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Lecture 1

Common Folders that you need

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 \dataserver\jinnah$  \assignments\jinnah$  \it86\usbshare$  \it87\usbshare$  \it88\usbshare$

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Web Searching

Web Search Engines

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 Designed to search for information on the World Wide Web.  Information consists of  Web pages  Images  Videos  Maps  ……….

Google Search

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 Search is simple  just type whatever comes to mind in the search box, hit Enter or click the Search button, and Google will search the web for content that's relevant to your search.

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Efficient Searching Tips

Search within a specific website (site:)

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 Google allows you to specify that your search results must come from a given website.  For example, the query [ islamabad site:jang.com.pk ] will return pages about Islamabad but only from jang.com.pk.  You can also specify a whole class of sites, for example [ Pakistan site:.gov ] will return results only from a .gov domain and [ Pakistan site:.pk ] will return results only from Pakistani sites.

Terms you want to exclude (-)

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 You can exclude as many words as you want by using the - sign in front of all of them  For example [Pakistan -politics].  The - sign can be used to exclude more than just words.  For example, place a hyphen before the 'site:' operator (without a space) to exclude a specific site from your search results.  Pakistan -site:jang.com.pk

Fill in the blanks (*)

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 The ***** , or wildcard, is a little-known feature that can be very powerful.  If you include ***** within a query, it tells Google to try to treat the star as a placeholder for any unknown term(s) and then find the best matches.  For example, the query[ Obama voted * on the * bill ] will give you stories about different votes on different bills.  Note that the * operator works only on whole words, not parts of words.

The OR operator

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 Google's default behaviour is to consider all the words in a search.  If you want to specifically allow either one of several words, you can use the OR operator (ALL CAPS). For example, [ Earthquake 2005 OR 2009 ] will give you results about either one of these years, whereas [ Earthquake 2005 2009 ] (without the OR) will show pages that include both years on the same page.  The symbol | can be substituted for OR. (The AND operator, by the way, is the default, so it is not needed.)

Calculator

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 To use Google’s built-in calculator function, simply enter the calculation you’d like done into the search box.

Unit converter

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 Use Google for a quick conversion, from yards to meters for example, or different currency.

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Search Results Options

Filter results by type of content

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 Everything:  By default google include all the types of content below.  Images :  See only results from Google Images.  News :  See only results from Google News.  Books :  See only results from Google Books including reviews, excerpts, and where you can buy the book.  Videos :  See only video results using Google's Video Search.  Blogs :  See only results from Google Blog Search.  Places :  See only results from Google Place Pages.  Shopping:  See only results from Google Product Search.