Saturday, October 25, 2008

Module 4: Boolean searching task

The biggest number of hits relating to these key words:

If I want to get a bigger search result i simply put AND between my search terms. In my example I did "surfing AND Australia" and i was given a result of 9,680,000 as aposed to 541,000 which I got from searching for "surfing Australia".

Information most relevant to what you ACTUALLY wanted to look for!:

To do this you add the word NOT. For example my search came up with some results that included waveskiing. Therefore to narrow my search i search "surfing Australia NOT waveskii".

Information coming only from university source:

To find information only from university sources i type "edu" at the end of my search. For example I would type "surfing Australia edu".

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