Search+Strategies


 * ​Module 4**

1. The four search engines that I think of first are Google, Yahoo, AIM, and Alta Vista. Meta-engines list multiple search engines at the same time. I found a list of meta-search engines at @http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/MetaSearch.html 2. Use quotation marks to specify the order of the words as well as both words. Without quotation marks, all of the words will be searched for separately and together in different arrangements. Quotation marks will limit the search results, so the results will be more focused. Search results from [|http://www.teoma.com] also known as []
 * Clusty
 * Dogpile
 * Surfwax
 * Copernic Agent
 * = Topic ||= Results ||
 * renewable resources ||= 2,387 ||
 * "renewable resources" ||= 786 ||

3. Boolean logic is a method of clarification that is used to focus internet searches. Common terms to include with search terms are AND, OR, NOT. I practiced using boolean operators on the site Boolify. This is an interactive tool that uses puzzle pieces with words on them such as "word" "and" "not" "or" used to experiment with boolean phrases. The search is very quick...you don't even have to hit a button of any kind in order to initiate the search. The strategy is successful because it found some pretty cool sites. I would recommend this to my students.

4. There is an easy method to find out who owns a website. Just copy tk12he URL and paste it to http://www.easywhois.com I looked up the website of a professional organization that I'm a member of. [|http://www.abmp.com]. I learned that the site is registerd by Enom, Inc [|www.enom.com]. Registrant Contact: ABMP, 1271 Sugarbush Dr., Evergreen, CO 80439. Administratice Contact: Les Sweeney, les@abmp.com Technical Contact: Tim Lieberman, tlieberman@o2group.com

5. I used [] and opened the "Root Zone Database" which listed the top-level domains. I did not see .k12 and .sch on the list, so I typed **domain + use+ .k12** into Alta vista and found both.

.aero members of the air-transport industry .asia restricted to the Pan-Asia and Asia Pacific community .biz restricted for business .com generic top-level domain .coop reserved for cooperative associations .edu reserved for post-secondary institutions accredited by an agency on the U.S. Department of Education’s list of Nationally Recognized .gov reserved exclusively for the United States Government .info g eneric top-level domain .jobs r eserved for human resource managers .k12 official designation for public k-12 schools by states in the U.S. .mil r eserved exclusively for the United States Military .mobi r eserved for consumers and providers of mobile products and services .museum r eserved for museums .name r eserved for individuals .net g eneric top-level domain .org g eneric top-level domain .pro r estricted to credentialed professionals and related entities .sch second-level domain used by several countries including Iran (.ir), Saudi Arabia (.sa), and the United Kingdom (.uk), as a subdomain to represent primary and secondary schools .tel r eserved for businesses and individuals to publish their contact data .travel r eserved for entities whose primary area of activity is in the travel industry 6. I went to altavista.com to look up sailing schools in the United Kingdom. I typed host:ac.uk sailing + school. A full list of domains is at [] the computer high-tech dictionary. 7. I looked up biology websites on a​ltavista.com by searching host:gov + biology  there were 7,920,000 results. USGS Biological Resources Division: [|http://biology.usgs.gov]   Developmental Biology—NCBI Bookshelf: [|www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bookshelf/br.fcgi?book=dbio]  Computational Molecular Biology NIH [|http://] [|molbio.info.nih.gov]  Genome Biology--NCBI [|http://] [|www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Genomes/index.html] Soil Biology [|http://] [|soils.usda.gov/sqi/concepts/soil_biology/biology.html] Biology Department—Brookhaven National Laboratory [|http://www.biology.bnl.gov] Science.gov topic Biology and Nature  <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> [] 8. 9. 10.