Lesson Two: More Search Engines and Boolean Searching

Go to the InFoPeople site and print out the Search Tools Chart . Note the Boolean column and Other Search Options column.

Most search engines have built in help menus and give advice on how to search effectively.

Begin with Yahoo:

• Open the Yahoo Canada site.
• Choose Help from the top of the screen.
• Choose Searching Yahoo from the General Issues section.
• Next choose Search Basics.
• Open Intro to Yahoo Search and print out the page that opens up.
• Return to Search Basics and open up What is Advanced Search and print out the page.

Using Boolean Searching Techniques

The University of South Carolina Beaufort Library site has a good page on boolean searches. You can find it by clicking here. Check out Lessons 7 and 8. Print out the pages.

Using the Wildcard (*)

Sometimes you may miss sites because you used the keyword 'begin' and the site with all the information used the work 'beginning'. If you type in the keyword as begin* it will pick up 'begin', 'beginning' and even 'begins'.

Applying What You Learned

For each of the following use advanced search with at least three keywords.

Find out information about Louis Armstrong when he played at the Savoy Ballroom in New York

Find the best rated wines grown in the Loire Valley in France

Check out genealogy sites related to your birth place.

Choose a topic of interest to yourself and try an advanced search