More Search Strategies

	Teaching Guide	Final Activity
	Conducting your search	Glossary
	Search Tools	Home

• If you have too many "hits," narrow the search by:

• Picking a more specific keyword
• Adding a keyword
• Using the AND operator
• Finding a new search angle (different key concept)
• Using NOT

• If you have too few "hits," widen the search by:

• Using fewer terms
• Shorten keywords (cat will find cattle, too)
• Using OR

• Other:

• Use quotations to group and make case sensitive
• Use parentheses

• Ten Tips for Fast Web Searching (from World Wide Web Searching for Dummies, 2^nd edition, by Brad Hill (Foster City, CA: IDG Books; 1997)

• Turn your graphics off
• Use multiple browser windows
• Use your Back button
• Use the Go or History list to leapfrog
• Make fast search decisions
• Use your hotlist (or bookmarks)
• Knock twice (try again if no answer)
• Build a boookmark list
• Ask directions in newsgroups
• Avoid Web prime time

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