NET 11: Module 4 - Searching the web

Boolean searching 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
* information most relevant to what you ACTUALLY wanted to look for!
* information coming only from university sources

LOG ENTRY:
Discuss your strategies with the class and record the exact search terms you used in your learning log

Well since this log has to be done by tomorrow, the first part of the log entry "discuss your strategies with the class" is just not gonna happen. Not been a good study period for being up to date enough to interact with the class (not that I've wanted to with the limited free time I've had either -.-).

Original search terms = adobe photoshop under linux

Biggest number of hits = If we're going for sheer numbers then - adobe OR photoshop OR under OR linux = 2,630,000,000 hits. If the aim is big numbers plus some semblence of relevance then adobe OR photoshop OR under linux works better but has less hits with 33,900,000.

Most relevant information = adobe AND photoshop AND under linux (276,000 hits if you're curious).

Info from uni sources only = (adobe AND photoshop AND under linux) AND university. While this query doesn't return alot of university documents, this is mostly due to the subject matter.

For an example of how this query works try this search: `(climate AND change) AND university`, as apposed to: `climate change`.