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Be a Super Searcher

Be a Super Searcher. Using Search Strategies to Find Information. Boolean Operators. And Computer retrieves only documents that contain every keyword you enter. The more terms you enter the narrower your search. Crime and guns Crime and guns and prisons Crime and guns and prisons and women.

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Be a Super Searcher

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  1. Be a Super Searcher Using Search Strategies to Find Information

  2. Boolean Operators And Computer retrieves only documents that contain every keyword you enter. The more terms you enter the narrower your search. Crime and guns Crime and guns and prisons Crime and guns and prisons and women

  3. Boolean Operators OR Using or expands the search. The computer gives documents in which either or both keywords appear. Use with similar terms. adolescents or teens or young adults college or university

  4. Boolean Operators AND NOT Limits the search by returning documents only on your 1st keyword. Use when a term may have several meanings or you want to eliminate frequent terms. saturn AND NOT car pepsi AND NOT coke bass AND NOT fish

  5. Combining Strategies Using More than one Boolean Operator AND and OR Boolean Operators (Careers or Jobs) AND medicine (Chevy or Ford) AND engines AND NOT with other Boolean Operators Saturn AND NOT (car or automobile) Bass AND NOT (music or instruments)

  6. Boolean Operators • AND It narrows the search • OR It expands the search • And Not It narrows the search Tip: Put your most important word first. Be a Super Searcher!

  7. Truncation A technique which enables the searcher to look for a word and its possible endings. It looks for the root of the word and all alternate word endings. Must use a wildcard. Usually expressed as an * Educat* will give you…

  8. Truncation Educat*... Education Educator Educate Educationist Educational Educatee Educating Educates Educated

  9. Phrase Searching The computer looks for a phrase or two or more words appearing next to each other. It searches them as a single unit. You must use “Quotation Marks” around the phrase. “Russian Revolution” “world trade center” “sound business reasons” “Mairzy doats and dozy doats” http://www.google.com Be a Super Searcher!

  10. Combining Strategies Phrase Search and Boolean Operator AND Example: “Academy Award” AND “Best Picture” Football AND “high schools”

  11. Proximity Operators You can specify exact number of words between search terms and the order of the words in the document. Within written with w# (word order) Near written with n# (any order) Choose a number to represent the #. Dicipline w10 spanking Paul McCartney n25 Ringo Starr

  12. Specify Domain If you want to specify a website with a particular domain you can use Google to search only that domain. Do this by entering your keyword then the word "site" and a colon followed by the domain name. crime site:.gov crime site:.org google Be a Super Searcher!

  13. Use these strategies to be a super searcher • Boolean Operators: And, Or, And Not • Truncation : Use Wildcard * or ? • Phrase Searching : Use Quotation Marks • Proximity Operators: Near and Within • Specify Domains: site:

  14. Before You Begin • Know what you are looking for • Think of some possible keywords to type into the computer • Plan your strategies Be a Super Searcher!

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