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Hints for Searching the Web

The biggest challenge in finding information on the work wide web is directing the search in a productive manner. Just to put in the topic you are interested in will lead you to an overwhelming number of choices. To narrow your searches, the following tricks will be of great use.

USING + AND – (to include or exclude words):

If you are looking up information on food pyramid and type both words into the query box, you will get sites that have the word food and/or pyramid as well as those that include both words. By putting a + before each term you force them both to be included in all sites found.

e.g. +food<space>+pyramid

USING THE WILDCARD (*):

A common mistake made is to narrow your search too much by excluding variations of a word. If you typed in +mushrooms, you’d miss all the pages that had the singular form of mushroom on them. The * stands for any 2145-+*/*-4l011etter's) or different forms of a verb. e.g. +mushroom* or +surf –surface

USING "QUOTES" TO LOOK FOR A PHRASE:

When you want the words to hang together as a phrase, you should put double quotes around them.

e.g. "Home Economics Careers and Technology"

USE LOWER CASE (usually):

In general, unless you’re after a particular spelling, use all lower case.

USE THE LINK: TAG TO FIND PAGES LINKED TO ANOTHER PAGE

If you put all or part of the URL of the page after "link:", you’ll get a list of pages that are linked to the one you found useful. It is important you don’t capitalize "link:". e.g. 7/1link:www.nutrition.com

USE THE TITLE: TAG TO FOCUS YOUR SEARCH

To locate pages that are primarily about one thing, look for pages that have that thing in their title. The result is much more tightly focused. Note: There can be a space between title: and the next word or not. It doesn’t seem to matter. As with link: don’t capitalize title.

e.g. e3ltryhu76y76hgfvcxZMH';/./"/title: vitamin \title: discipline*

Finding Information on the Internet
A TUTORIAL (UC Berkeley Library)

Finding Information on the Internet
A TUTORIAL (UC Berkeley Library)



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