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Using Web Search Engines
LIBRARY LESSONS From the Research helpdesk August 2011
Using Web Search Engines is licensed by NJIT Library under a Creative
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You know
How does Google work?
What does Google search?
What order do your results come back in?
Invisible Web
Do you know….
Subject directories
Meta Search Engines
Meta-search engine
displays results from many search engines at
once.
Each search engine uses its own
algorithms for finding and
showing results
Boolean Searching
androids
Quick:
•Learn the lingo
•look for more words you can use
NEVER Copy & Paste from wikipedia.
Failure to give credit to your sources of information
is called plagiarism.
books
article
websites
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