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Web Search Strategies in Plain English

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Subido el 12 de febrero de 2009 por EducaMadrid

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A short video designed to help you get more from your web searches.

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The web may seem like a vast ocean when it comes to finding something you need. 00:00:00
Thankfully, search engines can help turn oceans of information 00:00:04
into small pools that make finding information easier. 00:00:08
This is web search strategies in plain English. 00:00:12
Before we dive in, let's talk a bit about how search works on the web. 00:00:16
Search engines go out and try to account for every word 00:00:20
on every web page. All this information is then organized for easy reference. 00:00:24
When you search for a word, the search engine finds 00:00:28
all the pages where the word appears and displays them in the search results. 00:00:32
Usually, the pages that appear highest in the search results 00:00:36
have lots of other web pages linking to them. Each link acts as a 00:00:40
vote to say, this may be a good resource. 00:00:44
The problem is that there are often too many results. 00:00:48
You need a way to reduce the number of results so you can find what you need. 00:00:52
Let's look at how this works. Say you're looking for a specific 00:00:56
kind of fish, and these represent all the websites on the web. 00:01:00
Searching for fish doesn't help much. There are way too many results. 00:01:04
You need to be more specific. Try to imagine the exact 00:01:08
fish and describe it in the search box. You'll see that each word 00:01:12
you use gets you closer to what you need. You can do this 00:01:16
for any website by imagining the website that has your answer. 00:01:20
What's the title of the page? What words appear on it? 00:01:24
If you put those words in the search box, you'll get closer to finding answers. 00:01:28
But to be a smart searcher, you should know some basic shortcuts. 00:01:32
Let's say you're looking for words that appear together, like a phrase or quote. 00:01:36
An example is a search for information on sand sharks. 00:01:40
If you search for it like this, the search engine looks for pages with sand 00:01:44
and sharks. To get better results, put quotes around 00:01:48
the words, like this. It limits the results to the exact phrase. 00:01:52
Here's another shortcut. Words often have multiple meanings. 00:01:56
Consider the word mullet, which is both a fish and 00:02:00
a hairstyle. A search for mullet may give you a number of results 00:02:04
about the hairstyle, but fewer about the fish. To remove 00:02:08
the results about hair, place a hyphen or minus sign just before 00:02:12
the word you want to exclude, which means, show me the pages about mullet 00:02:16
but take away results relating to hair. 00:02:20
By being specific, and using words and symbols that remove useless information, 00:02:24
you can find exactly what you need and keep the web from swallowing you 00:02:28
whole. I'm Lela Fever, and this has been 00:02:32
Web Search Strategies in Plain English, on the Common Craft Show. 00:02:36
One more thing. The Common Craft Store now offers downloadable versions 00:02:40
of our videos for use in the workplace. Find them at 00:02:44
com.com.store. 00:02:48
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Idioma/s:
en
Autor/es:
The Common Craft Show
Subido por:
EducaMadrid
Licencia:
Reconocimiento - No comercial - Sin obra derivada
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693
Fecha:
12 de febrero de 2009 - 13:30
Visibilidad:
Público
Enlace Relacionado:
The Common Craft Show
Duración:
02′ 51″
Relación de aspecto:
4:3 Hasta 2009 fue el estándar utilizado en la televisión PAL; muchas pantallas de ordenador y televisores usan este estándar, erróneamente llamado cuadrado, cuando en la realidad es rectangular o wide.
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