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Maximizing Internet Search Engines
The document discusses strategies for maximizing the use of internet search engines to find information online. It provides an overview of how search engines work and their limitations, and recommends using multiple search engines and keywords, Boolean operators, quotation marks, and specialized databases to improve search results. The document also suggests exploring options beyond search engines, such as using library resources and subject directories for more in-depth information.
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- 1. Maximizing Internet Search Engines Instructor: Melissa Rethlefsen Capacity Building Workshop June 18 th -19 th , 2003
- 2. Agenda About searchengines Searching tips Other places to search Practice
- 3. What are SearchEngines? Databases of full-text web pages
- 4. Searching the WholeWeb? Impossible!
- 5. Search Engines atWork “Spiders” collect information Information is old You search the collection Must guess at keywords, terms
- 6. Think About YourSearch… Descriptive Terms/Keywords Specific or General Information? Equivalent Terms, Variant Spellings?
- 7. Learn About YourEngine All Engines Work Differently
- 8. Recommended Search EnginesGoogle The best and largest search engine AllTheWeb AltaVista
- 9. Search More Than1 Place All Engines Have Different Information
- 10. Try a MetaSearchEngine Multiple engines, analysis tools SurfWax, IxQuick, Vivisimo
- 11. Use Multiple KeywordsHealth promotion – 2,560,000 Health promotion marketing – 924,000 Health promotion social marketing – 517,000 Health promotion social marketing asthma – 15,600 Health promotion social marketing asthma adolescents – 3,780 Health – 101,000,000 Health - 101 million Health promotion - 2,560,000 Health promotion marketing - 924,000 Health promotion social marketing - 517,000 Health promotion social marketing asthma - 15,600 Health promotion social marketing asthma adolescents - 3,780
- 12. Quotation Marks ProperNames, Distinct Phrases “Public Health Nursing” “American Journal of Health Education” "Capacity Building"
- 13. “ Learn theLingo” Use Boolean Query Language for Better Results AND, OR, NOT
- 14. Boolean Queries… "SocialMarketing" "Health Promotion" AND OR
- 15. Variant Terms andDifferent Spellings “High blood pressure” OR hypertension Pediatrics OR paediatrics
- 16. Exclude Words monkeypox NOT chicken
- 17. Use Advanced SearchesAdvanced Search Form Boolean Querying Stemming/Truncating Domain/Site Limits Language Limits
- 18. Install a ToolbarGoogle’s Toolbar for IE: Much More!!! Highlights Terms Shows Relative “Rank”
- 19. Try the ElusiveInvisible Web
- 20. What’s Wrong WithSearch Engines? 90% of Internet hidden Spiders can’t recognize Only exists dynamically Must authenticate
- 21. Finding the HiddenInformation Subject directories list specialized databases Search engines with: keywords AND “database” Use an Invisible Web directory
- 22. Go to YourLibrary! Authenticated databases Online journal article access High-quality information Expert help
- 23. And Most Importantly…Adapt and Change Your Strategy
- 24. Using Google: TheBest of the Best
- 25. Find Information On…Most Recent Update of the CDC’s Definition of SARS
- 26. Find… Photographs ofSexually Transmitted Diseases
- 27. Find A… Pamphletfor Educating Spanish-Speakers About Pap Smears
- 28. Locate… The GoogleToolbar Installation Files and Instructions
- 29. Find a SpecializedDatabase On… Toxicological Effects of Chemicals on Humans
- 30. Find A… Photographof Lungs Damaged from Smoking
- 31. Find a Curriculumfor… Teaching Adolescents About AIDS
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