PLAYING

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PLAYING THE GAME
fall 2006
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Make work for you !
SAVE TIME SAVE EFFORT GET RELIABLE RESULTS
YOUR OBJECTIVE less and more relevant hits
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PERFECT, EDIT and NARROW your search using

• keywords
• not (-)
• phrase marks
• domain searching
• filetype searching

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• KEYWORD SEARCH-
• use descriptive, specific words
• pick your words wisely
• do not include the small words articles and
  prepositions such as a, the, of, in
• truncate
• use synonyms

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INCLUDE OR DO NOT INCLUDE (Boolean)-
(and) will search for both words but not
necessarily together (assumed) - (not)
will search for the first word but not in the
context of the second example ford lincoln,
ford -car (note no space)
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PHRASE SEARCH- two or more words use
quotation marks around a group of words or
phrase to search for the entire string of
words examples Ancient
Egypt War of
the Worlds
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DOMAIN SEARCH- site narrow a search by
specifying where the search engine should
look for information
example siteedu siteorg
sitegov sitefr http//www.iana.
org/cctld/cctld-whois.htm
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FILE TYPE SEARCHING- filetype you can
search by file type such as pdf- Adobe
printables ppt- Microsoft Power Point xls-
Microsoft Excel doc- Microsoft Word example
filetypepdf
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STRING SEARCHING- use a combination of
keywords, phrases, boolean terms, domain
and filetype specifications up to 10
words in a search string
example bill -buffalo new york state sitegov
filetypepdf
www.google.com/