Searching the Web (w/ techniques)
Search Result by Date or Range
(FORMAT) Before: , After: , range #..#
Utility Search
(FORMAT) Define: , Related: , $ , @ , Weather:, Map:, Movie:
Search By File Type
(FORMAT) filetype:
Search Using Source Operators
(FORMAT) intext, intitle, site:
Search By Location
(FORMAT) loc. | nearby | near me
Search On a Specific Site
(FORMAT) site:
Search Result by Date or Range
- Examples: best movies Before:2023 best movies After:2021 best movies 2021..2023 The results that the search engine will give us will depend on the date given.
Web Page
Can embed a variety of different types of resources.
Search Using Source Operators
Discovering Specific Titles and Text on a Website with this Simple Trick.
Algorithm
Each search engine uses this to rank the pages based on what it thinks you want.
(Right Questions) Watch your words
Every word is meaningful • Terms matter • Order matter
Search Engine
Ex: Ecosia, Brave, Yahoo, Google, Bing, DuckduckGo
Search By File Type
Ex: Filetype: doc (Search Query). All results will be in the form of doc. Kung anong type of document ang nilagay, lahat ng results ay nasa ganoong type rin.
Web Browser
Ex: Microsoft Edge, Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera-Browser, Brave
Search On a Specific Site
Ex: Scratch Program site:mit.edu. All results or articles that will come out will be only from the site we have provided.
Search for Exact Phrase
Example: "Baking a cake". All the results a search engine will give back will have "Baking a cake" in its title or content, in the same order and same composition of your search query enclosed by ".
Exclude From Search Result
Example: "chuchu cosmetics" - tiktok. All results will be about "chuchu cosmetics" but websites like tiktok will not be found.
Utility Search
Example: define:love
Search * Words
Example: how to * a guitar. This will command the search engine to find possible results that will fit and fill in the missing word.
Search Using Source Operators
Example: intext: coffee intitle: chocolate site: Starbucks.* Here, the word coffee will be found in the content or thoughout the text/composition of the draft. Then the word chocolate will be found in the title. Then the results will be comoing from the website of starbucks only.
Search By File Type
Find any type of documents online with a specific topic by using this formula.
Search * Words
Find missing words in phrases by using the star technique. Just place the star signs around the missing words.
Search for Exact Phrase
For an exact phrase search, with the same words in the same order, you may enclose your search term with this unit.
Search Index
For each page the spider visits, it RECORDS any information it might need for a search by adding it to a special database called ___________.
Algorithm
Google invented the most famous ________ for choosing the most relevant results for a search. They take into account how many other Web pages are linked to a given page.
Exclude From Search Result
If you are searching for something and don't want certain information to appear in your search you may use this variable before the keyword to exclude in the search.
Search * Words
If you are uncertain of what you should search for, or if you do not know the term you will include, you may use this.
Search On a Specific Site
If you want to search for a specific result from a specific site then use this technique.
Boolean Operators
In this method, three words, or operators, act as commands, these are: AND, OR, NOT.
Web Browser
It acts as an interface between a user and the internet.
Web Browser
It allows users to view and interact with web pages.
Machine Learning
It enables search algorithms to search out not just individual letters or words on the page but also to understand the underlying meaning of the words.
Utility Search
May use these different techniques to get information
Search Using Source Operators
Once you have used the format, the desired and selected words will appear either in the title (intitle) or throughout the body (intext). This helps minimize the scope of information on the internet.
Website
Provides explicit links, (usually in the form of clickable portions of text), that allow the user to move from one page of the website to another.
Web Browser
Retrieves information from web servers and displays it on the user's device.
SPIDER
Search engines are constantly running a program which is called _____.
Web Page
Such documents are written in the HTML language (which we look into in more detail in other articles).
HYPERLINKS
The internet is a web of pages connected by these.
and, or, not
The three operators tell the computer to do specific things with your keywords.
Web Page
These resources may be style information, controlling a page's look-and-feel scripts, which add interactivity to the Page media — images, sounds, and videos.
PAGE RANK
This algorithm promotes the idea that if lots of websites think that a web page is interesting, then it may be the one you're looking for. (Named after Larry Page, co-founder of Google.)
SPIDER
This crosses through web pages to collect information about a certain topic.
Web browsers' goal
To provide users with a seamless and secure browsing experience.
Machine Learning
To understand the words better, we use a type of artificial intelligence.
Utility Search
Used to search for a particular string in a dataset or members of a PDS.
Search Engine
Usually provides a list of results that match your query, which is the word or phrase you type in the search box. (
Search Result by Date or Range
You can search your desired result in a specific date range.
Have google finish your question
You may start typing some words then you can let google decide what results it will give. For example: once you typed in "how" there will be a lot of search results waiting to be clicked.
Search By Location
You may use this formula if you need to find a specific result considering a specific location.
Search By Location
coffee near me loc:santarosalaguna All coffee shops that will appear will only be found within the location na pinrovide like ung santa rosa laguna.
(Right Questions) Be thoughtful
• Begin with a simple query • Be precise • Avoid unnecessary terms • Break your query to smaller questions
Search Engine does not care about:
• Spelling • Punctuation • Capitalization
Web Browser
A software application that allows users to access information on the World Wide Web.
Search Engine
A software program that helps you find information on the Internet by searching a database of web pages, images, news, and other types of data.
Website
A collection of linked web pages (plus their associated resources) that share a unique domain name.
Website
A collection of related web pages; can contain images, video, or other digital formats
Web Page
A hypertext document connected to the World Wide Web.
Search Engine
A program that searches for and identifies items in a database that correspond to keywords or characters specified by the user, used especially for finding particular sites on the World Wide Web.
Web Browser
A program used to view Web pages.
Web Page
A simple document displayable by a browser.
