Conducting your Search

 

by Rowena Namoca, Nancy Willis, and Craig Cunningham

  Final Activity
  Conducting your search Glossary
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Your search strategy should always begin by asking yourself - "What do I want to do?" Some questions that you should consider in the early stages of your search should include the following:

  1. Do I just want to browse?
  2. Do I want to locate a specific piece of information?
  3. Do I want to get everything that I can on the subject?

Your answer to these questions should determine how you should conduct your search and the appropriate tools that you need to use:

  1. If you simply want to browse, use a subject directory like Yahoo and then enter your search keyword(s) to see what's out there. (Yahoo can be used both as a subject directory AND as a search engine.)
  2. If you're looking for a specific information, go to a search engine such as FastSearch or Google.
  3. If you want to locate everything that you can possibly get regarding a particular topic, perform the same search using several search engines.

More Search Strategies are listed here.

To learn which search tools you should use, click here.

 

 

 
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