[CASL-L] Booleon search terms - do you teach them?

[Dawn M. Zillich]

This is what I use when teaching students a better way to use Google if
they really don’t want to use Google Scholar:



Searching specific Website:

Use the following example shows how to search only within a single site:



Example: *Lent site:http://romancatholicblog.typepad.com/
<http://romancatholicblog.typepad.com/>*

*               Book Review site:nytimes.com <http://nytimes.com>*



Searching topic in title:

The query *intitle:term* restricts results to documents containing term in
the title.



Example: *flu shot intitle:advice* will return documents that mention the
word “advice” in their titles, and mention the words “flu” and “shot”
anywhere in the document (title or not).



Putting *intitle:* in front of every word in your query is equivalent to
putting *allintitle*: at the front of your query. In other words, *allintitle:
google search Tips*.



Example *allintitle:death penalty catechism*



Narrow or widen a search:

Adding a plus or minus sign allows you to narrow or widen your search.



            Examples: “*civil war” +US +history*

*                              “civil war” +US +history -Wikipedia*

*                              Cancer -Lukemia*



Searching topic in inurl:

            Example: *inurl:cancer*



(Words in the Text) + Title, URL etc.



If you want to find a webpage where one term appears in the text of that
page and another term appears elsewhere on the page, like the title or URL,
then type in that first term followed by intext:followed immediately by the
other term.



Example: “*linear* *algebra” intext:google*



Specific Document Types:

Find results that are a file type, (presentations, images, documents, etc).

Example Search: "marketing strategies" filetype:ppt

Ongoing research?
Set a Google alert so you get continuous updates. Visit Google News
Initiative.



Hope this helps,



Dawn M. Zillich, librarian

St. Paul Catholic High School



“For last year's words belong to last year's language. And next

year's words await another voice.” ― T.S. Eliot, *Four Quartets*







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*Subject:* [CASL-L] Booleon search terms - do you teach them?



Hello everyone,



I wanted to know if you teach Booleon search terms (and,or, not) for more
effective searching when using keywords?  Can someone clarify for me (I
feel awful about not knowing) why when trying these search terms they do
not always work?  Are they only effective when using databases vs. using a
search engine to look something up?  My TIS and I were trying them in hopes
of helping students learn these strategies, but did not find anything that
worked the way we wanted when we tried them.  Am I missing something?
Thanks for your help!



Respectfully,



Loretta Sullivan

Library Media Specialist

Bennet Academy

Manchester, CT



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