“Kid’s Search”Searching the internet

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Key words

• Once you start a keyword search going, the tool search may search for:

• Subjects with the word or words you entered• Web site names that contain that word or words• Web site descriptions that contain that word or

words• Actual web pages that have that word or words

somewhere on the page

Key words : Be Specific

What exactly are you searching for?

• Dog ? 427,000,000

• Dogs? 195,000,000

• Sled Dogs? 561,000

• Sled dogs Antarctica? 128,000

Quotation Marks

Using quotation marks: this is where you tell a search engine to give you pages where the words appear exactly in the order you specify.

Try searching for • “sled dogs Antarctica” 3,560 Sled dogs Antarctica is more like to be in an abbreviated

description of the site so by refining the phrase the search may refer to web pages only.

• “sled dogs in Antarctica” 312

+ and -

• + brings up pages that have all the words in them but they may not be together.

• - removes any sites with that word.Try searching for:• “sled dogs in Antarctica” -film 50 • “sled dogs in Antarctica” -film -book 6• Try searching for:• Sled dogs +huskies in Antarctica 13,600• Sled dogs +huskies in Antarctica -film 1,960• Sled dogs +huskies in Antarctica -film -book 1,190• Sled dogs +huskies in Antarctica -film -book -movie 875

OR

• Sometimes the same thing is known by more than one word. By using OR we are finding possibly separate sites that have these words in them.

• eskimo OR inuit• Mount Taranaki OR Mount Egmont

So now lets try:• “sled dogs OR huskies in Antarctica” -film -book -

movie 5 results!

define:

• Defines a word or phrase

• Define: inuit• Aboriginal people in northern Canada living generally

above the tree line in the Northwest Territories, northern Quebec and Labrador. ...ednet.edc.gov.ab.ca/nativeed/nativepolicy/Glossary.asp

Site:

• Searches only particular sites

• Antarctica site:edu

Ctrl F

• Use Ctrl F to search for words or phrases within a page.

http://www.aad.gov.au/MediaLibrary/asset/MediaItems/ml_388954678356481_05%20Running%20with%20huskies.pdf

Great Search Engines for Kids

• http://yahooligans.com

• http://ajkids.com

• http://www.kidsclick.org

• http://www.dogpile.com/

• http://kids.quintura.com/

• http://www.google.com/Top/Kids_and_Teens/

Multimedia Searching

• http://ditto.com/ specializes in pictures

• http://kids.yahoo.com/ pictures, sounds or video clips