Start Your Engines!!!

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Start Your Engines!!!

• Using Brain Power and the Four Nets to Travel the
  WWW

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• Just because you live on the Web doesnt mean you
  cant learn how to use it more effectively and
  more powerfully

I already know how to use the Web!
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Effective Searching
Brainstorming, Questioning, Planning
Understanding strategy/ Syntax
Using the right Search Tool
Evaluating Results!
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Search, Dont Surf

• NETS
• Narrow
• Exact Phrase
• Trim
• Similar Pages

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Narrow

• Effective searchers use the
  
• advanced search screen
• Include all the words you want
• to use in the with all the words field
• Fill in the words you do not want in the
  without field

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Exact Phrase

• Words hang out in predictable ways
• Use the type in the exact phrase you are
  searching for
• Use quotations in the general search to indicate
  exact phrasing
• Not all groups of words are phrases,
• be careful not to overuse

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Trim Back the URL

• Like what you see, want to find more?
• Start by clipping away at the URL
• You may find more valuable information
• Dead link? Trim the URL to see
• if the author changed the location
• of the page

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Similar Pages

• Seek pages like the one you found
• by selecting similar pages in the
• advanced search

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When using a search engine

• Your goal is to get the best stuff to appear of
  the first two or three pages