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Da Vinci Code +Book – only brought up websites
about the book +The
Da Vinci Code +Movie – only brought up websites
about the movie. +The
Da Vinci Code + Catholics – brought up information
about the controversy |
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– symbol will search for a certain word but eliminate pages that include the
subtracted word. This would be good
for searching about celebrities and series to narrow down exactly what you
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Brad
Pitt –Angelina Jolie brought up information about
Brad without going through all the stuff with Angelina Jolie. If you do this search through Yahoo! The
first thing you get is a Brad Pitt paper doll (just what I always needed!!) CSI
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“Quotation
Marks” will allow people to search websites that have the exact words in the
exact same order. |
“Stacey
Kahler” I love searching my name, but of course it
the real me is only on 2 pages. “Buddy
Phillips” I didn’t know you were a county sheriff!!! “Buddy
Phillips” + “ |
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site: _______ will help you find specific sites from
that area. This is another way to
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Music
site: gospel - came up with only gospel music sites. It didn’t bring up anything from the bible. Broadway
site: Mary Poppins – brought up sites about the
musical Rubric
Site: edu – let me see different rubrics in the
educational arena. |
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When
I searched for Anime – I got a lot of different information by just searching
in Japanese then in the whole web. “Ich bin ein Berliner” in German
websites to see if J.F.K. really called himself a jelly donut as my German
teacher told me years ago. Well, in
German websites it touched on it once, but in many |