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Internet Search Tools: Tools, Tips, and Caveats

Learn about essential search features, validity of sources, virtual libraries, search portals, search engines, meta-search tools, and other useful URLs for efficient internet searching. Discover hints for broad and narrow searches, use of quotes, and spelling checks.

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Internet Search Tools: Tools, Tips, and Caveats

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  1. Searching on the Internet A Selection of Tools And some caveats

  2. Search Features • Case Sensitivity • Date Limits • Boolean Operators (+, -) • Phrases • Nearness • Wildcards • Concept searches

  3. Results • Relevancy • Duplication Elimination • Search Refinement • Multi-page output/count limitations • Meta-tag searches included

  4. Validity of Sources • Author • Timeliness • Accuracy • Objectivity • Purpose

  5. Virtual Libraries • The Internet Public Library • www.ipl.org • Library Catalogs • http://sunsite.berkeley.edu • http://library.lib.binghamton.edu

  6. Search Portals • www.Lycos.com • www.go.com • www.Excite.com • www.hotbot.com • www.WebCrawler.com

  7. Search Engines • www.WiseNut.com • www.Teoma.com • www.google.com • www.altavista.com • www.ask.com (contextual)

  8. Meta-Search Tools • www.metacrawler.com • www.vivisimo.com (from CMU) • www.dogpile.com

  9. Some Other Useful URL's • www.hotfiles.com - freeware • www.wired.com – wired news • Global Energy Marketplace • http://www.crest.org/gem.html • MacTutor History of Mathematics • http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/ • Occupational Outlook Handbook • http://www.bls.gov/oco/ • Geothermal Data • http://rglsun1.geol.vt.edu/ • Special search engine collection • http://www.leidenuniv.nl/ub/biv/specials.htm • Specialty Search Engines • http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2156351

  10. Hints • Broad subject matter (astronomy, finance) • Use a portal like Yahoo • Narrow subject matter • Google, Altavista, etc. • Use more than 3 words • Don't use "of", "the", etc • Use a quoted phrase • Check your spelling !!!!!

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