WEB SEARCHNG

Assalamulaikum, for this week after 1 week holiday for mid semester break, i learn about web searching. In this new generation, i could not say that people nowdays dont use web searching when they use internet. We always use, but we dont realize how they works and how the process and more. After i learn this topic i know many thing about the web searching. It is more easier to me when i know how to put the keywords at the web to find exactly what i want. So i want to share to you how they works and tips to make your works more easier :)

Browser
• Can be defined as a software application used to locate
and display web.

• Popular browser

-IE (Internet Explorer)
-Nestcape
 -Mozilla Firefox
-Safari
-Opera
- Mosaic
-Google Chrome



Searching : Pattern Matching Queries

• It is also called Fuzzy Query.
• You can enter “ungrammatical sentences”, “incomplete
sentence fragments”, “disjoint phrases”, “nonsense
words”.
• The search engine gets a collection of keywords.
• Required keyword: Mark with “+” before the keyword.
• Prohibited keyword: Mark with “-” before the keyword.



Searching : Boolean Query

• A Boolean Query is a query that consists keywords but
with logical operators (AND, OR, NOT).
• X AND Y – will return URLs that contain both X and Y.
• X OR Y – will return URLs that contain either X or Y.
• X AND NOT Y – will return URLs that contain X and do
not contain Y.

Searching Tips

• Be natural
– Is cell phone harmful?
– Ask the search engine : “Cell phone” AND harmful

• Capitalize
– Always use lowercase
– star will search “Star, STAR, stAr, …”
– Type “Star” unless you really want to search “Star”.

• Use uncommon keywords
– The more specific results will return to you.
– Think a valid and uncommon keyword.

• Require words
– Add a “+” before the keyword.
– It will be in every match.

• Exclude words
– Use “-” before the keyword.
– In what situation should we use?

• Correct Spelling
– Beware of the differences between English and
American spellings (Color, Colour)- (color OR
colour).

• Stop words
– Ignore the most common words “the, is, …”
– “searching the web” and the search engine will ignore
“the web”.
– Add more relevant keyword.

• Use wildcards
– Use “*” in some search engines.
– “funk*”  funk, funky, funkiest

• Solve dead links
– If the search engine returns
http://www.hit.com/a/b/c.html which is a dead link.
– You can try http://www.hit.com/a/b/
– Or http://www.hit/com/a/ …

• Use different resources to find/search different kinds of information.
• Use successive query refinement to achieve effectivesearch queries.
• Think carefully for the keywords typed in the search engine.
• Use Boolean queries when you need combinations of keywords.


You can also visit this site if you want more information about web searching.
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/10-things/10-tips-for-smarter-more-efficient-internet-searching/

But if youre the person that not really hardworking to read all that, i give you two video so that you can easily see how to do it. Click this link below to watch that video.
http://motto.time.com/4116259/google-search/

Thats all from me today , i hope this blog will help you in web searching ;)