Search Strategies
Author
Information Checked
Domain Suffixes
Identify Terms
100
The search engine that allows you to type - and + in the search bar
What is bing?
100
The criteria that makes an author qualified?
What is educational background and/or eyewitness?
100
Sites that are checked for accuracy and separated into categories (information stored similar to a tree diagram)
What is a subject directory?
100
Name domain suffix for colleges in the US
What is edu?
100
Google, Bing and Yahoo are examples of this
What is a search engine?
200
The search term that would limit a search to only edu?
What is domain:edu or site:edu?
200
Places to look for the author's name
What is top of page, bottom of page, about us links, etc?
200
Sites that are checked for accuracy and you must pay to access them and login in with an id and password
What is a subscription databases?
200
Domain name for schools (k-12) outside the US?
What is sch?
200
Identify the domain name in the following URL: http://shakespeare-online.com/quotes/romeoquotes.html
300
Name 3 boolean operators used in advanced searches?
What is AND (+), OR, NOT (-)?
300
Degree that makes one qualified to write about nuclear fission.
What is physics or chemistry or nuclear engineering?
300
Government subject directory (hint: has today in history link)
What is the library of congress (loc.gov)?
300
US Military suffix
What is mil?
300
Name the type of page that has a ~ in the URL (for example: iona.edu/~jpeters/history.html)
What is a personal page?
400
The search term that would allow me to search for anything that has George Washington in the title
What is title:"George Washington" ?
400
Site (URL) to find the owner of a web page
400
Location to access TUS subscription databases?
What is Moodle Library page?
400
Domain suffix for a company in Canada?
What is co.ca?
400
ipl.org is an example of this
What is a subject directory or domain name?
500
Search term that will only search the New York times website?
What is site:nytimes.com or domain:nytimes.com?
500
Site (URL) to find the history of a web page
What is archive.org?
500
TUS id and password to access TUS subscription databases?
What is ursulinehs and look?
500
Domain suffix for a college in Thailand
What is ac.th?
500
reason quotes are used in searches with more than 1 term
What is a 1 search phrase?