1. Searching the Internet

2. What is the best search tool?

3. Choose your search tool Book Movie Theatre Journal Article Shopping Software University Program Dictionary, Terminology Instructional Video (Amazon.com) http://www.blockbuster.com &http://www.blockbuster.com http://movies.aol.com/ ERIC Ebay Amazon Yahoo Directory Wikipedia & http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ Sunburst & United Streaming

4. Examples http://www.zillow.com

5. Dictionary http://www.thefreedictionary.com http://www.m-w.com/ Reliability

6. Auto Info http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/index.cfm NHTSA information on recalls, TSB’s, defects, etc http://www.smogcheck.ca.gov Consumer website that helps explain Smog Inspection Report http://www.howstuffworks.com/ Explains how items (stuff) work http://www.kbb.com/ New and used vehicle pricing (specific to geographic location) http://www.fueleconomy.gov/ Vehicle fuel economy ratings http://www.safercar.gov/ Vehicle safety ratings http://www.nhtsa.gov/ National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration http://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles Environmental vehicles ratings http://www.eere.energy.gov/afdc/ Alternative fuel, fueling station infrastructure

7. Limiting The Search Be specific... Computer applications in high school math teaching

8. and & or ignored by google California OR Denver California AND Denver expensive car + red chair Use the - sign to exclude disney -california -land -movie -tv

9. 10 Keywords Limit Google ignores “stop words” a, about, an, and, are, as, at, be, by, from, how, i, in, is, it, of, on, or, that, the, this, to, we, what, when, where, which, with

10. Search Tips

11. related: will list web pages that are "similar" to a specified web page related:www.starfall.com

12. Wildcards "don't ask country * ask" “Isaac Newton discovered *”

13. File Type "First amendment" filetype:ppt

14. Adobe Portable Document Format (pdf) Adobe PostScript (ps) Lotus 1-2-3 (wk1, wk2, wk3, wk4, wk5, wki, wks, wku) Lotus WordPro (lwp) MacWrite (mw) Microsoft Excel (xls) Microsoft PowerPoint (ppt) Microsoft Word (doc) Microsoft Works (wks, wps, wdb) Microsoft Write (wri) Rich Text Format (rtf) Shockwave Flash (swf) Text (ans, txt)

15. intitle: global warming Intitle: Google will restrict the results to documents containing that word in the title.

16. Domain=Site psychology site:com psychology site:edu textbook site:www.csulb.edu

17. inurl: Google will restrict the results to documents containing that word in the url

18. Calculator (5+1)**2 3^20 sqrt(16)

19. Unit conversion half a cup in teaspoons two pounds in kilograms 160 pounds * 4000 feet in Calories

20. CSULB library

27. Get the Full Text

28. Screen Capture Command+Shift+3: takes a screenshot of the full screen (or screens if multiple monitors), and save it as a file to the desktop Command+Shift+4: brings up a selection box so you can specify an area to take a screenshot of, then save it as a file to the desktop Command+Shift+4, then spacebar, then click a window:takes a screenshot of a window only and saves it as a file to the JING