The document discusses various Google search tools and strategies for effective web searching, including: - Using keywords, synonyms, and search strings to refine Google queries. - How Google indexes billions of web pages and ranks results based on over 200 factors like popularity. - Tips for using Boolean operators (e.g. quotes, AND/OR), limiting searches by site or file type, and using advanced search features. - Other Google search engines like News, Books and Scholar that provide specialized search of news articles, books and scholarly articles. - Social bookmarking tools like Delicious that allow users to store and share bookmarks across devices and with other users.

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4. Worksheets you can use 21 st Century Literacies worksheet that helps students identify keywords and synonyms, and the bottom of the worksheet helps them put search strings together.

5. Worksheets you can use Another 21 st Century Literacies worksheet for keyword and synonym help

7. Google search strategies versus Do not need “and” between terms to combine them, but order matters. Place most prominent items first.

8. Google search strategies Use quotes for exact phrases Include and exclude words

9. Google search strategies Either or Limit to website or domain

10. Google search strategies Limit to range of numbers Limit to type of file

11. Google search strategies Google can be your dictionary Google can be your calculator

12. Other strategies – Google Guide Many other different ways to limit searches: intitle intext allinurl related pages author source

13. Other Google search engines

14. Google News

15. Google News - Archive Click on Advanced Search get to Archive Search…

16. Google News – Archive Search

17. Google News Archives results

18. Google News Timeline results

20. Google Books

21. Google Books results

22. Google Books book view

24. Google Scholar

25. Google Scholar search results

26. Google Scholar Advanced Search

29. Delicious

30. Delicious toolbar buttons http:// delicious.com/help/tools The box brings you to your account and the grey tag allows you to bookmark a website in Delicious without ever leaving the website. Brilliant!