1. Online Search Engines
IBT

2. What is an online search engine?
Database of different information websites
Google
Bing
GALILEO

3. Search Query
Information provided to a search engine so it can locate your web pages or other documents/files (ie PDF, images)

4. Keyword search method
Method that will return web pages that contain ANY of the words in the search query
Is this what you want to use?

5. Phrase Search
Looking for web pages or documents with specific wording

6. Boolean search filter What does it do?
Specifies specific words to include OR exclude
We will do a sample search soon

7. Boolean Example 1
You want your search to only return web pages that include the terms “webmaster” as well as “certification”
What do you type in?
Webmaster AND certification
Try it!

8. Boolean Example 2
You want your search to return web page that include the terms “web” as well as “degree” but eliminate pages that have the term “programming”
What do you type in?
Web AND degree NOT programming

9. Want a specific type of file returned?
Let’s say you just want PDFs of a webmaster job description
What do you type in?
Filetype: pdf webmaster job description

10. Spiders
Programs that collect information on web pages to be stored by the search engine

11. Tips Don’t use dashes or other punctuation
Real life – dissertation searching
Student-centered learning versus
Student centered learning
Way more results using the 2nd search query
Asterisk in your searches
Bark – returns anything about the word bark
Bark* – returns anyting that has bark as a prefix, including bark itself
Bark * – notice the space between the word and the asterisk; this will return any phrase containing bark

12. Using Filters
No search engine for this one, but we want to use filters and Boolean search terms
Class activity – you will have to stand up for this one!
Now go to zappos.com
Find women’s sandals
Brown
Size 8
How did you do it?

13. GALILEO http://www.galileo.usg.edu/welcome/
We will do some quick exploring together