This is one of the reasons that a search for the same word(s) on different search engines will produce different lists, with the pages presented in different orders A search engine will ‘rank’ the number of times that the word appears on a page The search engine might assign a weight to each entry, with increasing values assigned to words as they appear in the title of the page, near the top of the document, in sub-headings, in links, or in the meta tags
Meta Tags Meta tags are part of the HTML code on a webpage The code provides information including: what the page is about which keywords represent the page's content Many search engines use this information when building their indexes
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