SEARCH STRATEGIES

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SEARCH STRATEGIES SEARCH TOOLS
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FIVE STEP STRATEGY

• Analyze your topic to decide where to begin
• Pick the right starting place
• Learn as you go vary your approach
• Dont bog down in any strategy that doesnt work
• Return to previous strategies better informed

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USING THE INVISIBLE WEB

• When to use the invisible Web
• Data is in format search engines do not recognize
• Data is in database that must be queried before
  the data can be retrieved
• Search engine does not know that Web site
  containing the data exists
• Search engine has chosen not to index that site
• Commercial search engines
• Finding invisible databases

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KEEPING UP WITH CHANGES

• Pay sites
• Free sites
• Virtual Chase http//www.virtualchase.com
• Law Library Resource Xchange http//www.llrx.com
• Search day http//www.searchenginewatch.com/search
  day/index-php
• Search Engine Showdown http//www.searchengineshow
  down.com
• Site-tation http//www.lawtechnology.org/site-tati
  on/home.html
• Law technology news http//www.lawtechnologynews.c
  om

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Finding old web pages

• http//www.archive.org
• Specific bits of data
• Try the word database and then search terms
• Favorite for stock quotes http//www.finance.yahoo
  .com/q/hp?s
• Can use archived pages on Google

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FINDING INFO ON BLOGS

• Daypop http//www.daypop.com
• Blogstreet http//www.blogstreet.com