Welcome back! LIS1001 Information and Technology for Searching May 2017, Ulrich Werner, Lecturer
Your first assignment Some of you have a problem.
In this course 102 students 15 points 1 13 points 1 10 points 1 5 points Identified the Quagga … 0 points 4 CFC 10
… and this time, it was so easy. Just read what you see.
Narrowing a search to get the best results Level 1 Created by: Tasha Bergson-Michelson Kathy Glass
You need photographs of Manchester United in action How do you find that?
YouTube
Google Books Looking for full‐text (“free”) books?
Operators NOT OR site: filetype: define:
Narrowing a search to get the best results Level 3 Created by: Tasha Bergson-Michelson Kathy Glass
Martin Luther King: I have a dream I have a dream I have a dream speech “I have a dream” speech “I have a dream” speech “Martin Luther King” “I have a dream” speech “Martin Luther King” 28.08.1963 260.000.000 74.300.000 13.100.000 941.000 378
But: Why a standard search on Google? Remember: Garbage in = garbage out
Always: Analyze your search results and re‐define your search terms. That’s the secret of those students who get best marks for their assignments.
Assignment I read at http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/ that the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus is endangered from extinction. Should I use that in my homework? Please reason in detail.
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