Computer - Lesson 4: Searching the Web Flashcards
A list of hand-selected sites compiled by web users and organized into categorical tree structures to help users locate site with content that is relevant to their research.
directories
What are some examples of subject directories?
ip12, Infomine, About.com, Yahoo! Directory
A web application that searches the web for new pages and adds these pages into searchable index.
search engine
What are some examples of search engines?
Google, bing, Yahoo! Search, Ask
Using a normal question or sentence as a search keywords
natural language search
Put around the words if you wish to search the exact phrase.
quotation marks
It is used if you want to get definition of a particular term.
define:
It is used when you want to search for a single word that would appear on the title of a document.
intitle:
It is used when you want to search for a phrase that would appear on the title of a document.
allintitle:
You are asking one word, the other word, or both.
or logic
It means that when a keyword is placed without any modifier, Google will search for all the words on the keywords.
and logic
This technique is used when you want to exclude a word in your search.
minus sign
It is used when you want to find a websites that link to a site you are interested in.
link:
An application that searches the Web by submitting the user-inputted keywords to several search engines and compiles the search results into one list eliminating duplicate search results.
metasearch engine
What are some examples of metasearch engines?
yippy.com, www.surfax.com, www.dogpile.com
