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Cool Searching Cool Searching Tips Tips Who won the Super Bowl in 2012? How old is Pres. Obama? Obliterate ?? Who is Will.I.Am?

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Cool Searching Tips. Obliterate??. How old is Pres. Obama?. Who won the Super Bowl in 2012?. Who is Will.I.Am?. What can I do if I need information?. Use your textbook Go to the library Ask you teacher Try a search engine But HOW?. What ’ s a search engine?. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Cool Searching Cool Searching TipsTips

Who won

the Super

Bowl in

2012?

How old is Pres. Obama?

Obliterate??

Who is Will.I.Am?

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What can I do if I need What can I do if I need information?information?

Use your textbookGo to the libraryAsk you teacher

Try a search engine

But HOW?

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What’s a What’s a search engine?search engine?

Programs that search documents for specified keywords and return a list of the documents where the keywords were found.

Different search engine = different results

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Think about Think about KEY WORDS KEY WORDS for your topic.for your topic.

Your task is to write a report on Abraham Lincoln. What are the key words?

◦Abraham Lincoln—of course◦Civil War◦Gettysburg Address◦White House

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Try using Try using quotation marks quotation marks around key wordsaround key words

Want information about Abe Lincoln?

If you type in Abe Lincoln, you might get sites about Abe Fortis or Lincoln penny

With quotation marks around the phrase — “Abe Lincoln” — you will get sites about Abe Lincoln only

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Exclude Extra WordsExclude Extra Words

You want to know in what city LeBron James was born.

On the search line you could write—LeBron James birthplace or just LeBron James

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Use a Use a different different search search engineengine. Continued…. Continued…

Name some search engines:

Google — In our survey, Google was the most-used search engine.

BingYahooInfOhioAsk.com

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Observe the top-level domain Observe the top-level domain (TLD) to determine (TLD) to determine validityvalidity of of site.site.

http://kent.edu

the TLD

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Look for these:Look for these:

.gov (government site).edu (university site).org (not-for-profit agency).com (commercial site).net (usually networking, but

could have other use)

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Shortcut words —Shortcut words —On the search line, write _____On the search line, write _____

define: gives you the definition of a wordweather: add Zip code to get weathermovie: put in Zip code and get listingimage: put in name and get images listphonebook: put in number and it tells

caller (cell phones often left out)inform: give information on topic

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Two more tipsTwo more tips

No need for a calculator! Write calculations right on the search line.

Can use symbols to get results. Use %, $ and #

(# for social networking)

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GIVE IT A TRY!GIVE IT A TRY!For more information, go to…For more information, go to…

Google Search Featureshttp://google.com/help/features.html

Google Guidehttp://googleguide.com