Posted on November 27th, 2008 at 7:26 pm by ssisdolly and
In Ict class, i learned that how to use google in an advenced way of searching. Now I seem to understand that Google was really complicated and a great tool for searching. Before we did this activity, I didn’t know that it mattered how many hits you get when you search for a subject. Normally, we would just type about our subject in general. Thus, there would be a lot of hits that doesn’t relate to what you would like to know but has the word/s you have typed. NETS ellaborated how we can narrow our search and be a skillful catcher of web pages. To lessen the number of hits, we used the Advanced Search area to search for subjects. With this, the web pages that turned out would relate to whatever we typed in. For example, we typed in “Atlantis” at first. There were 42 million hits for this and most of these web pages were not specifically related to what we wanted. With the help of AS, we typed in “Atlantis continent” and “without shuttle film movie”. The number of hits decreased to almost 80,000 hits.
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Imagine that you’re interested in the legendary lost continent of Atlantis. There have been several movies with Atlantis in the title, but you’re not interested in them. You are also not interested in the space shuttle Atlantis. Try this search… Here’s how to search for it badly: all these words: Atlantis |
Write the number of hits you get below.
38,800,000 hits |
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Now try this: all these words: Atlantis continent any of these unwanted words: shuttle film movie |
287,000 hits |
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Here’s another search to try: all these words: Waterbury one or more of these words: Vermont VT any of these unwanted words: Connecticut CT |
318,000 |
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What strategy was used in the above search. |
We used what was suggested |
