Transcript Search Engines - Pitt County Schools

Search Engines
Lesson 2.0
Types of Search Engines
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Keyword Search
◦ Uses keywords to perform search
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Multimedia Search Engines
◦ Used to find graphics, video clips, animation, and MP3
music files.
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Meta Search Engines
◦ Search several major search engines at one time.
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Subject Directories
◦ Organized by subject categories and displayed in a
series of menus.
Phrase Searching
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A phrase is entered using double quotation
marks and only matches those that appear
adjacent to each other and in the order in
which you specify.
◦ Example: “baseball cards”
Search Engine Math
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Symbols used in formulas to filter out
unwanted listings.
◦ Use the plus symbol (+) before words that must
appear.
 Also known as an inclusion operator.
◦ Use the minus symbol (-) before words that you
do not want to appear.
 Also known as an exclusion operator.
Boolean Operators
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Boolean logic consists of three logical
operators:
◦ AND
◦ NOT
◦ OR
Wildcard Searching
The * symbol, called an asterisk, is
considered a wildcard character.
 Used if you don’t know the spelling of a word
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◦ Example: T*Woods to search for Tiger Woods
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Used to search plurals or variations of words.
Title Searching
Searching the
title of a web
page.
 When a web
page author
creates a Web
page, the
Web page
generally
contains a
HTML title.
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