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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.

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

Now try this:

all these words: Atlantis

continent

any of these unwanted

words: shuttle film movie

287,000 hits

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

What strategy was used in the

above search.

We used what was suggested

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