HOW TO USE GOOGLEOR ANOTHER SEARCH ENGINE

Lisa Huelle, LMSDardanelle Middle School

To Google or not? First of all, you should try the Library

Databases that you can access while at school

Much of the research you will need at DMS can be found in those databases

Occasionally you need information that cannot be found on the databases, Google is a good search engine to use to look for that information

Why Google? Google is not the only

search engine out there – other common search engines are ask.com, Bing, and Yahoo

Google tends to be a good general search engine to use for educational purposes

Advanced Search Using Google Have students use the “Advanced

Search” on the right of search bar on the Google home page

Depending on what the student is searching for top two lines in the blue box of the advanced search need to be filled out carefully

The top line says “Find Results---with all these words”

The second line says “Find Results---with the exact phrase”

Advanced Search Continued

In the second line put the exact thing you are searching for (ex. Benjamin Franklin)

In first line then put the topics that will narrow down your search (ex. Inventions)

The information searching for will be more specific

Another important step is to go the Domain – searching for .edu or .gov will give students fewer and more reliable resources to use than resources that have a .com URL

Searching for one domain at a time seems to work better

Hit Enter to get results

More Google Search Tips A well done search on Google should

result in quality results – therefore students should not have to go to the second page to find information.

If a student does not find what they are looking for on the first page of results, they should do another advanced search using other keywords that would narrow down the results even further

Using Boolean terms – and, - or, and –not will also narrow down the search results.

Google is a business and usually the first two results on a page are sold to businesses, so do not use