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Search Tips:
Use different types of search engines ~
Seach Engines
Database inventory gathered by software based robots that travel the net, indexing the text of the webpages they find
More sites retrieved
Directories
An index hand picked by a living and breathing human being ...
Fewer sites, better quality...
About (A directory, magazine and encyclopedia all in one)
Meta-Search Engines
Search several search engines at once
Many experts however, including Berkeley, recommend using one search engine at a time
Dog Pile (Searches Google, Yahoo, LookSmart, Ask, MSN search, and more. )
Meta-Crawler (Searches Google, Yahoo! Search, MSN Search, Ask Jeeves, About, MIVA, LookSmart and more)
Clustering
Shows you themes or clusters within results
Clusty (Currently searches a number of free search engines and directories, not Google or Yahoo.)
Use different types of search strategies ~
Look for and use the tools they provide, such as:
Advanced
Help
Options
Preferences
Search Tips
Use search operators
Boolean
AND
OR
NOT
Others
+
-
&
* (wildcard)
"phrase search"
natural language
nested search
not case sensitive ~ except for / such as
ISAT
Rose Bowl
~ (synonym)
Examples from Learn Web Skills' site
Google Guide Tutorials
Try some examples:
cola -pepsi
~automobile
"Des Moines River"
Who won the Oscar for best actress in 1980?
"Stopping by * on a Snowy Evening"