Imagine that you’re interested

in the legendary lost continent

of Atlantis. There have been

several movies with Atlantis in

the title, but you’re not

interested in them. You are

also not interested in the

space shuttle Atlantis. Try this

search…

Here’s how to search for it

badly:

all these words: Atlantis

Write the

number of

hits you

get below.

38,800,000 hits

Now try this:

all these words: Atlantis

continent

any of these unwanted

words: shuttle film movie

287,000 hits

Here’s another search to try:

all these words: Waterbury

one or more of these

words: Vermont VT

any of these unwanted

words: Connecticut CT

318,000

What strategy was used in the

above search.

We used what was suggested

Query

# Of Matches

You’ve heard of a fine public

university in the lower left

corner of the United States

and you want to know more

about it. Try this search…

Here’s how to search for it

badly:

all these words: San Diego

State University

Write the

number of

hits you

get below.

Search through a

number of pages

and examine the

types of hits do

you get.

exact wording or phrase:

San Diego State University

4,710,000 hits

Through 3 pages, all hits referring to schools

Here are some more searches

to try:

exact wording or phrase:

Bill 602P

7,510 hits

Something about a hoax, 5 cent emails, and voting on it.

exact wording or phrase:

We know he has weapons of

mass destruction

1,100,000 hits

· President Bush

· Mass Destruction

· Wars with Iraq

· Political stuff

exact wording or phrase:

demonstrating genuine

leadership

106,000 hits

President Bush

Bill 602P

Political stuff

CNN or Fox News

You found this Romeo & Juliet WebQuest that

you really like. Are there more like that where

this one came from?

Start here:

http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/education

/projects/webquests/shakespeare/

Now trim away the last part:

http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/education

/projects/webquests/

What do you see?

Trim it again, Sam:

http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/education

/projects/

http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/education/

http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/

http://oncampus.richmond.edu/

Now try this:

A friend told you of another cool Shakespeare

WebQuest and emailed you the URL:

http://www.longwood.k12.ny.us/wmi/wq/collin/index.html

That URL turned out to be wrong, though.

Can you find the real URL, and see if there

are other worthy WebQuests at the same

site?

The real URL is : http://www.longwood.k12.ny.us/

Query

# Of Matches

Suppose that you’ve discovered

Tapped In, an online community

of educators, and you’re

wondering what else like that is

out there. Using Google’s

similarity search will surface a

number of sites that are likely to

interest you.

Find pages similar to the page:

http://www.ssischool.org/

Write the

number of

hits you get

below.

59 hits

Another way to explore a domain

is to find out who else is linked to

a page. Who else finds Tapped In

useful enough to include on one

of their pages?

Find pages that link to the

page: http://www.ssischool.org/

4 or 27

Here’s another search to try:

Find pages similar to the page:

kids.msfc.nasa.gov

27

Find pages that link to the

page: kids.msfc.nasa.gov

606