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Finding Information on the Internet: Table of Contents

Finding Information on the Internet: Table of Contents
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Archimag Skills for Online Searching - ipl2 A+ Research & Writing Learn how search syntax works Search syntax is a set of rules describing how users can query the database being searched. Sophisticated syntax makes for a better search, one where the items retrieved are mostly relevant to the searcher's need and important items are not missed. It allows a user to look for combinations of terms, exclude other terms, look for various forms of a word, include synonyms, search for phrases rather than single words. Boolean logic Boolean logic allows the use of AND, OR and NOT to search for items containing both terms, either term, or a term only if not accompanied by another term. Wildcards and truncation This involves substituting symbols for certain letters of a word so that the search engine will retrieve items with any letter in that spot in the word. Phrase searching Many concepts are represented by a phrase rather than a single word. Proximity Capitalization Field searching All database records are divided up into fields. Index and abstract of a document

Great Books Lists: Lists of Classics, Eastern and Western As seen in A Guide to Oriental Classics, Whole Earth magazine, Winter 2002. (A revised version of the article is available at author Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools site.) This page: Introduction | Western Canon | Eastern and World Canons | Contemporary Canon | Other Lists of Great Books | My Reading Lists | Indexes to these Great Books Lists Introduction Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) What are the Great Books? Western Canon Eastern and World Canons Approaches to the Asian Classics. Contemporary Canon Other Lists of Great Books Other Lists of Great Books - An annotated bibliography of some other sources of Great Books lists, both in books and on the Web My Reading Lists My Reading Lists (Ancient Near East, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, China, Middle Ages) Indexes to these Great Books Lists

Thesaurus.com | Free Online Thesaurus of Synonyms and Antonyms Live Training – Search Education – Google With these webinars, you can improve your own search skills and learn how to bring search literacy to your school. Browse the archive of past trainings, and make sure to follow us on Google+ to stay up to speed on the latest tips and trainings from Google. Even better search results: Getting to know Google search for education Google makes it simple to find the information you need, but there are strategies for finding higher quality sources even more easily. Power searching: Advanced Google search for education When you realize that the information you want will be a presentation or PDF, what can you do? Beyond the First Five Links Looking for new ways to motivate students to look beyond the first five links in a search engine? Modern search literacy: Leveraging literacies to get the most from popular tools Once you've run your search, how do you interpret your results for the highest impact? Sensemaking: Organizing information to gain better understanding Writing Successful Queries Pt.

The Philosophy Pages T he Philosophy Pages is an online library of philosophy and theology texts, including selected writings of philosophers from anicent times to the contemporary period, including Plato, Aristotle, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Pythagoras, amongst many others. The site has been active since 2006 and is currently undergoing redesign work. If you would like to contribute to the site or have any questions, email philosophy@davemckay.co.uk . Facebook Page - Visit the Philosophy page on Facebook ! Anaximander - Surviving Fragments. Aristotle - Collected Works. Bertrand Russell - Selected Writings. Chinese Classics - The Four Books, Five Classics and the Classics of Military Science. David Hume - Complete Writings, including posthumous works. Diogenes of Sinope - Biography from Diogenes Laërtius’ “Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers”. Ralph Waldo Emerson - Complete Works in twelve volumes. Epicurus - Surviving Fragments, Letters and Documents. Heraclitus - Surviving Fragments.

Deep Web From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Deep Web) Deep Web may refer to: businessinsider Academic Earth | Online Courses | Academic Video Lectures Web profond Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Ne doit pas être confondu avec darknet. Ne pas confondre[modifier | modifier le code] Ressources profondes[modifier | modifier le code] Les robots d'indexation sont des programmes utilisés par les moteurs de recherche pour parcourir le web. On peut classer les ressources du web profond dans une ou plusieurs des catégories suivantes : contenu dynamique ;contenu non lié ;contenu à accès limité ;contenu de script ;format non indexable. Voir aussi la section raisons de la non-indexation qui donne plus de précision. Taille[modifier | modifier le code] Une étude de juillet 2001 réalisée par l'entreprise BrightPlanet[1] estime que le web profond pouvait contenir 500 fois plus de ressources que le web indexé par les moteurs de recherche. En 2008, le web dit « invisible » non référencé par les moteurs de recherche représente 70 à 75 % de l'ensemble, soit environ un trilliard de pages non indexées[2]. Web opaque[modifier | modifier le code] Portail d’Internet

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