Diane L. Judd, Ph. D. 
Dept. of  Early Childhood
College of Education 
Valdosta State University
"Resources For Teaching and Learning"
Integrating Technology into the Curriculum

Tips For Searching The Internet

Internet Search Tips
Example
Use a comma to separate several names that are linked together.
William Clinton, President
When using a phrase search use quotation marks.
"school technology plan"
When searching for words that must appear within one word of each other use hyphens.
technology-educational
Capitalize the first letter of each word when searching for a proper name of a person or company. 
Thomas Edison 
Use brackets to find words that appear within 100 word of each other.
[computers education]
Add a plus sign when you want to find a document that must have those two or more words in it or a minus sign to avoid certain word combinations.
school+technology 

dog-hot 
If you want to find an image place a colon between the word image and the image topic.
image:tornado 
Use and asterisk to find all combinations of a word or word fragment. The example edu* will locate web sites that contain education, educational, educator, and so on. 
edu*

For more information see Lisa Roberts's article, "Web Searching Made Easy" in Learning and Leading With Technology, 1997, v.24(8), page 60-62.



 
 


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