Search Tips
Frustrated with the hundreds of
web pages listed in your search results?
Try using the tips below to
refine
your search:
- Use
the advance search feature and read the help section of the search
tool you are using.
- If you are searching for a certain
phrase (ex. drug abuse, Cuban Missile Crisis) put the phrase in
quotation
marks. Then, the computer will seach for pages that contain those
words
adjacent to one another.
- To search for many forms of a word,
type in the root of the word, followed by an asterisk (wildcard).
Ex.
"French paint*"
will search for French painting or
French painters
Ex.
teach*
will search for teaching or teach or
teaches or teacher or teachers
- Search for web sites that contain
the topic you're searching for in their titles.
- Limit the domain (.edu, .gov, .com)
for your search.
Below are sites and online
tutorials
that provide information on searching techniques and web site
credibility.
Bare
Bones 101: A Basic Tutorial on Searching the Web - from
University of South Carolina - Beaufort Library
http://www.sc.edu/beaufort/library/pages/bones/bones.shtml
Finding Information on the
Internet: A Tutorial - from the University of California,
Berkeley
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html
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