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Mary's NET11 Blog

This blog is in the form of a 'learning log' for my online studies @ Curtin for NET11.

Module 4: Boolean Search Task

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

My next task was to search with the same keywords 'advanced internet users' and think of a strategy for getting the best results for the following questions.

I searched using Google for this task.


  • the biggest number of hits relating to these key words


1. (internet AND users) advanced
282,000,000

2. internet OR users OR advanced
279,000,000


BEST RESULT

3. (advanced) internet AND users
291,000,000

My best result was 3.

I achieved this by specifying Google to first search for advanced, then follow it with internet users.


  • sources relating to skills-based information on these key words.

BEST RESULT

1. "advanced internet users"

18,000

Searching with quote marks surrounding the words made sure they were all included in any document Google returned. I found that I got lots of skills-based web sites for advanced internet users using this method.

  • information coming only from university sources

BEST RESULT

1. "advanced internet users" site:.edu

895,000

Searching with site:.edu meant that all results returned were from educational sources.

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