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Seo Click: How to Apply Advanced Search Techniques in Google 2020
In this tutorial, you will learn how to use Google's Advanced Search tool to look for web pages, images, and videos. You will also learn about advanced search operator and shortcuts you can use.
Media Smarts
Media Smarts: Stay on the Path Lesson One: Searching for Treasure
This four-lesson unit on search skills and critical thinking teaches students how to target and specify their online searches to avoid unwanted results, how to judge whether a link, search result, or website is legitimate or phony and...
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University of Exeter: Search Techniques: Planning Your Search Strategy
A collection of excellent resources to help you develop effective online search techniques.
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University of Leeds: Literature Searching Explained: Develop a Search Strategy
Learn how to create a search strategy when doing research. This resource explains how to choose search terms and keywords, about using truncated and wildcard searches, how to use Boolean logic, and how to search for citations. Includes...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Beware Online "Filter Bubbles"
As web companies strive to tailor their services to our personal tastes, there's a dangerous unintended consequence: We get trapped in a "filter bubble" and don't get exposed to information that could challenge or broaden our worldview....
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University of Exeter: Search Techniques: Combining Search Terms
This resource explains how to use the Boolean operators AND, OR, and NOT to broaden or narrow a web search.
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The Open University: Choosing Good Keywords
If you need information for a specific purpose, such as an assignment or report, unpicking the question can help you to identify the best keywords to get you what you need. By the end of this activity, you will be able to use terminology...
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The Open University: Filtering Information Quickly
It is easy to search the web for pretty much anything these days, but coping with the amount of results that come back can be a challenge. Being able to handle information efficiently is a skill which will stand you in good stead, both...
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Don't 'Just Google It': 3 Ways Students Can Get the Most From Searching Online
Searching online has many educational benefits. But spending more time online does not guarantee better online skills. Instead, a student's ability to successfully search online increases with guidance and explicit instruction. The...
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University of Queensland Australia: Search Techniques: Plan Your Search
Just as you should plan your essay before starting to write, you should also plan your search strategy before searching for information. The more thought you put into planning, and the more systematic you are, the more relevant your...
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University of Queensland Australia: Search Techniques: Web Searching
Provides strategies for focusing your online search in order to find useful information about your research topic.
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Morningside College: Keyword Searching: Advanced Search Techniques
Information about how to use advanced techniques when searching for information online. Covers the use of wildcard symbols, truncation, proximity searching, and how to combine tools.