Part
5.4
Search Index/Google
Narrowing
Your Search
If you've done a search using a few keywords, and have
a lot of results, you can narrow your search just by adding more keywords.
For example, we searched for Civil War Generals, and
got many results. This search can be narrowed by adding keywords:
"Union Army Civil War Generals". Or even more narrow:
"Union Army Civil War Generals wounded".
Excluding
Terms
Sometimes you may want to keep Google from including
some pages in your search. For instance, if you want to search for
Bass, but not bass fish, use "Bass -fish". Make sure to
include a space after the "-".
GoogleScout
GoogleScout
is a kind of reverse lookup - it finds sites similar or related to
a result site.
If you searched for "Alaska University" then
clicked on the GoogleScout link, you will get a new page of results
containing links to other Alaskan Universities, University of Alaska
sub-sites (such as Geophysical Institute), links to information abou
Alaska, Universities in the United States, and pages that link to
the University of Alaska.
GoogleScout is a good way to see what's related to a
page, and to expand a search to similar topics that may not have come
up using your initial keywords.
The Search
Index Revisited
This section has focused on Google, an excellent example
of a search index. There are many other search indexes availabie
- the search index is the most common type of search site available.
Most work by typing in keywords and getting pages of results. Google
has many features other Indexes do not, like GoogleScout and "I'm
feeling lucky" which makes it one of the best Indexed available.
Part 7 has a list of different
Search Index sites.
Next up is Meta Search
Sites, or you can jump back to Search
Directories.
