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Basic Internet Tutorials
| The Learn the Internettutorial guides
you through the basics of the Internet and how to use email to communicate
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How Do I Search
| An introductory workshop on simple
searching which also prepares for more advanced searches. |
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| A thorough tutorial from USC Beaufort Library
on searching and understanding the web. |
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| Search EngineWatch offers instruction
on how to do advanced searches on the major search engines. |
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Searching Engines
| Ask Jeeves allows you to easily search
the Internet by asking a question. It also includes possible related
searches at the bottom of the site to help refine your search. |
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| Google is a newer popular search engine
that ranks search hits by popularity. |
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| With the click of a button,Ixquick searches 14 other search engines, and ranks them by relevancy. |
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| The metacrawler search engine searches
many different engines such as Yahoo, Excite, AltaVista, and Lycos.
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Search For People
| Canada 411 searches all of Canada's
white pages and is great for finding both individuals and businesses
in Canada. |
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| The Yellow Pages searches businesses
phone numbers in Canada and the United States. |
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| Bigfoot.com searches its USA database
of over 100 million white pages listings and 8 million e-mail listings. |
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Search for Pictures
| Google Image Search allows you to view
thumbnails of the images you are searching for, with a link to not
only the page it came from, but the image itself. |
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| Altavista photo search allows for the
searching of photos and graphics over the web. |
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Having Problems?
If you are still having problems searching, you might want to try:
- Being more specific with your search. For example, if searching
for printer drivers, instead of typing "printers", type in "printer
drivers".
- Being more general. If you aren't finding anything on your specific
topic, like HIV, maybe you should try an alternative, like diseases.
- Try a different engine, like a meta engine. A meta engine will search
different search engines, and may possibly find what you're looking
for.
- Refine your search. If when searching you find your search returning
unrelated sites, try putting quotations around certain words, like
a person's first and last name, that would be found together. Foe
example when searching for prices of flat screen monitors, try searching "flat screen monitor" prices.
If you are still having problems, please don't hesitate to contact the
CAL staff or a CAL student assistant!
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