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Sharon AxthelmA free, interactive tutorial on how to search the Internet using basic and advanced search techniques.
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SEARCH
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search engines rely on computer programs called spiders or robots to crawl the Web and log the words on each page.
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To use search engines effectively, it is essential to apply techniques that narrow results and push the most relevant pages to the top of the results list.
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Connecting search terms with AND tells the search engine to retrieve web pages containing ALL the keywords.
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Linking search terms with OR tells the search engine to retrieve web pages containing ANY and ALL keywords.
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AND NOT
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The plus sign (+) is the equivalent of AND, and the minus sign (-) is the equivalent of AND NOT.
There is no space between the plus or minus sign and the keyword. -
double quotes
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if you want both upper and lower case occurrences returned, type your keywords in all lower case letters
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most search engines interpret singular keywords as singular or plural
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URL SEARCH limits search results to web pages
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LINK SEARCH when you want to know what websites are linked to a particular site of interest.
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