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| Guess | One way of finding the URL for a site is the process of "taking your best _______". |
| Ask | One way of finding the URL for a site is to ______ colleagues, friends, or groups with similar interests to yours. |
| Directories | One way of finding the URL for a site is a lists of URLs classified according to subject matter; use search engine companies, libraries, government departments., or universities that compile directories for more specialized subjects. |
| Portal Site | One way of finding the URL for a site is using Web sites specialized to a narrow subject field. |
| Search Engine | One way of finding the URL for a site is using information collected in database and searches performed using keywords. |
| Advance Search | One way of finding the URL for a site is using a compiled search using Boolean logic. |
| Search Field | One of the fastest ways to find information on most Web sites. |
| Directories | A lists of URLs that have been compiled and classified according to subject matter. |
| Spiders | Special software which “crawled the Web” and capture relevant information. |
| Search Engine Companies | (SECs) use similar technology |
| Punctuation | Characters like comma, period, or slash treated as space character, or phrase to be searched. |
| Quotation Marks | Quotes around search text treated as phrase to be searched. |
| + and - Signs | Include (+) or exclude (-) certain keywords from inquiry. |
| Casing | Use lowercase text to get URL list that also includes capitalized keywords. |
| Wildcard Characters | Use ? to search for one character whereas * searches for any number or type of characters. |
| AND, OR, NOT and NEAR | Most often used Boolean terms |
| Boolean terms | Similiar to the plus and minus (tools to find items on the Internet), but allow much more powerful searches. |
| Searching with AND | Use this search tool when you are searching for multiple items in a single document. Your search will include only documents with all your search terms. |
| Searching with OR | Use this search tool for your documents that include one or anjother of your search terms. e.g., cnet OR "the computer network", "big blue" or "IBM". |
| Searching with NEAR | Use this search tool to look for terms in the same document within ten words of each other. For exampe, cancer breast NEAR breast will return documents containing "studies on breast cancer" and also "latest statistics for cancer in the breast". |
| Searching with NOT | This search tool is used in conjuction with AND. For example, tennis AND NOT Wimbleton will return documents on "tennis" but which do not contain "Wimbleton". |
| OR | Is an inclusive search option: find and include any links that match either value. |
| XOR or EOR | Is an exclusive search option: find and exclude any links that match either value. |
| Parentheses | Use this search tool to group terms together and prioritize your results, e.g., (coffee OR decaf) AND cream. |
