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HOW TO USE HOW TO USE A WEB SEARCH ENGINE A WEB SEARCH ENGINE

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HOW TO USE HOW TO USE A WEB SEARCH A WEB SEARCH ENGINEENGINE

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HOW TO USE HOW TO USE A WEB SEARCH ENGINEA WEB SEARCH ENGINEWeb search engine is the website to helps Web search engine is the website to helps

you find documents on World Wild Web. you find documents on World Wild Web. There are two main search engines – There are two main search engines – Google and Yahoo. Google uses keyword Google and Yahoo. Google uses keyword searching and Yahoo uses a directory.searching and Yahoo uses a directory.For example:

www.google.com www.yahoo.com

www.sanook.com www.bing.com

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HOW TO USE HOW TO USE A WEB SEARCH ENGINEA WEB SEARCH ENGINE

SEARCHOPERATORS

EXAMPLEKEYWORDS

SEARCH RESULTS:WEB PAGE WITH …

(space) - Chihuahua –Mexico

…Chihuahua but not Mexico

“ ” “slam dancing”

…the phrase slam dancing

title: Title:France …France in the Web page titles

url: url:Sony …Sony in the web page URLs

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HOW TO USE HOW TO USE A WEB SEARCH ENGINEA WEB SEARCH ENGINETo help the search

engine find what you want, you need to be specific with the topic of your search.

For example, if you want to buy a computer and you type a computer the keyword, you will get all websites that contain the word computer. But if you type computer buying guide, you will get better results.

Searching by

‘a comput

er’ keywor

dSearching by

‘computer

buying guide’ keywor

d

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HOW TO USE HOW TO USE A WEB SEARCH ENGINEA WEB SEARCH ENGINESome other main Some other main

wayswaysto improve your to improve your

searchsearch

Use the ‘-’ symbol to find pages that have one search word on them, but you need the search engine to exclude the other words commonly associated with that search word.

Searching by‘superman-’ keywor

d

Searching by‘superman’

keyword

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HOW TO USE HOW TO USE A WEB SEARCH ENGINEA WEB SEARCH ENGINEUse the ‘+’ symbol to

eliminate search terms. If you terms that must returned in all your search results, you can place the plus symbol in front of the terms that you need included.

Example : Example : Football+nflFootball+nfl((This will give you information which will include the national Football league)

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HOW TO USE HOW TO USE A WEB SEARCH ENGINEA WEB SEARCH ENGINEUsing AND narrows a

search by combining terms; it will retrieves documents that use both the search terms you specify.

Example : portland portland AND oregonAND oregon

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HOW TO USE HOW TO USE A WEB SEARCH ENGINEA WEB SEARCH ENGINEUsing OR broadens a

search to include result that contain either of the words you type in. OR is good tool to use when there are several common spellings or synonyms of a word.

Example : liberal OR liberal OR democratdemocrat

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Using NOT will narrow a search by excluding certain search terms. NOT retrives documents that contain one, but not the other, of the search terms you enter.

Example : oregon NOT travel

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HOW TO USE HOW TO USE A WEB SEARCH ENGINEA WEB SEARCH ENGINESearch adviceSearch advice

if you are searching in English, change search engine settings to English.

The more words in your searching criteria, the smaller the number of results.

Do not bother with capital letters, prepositions, articles or conjunctions.

If you can not find what you want in the first three pages, change the search words.

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If you want to see only easier English sites in your Google Search, type in your search words as normal and enter. On the screen, click ‘Search Tools’

HOW TO USE HOW TO USE A WEB SEARCH ENGINEA WEB SEARCH ENGINE

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Then click on ‘All results’ ; from the drop down menu, click ‘Reading level’

HOW TO USE HOW TO USE A WEB SEARCH ENGINEA WEB SEARCH ENGINE

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Then double click on ‘Basic’ and the page will show the easier English page first.

HOW TO USE HOW TO USE A WEB SEARCH ENGINEA WEB SEARCH ENGINE

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HOW TO USE HOW TO USE A WEB SEARCH ENGINEA WEB SEARCH ENGINE

Web DirectoryWeb Directory

A web directory is a collection of links to Web Pages, arranged by topics and sub-topics.

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