Stacey Kahler

SLM 521

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The + symbol will make sure that all the words that you put into the search engine will be in the pages that come up.  You can modify it by adding any words to make your search more specific.

+The 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

The – 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 are looking for.

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 –New-York-Miami – brought up info not expected and info about the original series but nothing about the two CSI spin-offs.

“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” + “McDaniel College” came up with three websites.

______ site: _______ will help you find specific sites from that area.  This is another way to narrow your search.

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.

For advanced searches (on Yahoo!) or Language Tools (on Google) you can check the search to include only websites in the U.S. or any other country.

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 U.S. websites it was declared as a hoax.  That J.F.K. was correct in what he said.