1	Searching the Internet – To Google and beyond! Department of Academic Computing Arnold DiBlasi Jr.
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3	Head to head comparison
4	2 steps forward – 10 steps back Look for other resources in the same URL The dreaded 404 – page not found remove an entire HTML file name Remove an entire layer of the URL-- the words between the forward slashes
5	Trimming the URL http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/education/projects/webquests/shakespeare http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/education/projects/webquests/ http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/education/projects/ http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/education/ http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/ http://oncampus.richmond.edu/
6	Locating resources Browsing Directories and special collections Searching Engines and Meta-engines
7	Directories Usually compiled by editors Organized by categories Common directories Yahoo Open Directory
8	Open Directory Project
9	Search Engines Index is created by “spiders” or “robots” Index is not comprehensive Index “freshness” varies
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11	Variations in Search Tools: Default Boolean operator Implicit truncation/stemming Case sensitivity Field Search •host: sunsite.unc • domain: edu filetype: pdf • image: cathedral Spelling counts!
12	Simple Search Identify words as required or prohibited cookie +recipe +raisin -nuts “ ” to group exact words “key lime pie” +recipe
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14	Start narrow: how many hits? You're interested in the legendary lost continent of Atlantis. You are not interested in movies with Atlantis in the title. You are also not interested in the space shuttle Atlantis. Try this search... ALL: Atlantis ALL: Atlantis continent WITHOUT: shuttle film movie
15	New Google features: Freshness
16	Timeline
17	Google extras http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/features.html
18	Time to branch out…