1. Searching
EIT, Author Gay Robertson, 2017

2. Finding what you want

3. Key your search data …

4. General searching hints

5. Search categories

6. 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

7. Image Searching

8. News Search

9. Searching Hints Note: you used some of these in NZCC2

10. Advanced Search Tools

11. Narrow your search – specific words and region

12. Narrow your search – specific time

13. Narrow your search – using keywords

14. Automatic exclusion of common words

15. Quote marks

17. Language and file format search

18. 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

19. Save a web page

20. Search Results aka Matches or Hits

21. Search Results

22. Scroll down to bottom of the page

23. 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

24. 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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