This week's assignment is on truncating and exploring our search tools .
I explored Alta Vista and it's advanced search page is incredible! It lets you search by sited domain, pages written only in certain languages, file formats, it has safe search filter, it allows all boolean commands, truncating and or and " " Quotations.
The Digital librarian references a huge database of search tools it allows you to search the search engines and cuts out the spam and commercial sites. It allows truncating, quotation marks, and and/or statements.
Metacrawler offers advanced search which and it has spiders that crawl the web looking in deep and open web to allow exact phrases, none of these words, and any of these words. It allows to excvlude or include a domain.
Hi, Donald:
ReplyDeleteI know that most times a Google search is good enough and Google has amazing advanced search options but I thought it would be fun to explore other ways of searching and organizing information online. Glad you enjoy the hunt.
Cheers,
Andrea