Module 4 Tasks - Boolean Search Task

Taking the same key words of your last search, think about how you would best search for the following:

• the biggest number of hits relating to these key words
• sources relating to skills-based information on these key words.
• information coming only from university sources

• Discuss your strategies with the class and record the exact search terms you used in your learning log

The biggest number of hits would be by using the 'OR' function. This function would look for results containing any of these words. Google came up with 2,620,000,000 hits.

To find sources that relate to skills-based information on these key words, I used inverted commas with the AND function. "Advanced Internet Users" AND "Skills Based". This only came up with 18 hits, but funnily enough many were NET11 related. Go NET11 team!

To limit the search to information coming only from university sources, I made a rule to only look for those results with a .edu domain. This still resulted in 829 000 hits. I then tried using Copernic with the search: Advanced Internet Users.edu. This resulted in 20 hits.