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Types of Search
Quick and Dirty
Advanced
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I need some craft supplies
I need supplies for spinning and weaving
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Types of Search Source
E S o i n r I a D G s d
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An example of the way things are ‘organised’ and ‘structured’ on the internet
An example of the way things are ‘organised’ and ‘structured’ in a human-created and managed information source like a database
Organised
Truncation
Uses the ‘root’ of a word/term to search for all related words/terms with that root
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friend
befriend
friendly
friendship
friendless
girlfriend
boyfriend unfriendlyfriends
friendliness
Wildcards
* % ! $ + ? #
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Not a sweary word, just a few examples of the characters often used as wildcards in information searching
$friend retrieves befriend, boyfriend, girlfriend, unfriendly
Boolean Operators
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AND
OR
NOT
Narrows a search : fewer results
Widens a search : more results
Excludes certain items : fewer results
Search strategy??
The AND Operator
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Plumbing Rods
Plumbing AND Rods
Everything plumbing All kinds of rods
The OR Operator
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Colour ColorOR
British items containing the word ‘colour’
American items containing the word ‘color’
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