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Tips for Online Searching

Using   "Quotation"

           Have you ever had a time when your searching for something but all the results were just not what your looking for? Ever felt frustrated because you can never find exactly what you want? well, using quotations is a good way to narrow down your search results to exactly what your looking for. When searching, use quotations around the important/main idea words in the sentence. This tells the browser that these are the main subjects that you want when searching. Thus, it makes the browser take out sites that are not qualified. Quotations are beneficial when used in finding a specific subject like book titles, historical events, explorers in the middle ages, events on the news, etc. For instance: You are a science teacher. You want a easy science lab that your high school students can replicate. you search up: easy Science labs for high school students. However, you get 2,320,000,000 results and most were inaccurate. You then add quotations around the words that were important. "Easy science labs" for "high school students". The results were narrowed down to 2 results that helped you come up with the perfect lab.

I wish I knew that when I    was in school.

So useful.

Using -Dashes-

         Adding dashes to your searches can get rid of unwanted search results. In order to do this, you just type in something that you want to search up, then right after, type in: -(something that you don't want to appear in your search results). REMINDER: each subject that you don't want to appear you must put a dash before the word. By doing this, you are telling the search engine that you don't want that subject to appear in your result, which narrows down the outcome. Dashes are good when used in finding anything that may have multiple, unwanted conclusions. For example: Going back to the previous reference, you type: easy science labs for high school students. Yet, end up with 2,320,000,000 results. However, you then add in dashes and type out the unwanted items. Easy science labs for high school students - project - kids - hard - PDF. In the end, your search result was 141, 000, 000. 

Using *Asterix*

I never thought of that.

Me neither.

             Have you ever had a time when you forgot the words in a quotes in a poem or the lyrics in a song? Well, using asterix in a quote or song tells the search engine that you don't know what the words are and that it's a quote/saying/song lyric. To do so, just type out the quote/song lyric/etc and replace the missing words that you don't know with an * (asterix). Asterix are good when used to find a quote, song lyric, a saying, etc. For instance: You had to find a quote that you like for your About Me digital literacy assignment. However, you only know some of the words and type: the difference between ... are and ....be is what you do. Instantly, you get 1,900,000,000 results. Which are inaccurate and not what your looking for. Instead, you put in asterix where your missing words were. The difference between * are and * be is what you do.  Immediately, you have 13,200 results instead. Which most are accurate. You may have to do so a couple of times.

Wow , that's so cool!!

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