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**Hints for more effective internet searches.**
Search engines: Google: [|http://www.google.com] - probably the most popular and very powerful search engine

Google Scholar: [] - Provides a search of scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books, abstracts and articles

Yahoo: [|http://www.yahoo.com] - also has a directory feature

 **Phrase Searching: ** Use phrase searches when you need your terms to appear in exactly the order you enter them and right next to each other. This as also very helpful when searching a person's name. To do phrase searching in most search engines just place quotations " " around the phrase. Examples: "Abraham Lincoln" "Statue of Liberty" "Egyptian mummies"

Using AND OR and NOT Most search engines assume we mean **AND** between any two words, and some will also go on to look for **OR** between the words. This typically will report a large number of sites that can seem overwhelming. Most search engines will list all of the web pages that have both words first, then all of the pages that contain either one of the words. When typing your search into a search engine, use the word AND between different ideas to ensure that the sites include both ideas.
 * Combining Ideas (Boolean Logic): **

Examples: "Abraham Lincoln" AND president "Abraham Lincoln" AND president AND "civil war"

Unfortunately, for most search engines NOT doesn't seem to work. Instead, use the minus sign (No space after it) to eliminate a word or idea.

Examples: "Egyptian tombs" -"king tut" for information about tombs in Egypt other than King Tut's tomb.

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