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InfoHelp's Interactive Guide to searching the World Wide Web |
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Starting a search (15 minutes)
Basic searching, multiple search terms, excluding terms, phrase searching
Features you may have missed (15 minutes)
How Google caches, handles similar results and describes each hit
Some search tricks (10 minutes)
Stop words, punctuation, calculations, spelling, definitions - and finding email addresses
Going further in your search (10 minutes)
Finding images, news items, hand-picked results and scholarly materials
Advanced search techniques (10 minutes)
Searching for synonyms and alternative search terms, and complex searches
Refining and limiting searches (15 minutes)
Limiting by language, document format and source - plus translating and finding helpful hints
Evaluating and citing results (10 minutes)
Avoiding mistakes, and using your results correctly
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