Module 4 Tasks Contd

Searching the Web

Boolean Search Task

"Taking the same key words of your last search, think about how you would best search for the following:"

• the biggest number of hits relating to these key words

'advanced OR internet OR users' returned 2,850,000,000 results in Google.

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

For this search i used Metacrawler and searchedadvanced AND internet AND users AND skills. It came up with 87 results, which appeared to be relevant to skills-based information.

• information coming only from university sources

For this i used Metacrawler again, however i selected the option to search only .edu documents. It came up with 49 results by searching 'advanced AND internet AND users'