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Search engine tutorials

Take a look at a search engine tutorial! It is worth the time. Really! Think about all the results you have to sort through in order to find the site you are really looking for. By learning how to use the more advanced features of the various search engines and directories, you will know how to formulate queries that give you fever and more relevant hits. And it is not difficult, either.

Below find some search engine tutorials that will teach you how to find information on the Web.

The Pandia Goalgetter Search Engine Tutorial

The Pandia Goalgetter Web Search Tutorial gives you a short and easy introduction Internet searching. But do not take our word for it! NetIntro has called the Goalgetter "an excellent tutorial", and continues: "[It is ] Written with a sense of humor. Very good presentation of true Boolean searching."

The tutorial also tells you about other ways of refining your queries, including the popular "search engine math" method, were you use plus and minus signs in order to tell the search engine what words must -- or must not -- be present in the hit list. Furthermore, the Goalgetter gives a presentation of the various types of search services you can use.

• Pandia Goalgetter Search Engine Tutorial

UC Berkeley tutorial on finding information on the net

Pandia has taught you the basics of Internet searching. Where do you go now? We suggest you take a look at the UC Berkeley Library's tutorial on finding information on the Internet. It is huge, up to date and gives you detailed searching instructions for all the major search services. Researchers and librarians should definitely take a look.

• UC Berkeley tutorial

Search Help Center

Search Help Center offers many handy tools for improving internet searching. Among them is the Effective Internet Search Tutorial. It offers advice to improve your searching in several ways, including: refine your queries, try advanced search features, and finnd out how search engines work.

• Seach Help Center's Effective Internet Search Tutorial.

Bare Bones 101, a basic tutorial on searching the Web

Bare Bones 101 from the South Carolina Beaufort Library calls itself a basic tutorial, but do not let that fool you. The tutorial includes 20 lessons on how to search the Web more effectively, including eight lessons devoted to eight of the most important search sites. There is a chapter on library gateways and specialized databases, others on search strategies and on how to evaluate the content of websites. This search engine tutorial is highly recommended!

• Bare Bones 101

See also:

• The Pandia Plus list of online search engine tutorials
• The Pandia Bookstore's reviews of books on Internet searching