Exercise  12

1.  You are doing a Google search on echinacea and want to exclude commercial sites from your results. What is your search? 

2. Look at your results from the search above. If you click on the link "Cached" you will see where your search terms were found. Go ahead and try it for one of the results! 

Do you also know when the "Cached" feature comes in handy?

3. Search plant eating.  Number of results: _______

    Search eating plant. Number of results: _______

What's your conclusion comparing the two searches?  What made a difference?

4. Search where is Taj Mahal. Number of results: _______

    Search "where is Taj Mahal". Number of results: _______

What's your conclusion comparing the two searches? What made a difference?

5. Find a picture of Taj Mahal using Google "Images."

6  Back to basic Google searching...

      Search fossil. Number of results: _______

      Search fossil -watch. Number of results: _______

What happened in the second search?

Now, click on "Advanced Search."  Where would you type in the keyword terms you want to exclude from your results?

7. Stay in Google Advanced Search. 

Search resume writing. Number of results: _______

Now repeat the same search, but force resume writing to show ONLY in the title of the results. Number of results: _______

8.  Let's try some other fun Google searches!

    Find what the weather in Athens, Greece, is today.  Type in weather Athens, Greece

    Find what time in Athens, Greece it is right now.  Type in time Athens, Greece

    Type in: 7+(11-3)=  What's the answer?

    Find what's showing in Bend.  Type in movies 97701  (97701 is our main zip code for the city)

Wasn't this fun?!
 

9. Finally, let's try some other tools for web searching...  You are doing research on poverty. Instead of Google, what web tools could you use to find the most "credible" information over the free web?