1. Search Engines
Lesson 2.0

2. Types of Search Engines
Keyword Search
Uses keywords to perform search
Multimedia Search Engines
Used to find graphics, video clips, animation, and MP3 music files.
Meta Search Engines
Search several major search engines at one time.
Subject Directories
Organized by subject categories and displayed in a series of menus.

3. Phrase Searching
A phrase is entered using double quotation marks and only matches those that appear adjacent to each other and in the order in which you specify.
Example: “baseball cards”

4. Search Engine Math
Symbols used in formulas to filter out unwanted listings.
Use the plus symbol (+) before words that must appear.
Also known as an inclusion operator.
Use the minus symbol (-) before words that you do not want to appear.
Also known as an exclusion operator.

5. Boolean Operators Boolean logic consists of three logical operators:
AND
NOT OR

6. Wildcard Searching
The * symbol, called an asterisk, is considered a wildcard character.
Used if you don’t know the spelling of a word
Example: T*Woods to search for Tiger Woods
Used to search plurals or variations of words.

7. Title Searching Searching the title of a web page.
When a web page author creates a Web page, the Web page generally contains a HTML title.