Different search tricks to searching the web.

1. Internet Search
Finding Information on the Internet

2. My Journey

3. Why do I care about this?

4. Milestones in Web Growth

5. I’ll be going through...
•Directories
•Search Engines (indexing)
•Search Math
•Meta Search Engines
•Social Bookmarks

6. Directories
Compiled by humans

7. Directories

8. Search Engines (Indexing)
Compiled by Computers

9. Search Engines (Indexing)

10. Search Engines (Indexing)
9%
3%
6%
Google Yahoo MSN
10% AOL Ask Others
49%
24%
Source: Nielsen NetRatings - July 2006

11. Importance of the “TOP 10”

12. Search Math: Get this nerd out of here

13. “ ”
Quotes: “Rosa Parks”

14. Pluses: quot;red crossquot; +flag

15. Minuses: bambi disney animated -movie

16. Combining: “moon landing” apollo -“john young”

17. Boolean Operators: (AND, NOT, OR)

18. Synonyms: Harvard ~University (college, school, etc)

19. File Types: “brown v. board of education” filetype:ppt

20. Title Search: intitle:“Elevator Up”

21. URL Search: inurl:badger

22. Define Search: define: agitprop

23. Site Search: pirates site:disney.com

24. Link Search: link:imagegroup.com

25. Phonebook Search: for the stalkers in the group

26. Stock Reports: stocks: aapl

27. Calculator: 2+2=4 or teaspoons in a gallon

28. Meta Search Engines
Searching the search engines

29. Dogpile.com - a meta crawler

30. 6 Step to Searching the Internet
You’re going to hate this, but give it a try.

31. 6 Steps to Searching the Internet
• Summarize your topic
1
• Identify your key concepts
2
• Choose your keywords
3
• Choose your search tool
4
• Search until you find
5
• Evaluate the resources
6

32. Example 1
Mark is a truck driver. His brother recently gave him
a used Compaq Presario running Windows ME.
Mark is kind of new to computers -- he mostly uses
his computer to surf the Internet and play games.
Recently, when trying to run Windows Update,
Mark's computer threw up an error message that
said IExplore has caused a problem in mshtml.dll.
Iexplore will now close.

33. Example 1
Mark is a truck driver. His brother recently gave him
a used Compaq Presario running Windows ME.
Mark is kind of new to computers -- he mostly uses
his computer to surf the Internet and play games.
Recently, when trying to run Windows Update,
Mark's computer threw up an error message that
said IExplore has caused a problem in mshtml.dll.
Iexplore will now close.

34. Example 1
IExplore has caused a problem in mshtml.dll
“Windows Update” “Windows ME”

35. Example 2
I want to find a list of search strategies
recommended by college libraries.

36. Example 2
I want to find a list of search strategies
recommended by college libraries.
Option 1: “search strategies” college libraries

37. Example 2
I want to find a list of search strategies
recommended by college libraries.
Option 1: “search strategies” college libraries
Option 2: “search strategies” inurl:library site:edu

38. Social Bookmarking
How to remember things that are useful.

39. del.icio.us

40. ma.gnolia.com

41. beta.bookmarks.yahoo.com

42. Questions?

43. http://www.elevatorup.com/presentation/