ISP IP URL Browser Terms b Browser b
ISP IP & URL Browser
Terms b Browser b Search Engine
Your Speed
USA vs. SK
California
Options b Internet Explorer b Firefox b Google Chrome b Apple - Safari
Searching the Internet
What is the best search tool?
Choose your search tool Book b Movie Theatre b Journal Article b Shopping b Software b University Program b Dictionary, Terminology b Instructional Video b • • • (Amazon. com) http: //www. blockbuster. com & http: //movies. aol. com/ ERIC Ebay Amazon Yahoo Directory Wikipedia & http: //www. thefreedictionary. com/ Sunburst & United Streaming
Examples b http: //www. zillow. com
Dictionary b http: //www. thefreedictionary. com b http: //www. m-w. com/ b Reliability
Auto Info http: //www-odi. nhtsa. dot. gov/index. cfm b • NHTSA information on recalls, TSB’s, defects, etc http: //www. fueleconomy. gov/ b • Vehicle fuel economy ratings http: //www. safercar. gov/ b • Vehicle safety ratings http: //www. nhtsa. gov/ b • National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration http: //www. epa. gov/greenvehicles b • Environmental vehicles ratings
Limiting The Search b. Be specific. . . b. How to use computers in teaching surfing? Computer applications in high school math teaching
and & or ignored by google California OR Denver California AND Denver expensive car + red chair Use the - sign to exclude disney -california -land -movie -tv
10 Keywords Limit b Google b a, ignores “stop words” about, and, are, as, at, be, by, from, how, i, in, is, it, of, on, or, that, the, this, to, we, what, when, where, which, with
Search Tips
related: b will list web pages that are "similar" to a specified web page b related: www. starfalls. com
Wildcards b "don't ask country * ask" b “Isaac Newton discovered *”
File Type b "First amendment" filetype: ppt
Adobe Portable Document Format (pdf) b Adobe Post. Script (ps) b Lotus 1 -2 -3 (wk 1, wk 2, wk 3, wk 4, wk 5, wki, wks, wku) b Lotus Word. Pro (lwp) b Mac. Write (mw) b Microsoft Excel (xls) b Microsoft Power. Point (ppt) b Microsoft Word (doc) b Microsoft Works (wks, wps, wdb) b Microsoft Write (wri) b Rich Text Format (rtf) b Shockwave Flash (swf) b Text (ans, txt) b
intitle: global warming b Intitle: Google will restrict the results to documents containing that word in the title. b allintitle: Google will restrict the results to those with all of the query words in the title.
Domain=Site psychology site: com psychology site: edu textbook site: www. csulb. edu
inurl: b Google will restrict the results to documents containing that word in the url
Calculator b (5+1)**2 b 3^20 b sqrt(16)
Unit conversion b half a cup in teaspoons b two pounds in kilograms b 160 pounds * 4000 feet in Calories
Currency Conversion b 150 British pounds b 100 Mexican pesos
Define b define: "noble gas“ b define: "democracy"
Area code b 562 b 714 b 818
phonebook: (714) 389 -0460 b b b b first name (or first initial), last name, city (state is optional) first name (or first initial), last name, state first name (or first initial), last name, area code first name (or first initial), last name, zip code phone number, including area code last name, city, state last name, zip code
Local search b Italian food 90025
Google ++ • Blogger • Picasa • Google Calendar • Sketch. Up • Desktop for Windows • You. Tube • Google Docs
AGoogle navigation bar BSearch field CSearch button DAdvanced search EPreferences FSearch statistics GContextual navigation HIntegrated results IPage title JText below the title KURL of result LSize MCached NSimilar pages OIndented result PMore results QPlus Box results RRelated search terms
Synonym search For instance, searching for ~ranch yields results relating to cattle, horses, and farms.
Weather b weather long beach
Time b time London
Spell Check b camputer
info b will present some information that Google has about that web page b info: www. lbusd. k 12. ca. us
Order of Your Keywords b california movie b movie california
stocks b stocks: aapl msft macr
Package tracking b 1 Z 9999 W 999999
Movie showtimes b movies 90803
Airline Travel Info b american airlines 18
Patent number b Patent 5123123
Book Search (limited) b enter the name of the author or book title into the search box b Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"I'm Feeling Lucky" b takes you straight to the most relevant website that Google found b Rezaei csulb
Range Search b DVD player $50. . $100 b 5000. . 10000 kg truck b Willie Mays 1950. . 1960
cache: b Google will highlight those words within the cached document b cache: www. csulb. edu library
link b The query [link: ] will list webpages that have links to the specified webpage. b link: www. csulb. edu b link: www. lbusd. k 12. ca. us
Search Tips b http: //www. google. com/intl/en/help /features. html
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