Two types of search sites:
Index sites provide tables of categories-- Yahoo,
About, even Google
(click on Directory)
Straight search engines -- Google,
Alta Vista, Lycos,
many more
Search
techniques,
Be specific; use several words: Napoleon Russia Moscow 1812
Want Texas Rangers, the law enforcers, not the baseball team? Use the
minus sign:
Texas Rangers -baseball (put a space before the minus
sign)
Power
Searching Use quotation marks to find a phrase "deep space
nine"
Boolean
searches Using AND OR and NOT in your search
Search Engine Watch
http://searchenginewatch.com/
Details and comparisons of search engines:
http://searchenginewatch.com/links/major.html
Teoma.com search engine
http://www.teoma.com/
Enter a term and click Search. Then look on lower right for list of
"Resources: Link collections from experts and enthusiasts."
This gets you pages that have lists of links.
link: and host: features of
Altavista
http://www.altavista.com
If you enter link: shorecrest.org you'll find pages that
contain links that lead to shorecrest.org.
If you enter host: shorecrest.org you'll find pages that
shorecrest.org contains links to.
Quick check for plagiarism:
Copy or enter distinctive phrase from a student's work, put it
inside quotation marks in Google. See what comes
up.
There are also subscription services like Turnitin.com,
Eve, and Plagiarism.com.
Some offer free trial copies you can download.
Search for images on the Internet:
Google -- click on Images
-- enter key terms. Or go to Advanced Image Search to
customize search in many ways.
Overture Bids Tool
http://www.overture.com/d/USm/about/sl.jhtml
Who is behind those Sponsored Links? How much are they paying?
WHOIS Lookup at Register.com
http://www.register.com/
Enter domain name -- see what variants of that domain are registered,
and by whom, and what's the contact's e-mail address? Follow that to
related sites.
Why would you want to look that up? Well, suppose you find a link
to http://www.martinlutherking.org
(what would you expect to find there?)
What kind of site is it really? Who made it? What can you find out
about them from WHOIS?
Alan November -- Teaching Zack to Think
http://www.anovember.com/articles/zack.html
Zack was doing research on the Holocaust and came upon this URL:
http://pubweb.acns.nwu.edu/%7Eabutz/di/intro.html
which is linked to in this personal home page:
http://pubweb.acns.nwu.edu/~abutz/index.html
Zack knew that "nwu.edu" meant the page was at Northwestern
University, so he figured it was a good source.
But -- the /~abutz/ part indicates this is in a
"personal subdirectory" (as would /users/abutz/ ),
space made available for unofficial material, hobbies,
avocations.
And the impressive-looking links on the page all refer to other pages
by the same person, which is not a sign of good scholarship.
If you look up "Arthur Butz" on a search engine, you find
references to "Holocaust denial" and the like.
National Archives -- Source
documents and teacher plans
http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/teaching_with_documents.html
To view (as an image) an original document of Richard Nixon's:
http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/jackie_robinson/nixon_draft.html
-- and click on View Pages.
There are many other original source documents available on this
site.
Reference Desk -- other types of searching
http://www.refdesk.com/
Deconstructiong a URL (Uniform Resource Locator, an Internet address)
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Web Page |
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http:// |
www. |
shorecrest.org/ |
Calendar/ |
cal.html |
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Directory |
Directory |
Directory |
Web Page |
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http:// |
pubweb.acns |
nwu.edu/ |
~abutz/ |
di/ |
dc/ |
deaths.html |
You can edit the URL in the Address or URL line in your browser. If a particular path doesn't work, delete parts of it. A directory usually contains a default or index page that will appear if no specific html document is specified.