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Start your search here: Google (now officially a verb!) A-9 (Google-based, A9 catalogues your searches!) Ask (start with a question...) Ask X (evolving brother of Ask) GigaBlast (neighbour of new kid on the block) CFE WebQuest Page (links to the best resources) NoodleTools (Terrific search strategies!) Dushkin (More on How to Search) Quirky Google Searches (our other page!) Boolean tutorial (the language of searching) 10 Search Tips (mini-search lessons) Bates Information Services (search skills expert!) Effective Searching (via Media-Awareness.ca)
Googling Tools: Gmail (free mail with lots of space!) Google Docs (word processing and spreadsheets) Calculator (try your most complex queries) Google Print (book contents are searchable!) Google News (up-to-the-minute global news) Google Maps (zoom in and around North America) Google Sightseeing (the work of map browsers) Language Translation (Klingon-PigLatin) Google Answers (pay for an answer or read on...) Blogger (create an e-diary of sorts) Google Earth (satellite imagery of the world!) Groowe (multiple search engine toolbar for Explorer) Staggernation: Word Proximity Search FaganFinder (Google on steroids) Anacubis (visual search) Scirus (ask a science question) Exalead (the new kid on the block) Teoma (refine your search bit by bit) Librarians' Index to the Internet The Wayback Machine (Internet Archive) Brainboost (Simply type in your question)
A Few Favourite Links
Canajun Notebook (everything Canada!) Wikipedia (encyclopedia written by us?!) Answers.com (do you have questions?) World News from around the World How Stuff Works (the name says it all) Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators Protopage (a quick sticky-notes desktop page) Writely (an online collaborative writing tool)
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Googling Tips: "quotation marks" will look only for sites with the specified words in the same order dash between words is inclusive suspect plagiarism? Input a string of up to ten keywords in quotes + ensures a word is present on a page - ensures a word is not present on a page ~
includes synonyms of the search word Try word stubs to increase hits (eg., assess. will search assess, assessment, assessing... intitle:searches the titles of Web pages allintitle:ensures that all keywords are in the titles of pages define or define: gives definitions of words info: gives details about a website and who links to the site filetype: searches for a specific type of file (PDF or PPT or RTF or others) site: searches within a specific domain or pagetype site:ldcsb.on.ca or site:edu *
for fill in the blank: orson welles died in * range: DVD player $100..300 for price range book... use this keyword to find online books link: finds sites that link to a specific domain or will find sites to either of two keywords and is understood if two or more keywords are specified, Google automatically finds sites with all words present convert... metric to imperial, or otherwise, just input: 65 miles in kilometers or $4 in Yen calculate... simply input your favourite math problem for example:200+(9-4*8)/0.52 time in Zurick... capitalization is not specified for any search use Google's cache for faster loading pages with search words highlighted movies and postal code birthday/birthplace/die+person: birthplace trudeau databases are stored by Google google cheat sheet... shortcuts by Google
Video Tips Todd Maffin's Google Tips for CBC Researchers 1 Todd Maffin's Google Tips for CBC Researchers 2 Todd Maffin's Google Tips for CBC Researchers 3 Todd Maffin's Google Tips for CBC Researchers 4
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