Internet Searching Tools

The World Wide Web has over 800 million pages and counting! To help search through the madness, companies have created databases. These databases are called search engines or search directories

Index: An index looks at the content of every web page it can find, and makes a list of the words each page contains. It stores these words in a database so that if someone searches for a word, it knows where to find it. Examples of search engines include:

Subject Directories: These are smaller databases, and information is arranged by category. The important concept to remember about subject directories is that a human being has looked at every page they contain. This human intervention greatly reduces the probability of retrieving results out of context.

Multi Search Engine: allows you to search multiple search engine databases simultaneously. For example:

 

Search Terminology

Here are some helpful definitions of Internet Search Terminology:

Hits

the number of items found in response to searching

Query

like a question, a method of filtering data to find info

Operations

symbols or special words used to perform operations

Boolean Logic

refines searches based on simple operators (AND, NOT, OR)

 

Internet Search Tutorial

(these resources created by Dr. Bernie Dodge, SDSU)

 

Before your Search

 

Seven Steps to Better Searching

 

Specialized Search Engines

 

Bookmark in Communicator 

 

Adding a Bookmark (Mac)

  1. Find a site worthy of adding to your bookmarks.
  2. Click on the "Bookmark" in the Menu Bar.
  3. Move down to "Add Bookmark" and click.

The bookmark you added will be the last one on the list.

 

Adding a Bookmark (Windows)

  1. Find a site worthy of adding to your bookmarks.
  2. Right-click anywhere on the page you want to bookmark.
  3. Click on "Add Bookmark" in the popup menu.