81. UI Current LIS Clips: Web Searching Where are you most comfortable searching? Which service is most familiarto you? Which service has the search features you will need? http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/clips/2002_12.html

Web Searching December, 2002 - Compiled, annotated and supplemented by Janet Eke Updated 1/9/03 (see items noted in red below) Printer Friendly Version In This Issue: Becoming an Efficient and Effective Web Searcher An approach to efficient and effective Web searching Understanding search engines and subject directories Beyond engines and directories: specialized tools and the Deep Web Formulating and formalizing Web searching strategies ... More Web topics in future issues 1. An approach to efficient and effective Web searching Based on workshops developed by Janet Eke, Pat Barlosky, and Cindy Kehoe, for the Ontario Library Association, the National Technological University, and Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1999-2002). Cohen, Laura B. "The Web as a Research Tool: Teaching Strategies for Instructors." Choice Supplement to vol. 36 (1999):19-44. The Web is difficult to search. Though the Web's hypertext point-and-click environment is simple, conducting research on the Web is not. Its chaotic architecture of linking lends itself well to surfing but not to efficient information finding. (Cohen, 1999.)

82. PATSCAN - Patent And Trademark Searching quickly focus on the desired information by searching the fields The fields in mostpatent databases can be a search, the searcher should be familiar with all http://www.library.ubc.ca/patscan/basicsrc.html

You are here: PATSCAN Home About PATSCAN Site Map Contact Us SERVICES ONLINE RESOURCES LEARNING CENTRE SEARCH THIS SITE Basic Search Syntax Search syntax is the "language" used to perform a search in a search engine. Each search engine has its own peculiarities which the searcher must learn. However, there are some commonalities among all search engines. When formulating a search, the searcher must write a "search string" which is like writing a sentence in normal languages. If the construction and grammar (syntax) is obeyed, then the computer will successfully perform the search. However, since computers are essentially dumb, it is imperative to formulate the search string in exactly the correct manner. This means that if even one small mistake is made, the search will not be performed correctly. Thus, it is important to learn both the basics of search syntax as well as the peculiarities of each search engine. A search string consists of essentially three types of elements. These are:

83. On The Net, Single Searching Versus Megasearching Web site is going to be the best way of searching. due to the lack of overlap, themost effective searchers will still be those familiar with all the http://www.onlinemag.net/OL1998/net3.html

Greg R. Notess Reference Librarian Montana State University On The Net Toward More Comprehensive Web Searching: Single Searching Versus Megasearching ONLINE , March 1998 I n my October DATABASE column, I explored the size and overlap of the major Web indexes and discovered that these search engines have much less overlap than might be expected. Instead, each database has unique records. Given the number of unique items in each database and the lack of duplication, we should think about the best approach for finding information using the major search engines. Using a multiple engine search tool, such as Inference Find, Dogpile, and MetaFind, seems like one appropriate response. Unfortunately, these also have significant limitations in their processing of search syntax and built-in limits on the number of hits retrieved from each database. A second approach is to search the largest of the databases one by one, using the command language unique to each to increase the precision of the search. Both of these methods are useful, but neither fully addresses the problem of trying to run a comprehensive search of Web sites. What are the advantages and disadvantages to each approach? SINGLE SEARCH TOOL APPROACH While the lack of completeness in databases of Web sites is a problem, that certainly does not mean that these are small databases. With page counts ranging from 30 to 50 million, general searches bring up huge numbers of hits. Intelligent application of phrase, Boolean, and field searching can be used quite effectively to more precisely narrow search results.

84. Internet America Tech Support - Beginner's Guide To Searching The Web engines function pretty much the same, so, once you are familiar with the Even themost advanced Internet user has never managed to get searching down to http://support.airmail.net/begin/search.php

Beginner's Guide to Searching the Web Search engines can be great tools or frustrating experiences. Not all search engines live by the same rules, not all of them have the same information listed, and not all of them stay up to date. Some search engines are geared toward academics, others toward a young, hip audience, and still others specialize in only one subject area such as law or medicine. With a little search savvy, however, you can use them to find destinations on the information superhighway with ease. Internet America has included two search methods directly off its home page . Both of these search engines are provided and maintained by a company called LookSmart. The first is a subject-based search and the other is a search engine where you enter a key word or phrase. Depending on your needs you may use one or both of these features. All search engines function pretty much the same, so, once you are familiar with the LookSmart search engine, you will feel at home at any search engine you may want to try. Subject Based Searches Text Based Searches Text based searches are a little trickier. Getting used to one search engine and mastering it is good advice. You can't miss Internet America's text based search on the home page (www.airmail.net). Below where it says "Search" is a blank rectangle that you can enter the word or phrase of interest. To start the search hit the "Go!" icon next to the search field. It will take a little while for the search engine to compile all the data requested and return the results. The results will be in the form of a list of links.

85. Craig Burton Weblog Blog Searching Monday, April 16, 2001, Blog searching. If you have played with the themes on mostFrontier sites, and the Bryan Bell’s name sounds familiar to you, it is http://www.craigburton.com/2001/04/16

86. Text Searching In Bugzilla this guide is on regular expression (regex) text searching because they give themost versatility and precision, so, for those who aren't familiar, this guide http://www.mozilla.org/bugs/text-searching.html

The Mozilla Organization At A Glance Feedback ... Search Text Searching in Bugzilla By Sean Richardson Often a query including a well chosen text search pattern can result in a list of bugs that has both more relevant and fewer irrelevant bugs than would be listed if a simple substring was used. That translates directly to less time wasted repeating similar queries or looking through long bug lists. With experience, and some background knowledge about how the various text search types available in Bugzilla work, you can make Bugzilla queries that are faster and better targeted. This guide is designed to provide you with enough background knowledge and real-life examples to be able use the other text matching types mozilla offers (especially regular expressions ) and that's how you'll get the experience. Search Types Bugzilla provides six types of text searches within the Summary, the description and comments, and the status whiteboard. Often there is more than one way to do a text search, but each search type is best for some purposes: case-insensitive substring case-sensitive substring all words any words regular expression not ( regular expression ) Good for matching single words (no variations) or exact phrases case-insensitive substring case-sensitive substring all words any words regular expression not ( regular expression ) Good for the rare searches where case must match exactly.

87. Advanced Searching As more endusers search the Web, it is up to information professionals to be familiarwith the best advanced Web searching tools, the most effective methods http://www.infotoday.com/online/MayOL/zorn5.html

Advanced Searching: Tricks of the Trade by Peggy Zorn, Mary Emanoil, and Lucy Marshall Parke-Davis Pharmaceutical Research Library and Mary Panek United Technologies Research Center ONLINE , May 1996 S Despite the rapid proliferation and development of Web search systems over the past months, little attention has been devoted to the advanced features professional searchers and librarians have become accustomed to in other online information resources. Web novices and information professionals alike often overlook or miss detailed information such as: what a particular Web search system is searching how the data has been indexed how the search engine retrieves data what advanced techniques (proximity operators, nested queries, search set manipulation and combination, duplicate detection, etc.) are available In simple Web systems such as Yahoo! and Aliweb, knowing advanced search features is not as necessary because the depth of indexing and the power of the search engine is not as great. However, with more sophisticated Web search systems, the need to narrow basic keyword retrieval due to large retrieval sets using types of features available in established commercial online services is becoming painfully obvious. As the Web grows, and databases searched by the major Web search engines increase in size, the power to seek, index, and retrieve information must growalong with the information professional's knowledge of how to effectively search the Web. Typical end-users may have no trouble browsing and locating information on uncomplicated topics, but constructing complex search queries using sophisticated Web search engines is another matter entirely. End-users may increasingly rely on information professionals for complex Web searching, much as they do for online commercial databases.

88. Slide #100 Monograph Nevertheless, searching for the earliest forms of cartography is a continuing Themost familiar artifacts presented as the oldest extant cartographic efforts http://www.henry-davis.com/MAPS/Ancient Web Pages/100mono.html

Slide #100 TITLE: The Earliest Known Map DATE: 6,200 B.C. AUTHOR: unknown DESCRIPTION: The human activity of graphically translating one's perception of his world is now generally recognized as a universally acquired skill and one that pre-dates virtually all other forms of written communication. Set in this pre-literate context and subjected to the ravages of time, the identification of any artifact as "the oldest map", in any definitive sense, becomes an elusive task. Nevertheless, searching for the earliest forms of cartography is a continuing effort of considerable interest and fascination. These discoveries provide not only chronological benchmarks and information about geographical features and perceptions thereof, but they also verify the ubiquitous nature of mapping, help to elucidate cultural differences and influences, provide valuable data for tracing conceptual evolution in graphic presentations, and enable examination of relationships to more "contemporary primitive" mapping. As such, there are a number of well-known early examples which appear in most standard accounts of the history of cartography. The most familiar artifacts presented as "the oldest extant cartographic efforts" are the Babylonian maps engraved on clay tablets. These maps vary in scale, ranging from small-scale world conceptions to regional, local and large-scale depictions, down to building and grounds plans. In detailed accounts of these cartographic artifacts there are conflicting estimates concerning their antiquity, content and significance. Dates quoted by "authorities" may vary by as much as 1,500 years and the interpretation of specific symbols, colors, geographic locations and names on these artifacts often differ in interpretation from scholar to scholar.

89. HoustonChronicle.com - Searching For A Surprise searching for a surprise. The most difficult part of this time of year, when teamsprepare to report to training camp, is trying to predict what team, if any http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/sports/mcclain/1501907

HoustonChronicle.com Pick a section Home Page Business Classifieds Columnists Comics Community Directory Entertainment Features Health Help Inside Story Marketplace Metropolitan Page 1 News Search Archives Site Map Space Sports Travel Weather Section: NFL Football Section: John McClain: NFL Current stories in John McClain: NFL: NFL Notebook: Talk is cheap in Tampa Notebook: Suggs off to a slow start ... Printer-friendly format July 20, 2002, 7:05PM Searching for a surprise By JOHN McCLAIN During this era of free agency and the salary cap in which the NFL is a watered-down product devoid of a dynasty such as the Packers (1960s), Steelers (1970s), 49ers (1980s) or Cowboys (early 1990s), almost every team reports to training camp dreaming of a Super Bowl. As it exists today, a time when so many teams are created equal because of the system that's in place, players and coaches play a game of musical chairs as they shuffle around the league from job to job. Somehow, the NFL is still able to give us a lot of exciting games and a playoff race that seems to have more teams in contention each season. The most difficult part of this time of year, when teams prepare to report to training camp, is trying to predict what team, if any, might become the fourth in succession to win the Super Bowl one season after failing to compile a winning record. New England (5-11), Baltimore (8-8) and St. Louis (4-12) came out of nowhere to earn the last three Super Bowl titles.

90. Business 2.0 - Web Article - Searching The Stars For Perfect searching the Stars for Perfect Vision Advanced optics US troops are armed with themost advanced weapons by cuttingedge technology from familiar names like http://www.business2.com/articles/web/0,1653,37207,00.html

Try an Issue of Business 2.0 Free! Expanded Search document.writeln(styles); document.write(form_body); FUTURE BOY TECHNOLOGY Searching the Stars for Perfect Vision Advanced optics enable the Keck Observatory to peer deeper into space. They could also help us see better here on Earth. By Erick Schonfeld January 18, 2002 E-Mail This Article Format for Printing E-Mail Delivery Sign up to have Future Boy delivered to your Inbox. Related Articles A Whole New Way of Seeing Things - January 11, 2002 Business 2.0 Laser Weapons - January 01, 2002 Business 2.0 Optical Mouse - September 21, 2001 Business 2.0 Recommended Links Optical Networking Photonic Organizations Photonics Driving up to the W. M. Keck Observatory on the 13,800-foot summit of Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii, you pass through an ancient lava flow where, legend has it, the goddess of ice-capped Mauna Kea battled the fire goddess of Mauna Loa, an active volcano at the other end of the island. The rugged terrain serves as proper preparation for the even weirder red-rock-and-snow setting up top, where the twin Keck telescopes perch on an outcropping that looks like a Martian aerie. The otherworldy ambiance is appropriate, as Keck's advanced optics are designed to help us look deeper into the universe for solar systems similar to our own. Closer to home, they might also help us see better here on Earth, particularly in industrial and medical applications. Keck's telescopes sit inside twin white domes, 85 meters apart on Mauna Kea's summit, which they share with about half a dozen other observatories. During the day, both buildings are air-conditioned to a cool 33 degrees Fahrenheit so that the telescope mirrors don't contract when their domes are opened at night. The 10-meter mirrors on the Keck telescopes make them the largest optical telescopes in the world. Weighing in at about 300 tons each, the mirrors can be moved with a mere 1 amp of current. But what makes the observatories really interesting is their adaptive optics systems which help cancel the distortions introduced by the Earth's atmosphere and their ability to work in unison, as if they were one giant telescope with a single mirror 85 meters across.

91. Review Of Daniel Schacters's "Searching For Memory" searching for memory the brain, the mind, and the past involves just the kind of thingmost people would various types of memory from the familiar shortterm vs http://skepdic.com/refuge/schacter.html

Robert Todd Carroll SkepDic.com The Skeptic's Refuge searching for memory the brain, the mind, and the past by Daniel Schacter New York: Basic Books, 1996 There is scarcely a human activity which is not affected by memory. To overestimate the importance of studies on memory seems impossible. Yet, all too often, we take memory for granted and make assumptions about memory without knowing whether our beliefs are based on fact or myth. Most of us can be excused for our ignorance, since studies of memory rarely attract the attention of the mass media. There are some notable exceptions, such as the "Memory Wars", as Schacter refers to the battle over recovered repressed memories of alien abductions or of childhood abuse and murder. Daniel Schacter makes accessible to the general reader the background information necessary to make sense of the "Memory Wars." (He devotes an entire chapter to the issue.) He provides an invaluable map of where we are in the quest to understand one of the most fundamental properties of the human mind. And he dispels a few myths along the way. In chapter two, "Building Memories," Schacter presents a sketch of a model which incorporates elements of both a neurological and a psychological model of memory. He notes that there should only be one correct neurological model (N-model), a model of how the brain and neural network function in memory, a descriptive model of functions and causal connections. But there may be several psychological models (P-models) of memory, though each of them must be true to the N-model, as well as to subjective experience, to be adequate. P-models are explanatory models, trying to help us make sense out of the experiences of remembering and forgetting.

92. The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) - Help - Junior Year - Intermediate Searching title, or you're not sure how to spell some of the words, try a fuzzy search. Thosefamiliar with regular most of your charactersearching needs can http://www.imdb.com/Help/Classes/Junior/searching-int

Top Movies Photo Galleries ... Film All Titles My Movies People Characters Quotes Bios Plots More searches Tips IMDbPro.com free trial Help Main ... How to Link to Us Intermediate Searching Advanced Searching IMDb My Movies Adding/Correcting Data Regular Expressions ... Technical Info about IMDb Junior Year: Intermediate Searching INTRODUCTION This class will teach you how to use some of the more complex search functions to refine your search parameters and find titles or people with common characteristics. QUESTIONS ANSWERED How do I locate a specific movie/TV listing with only sketchy details? How can I find movies in which [person] and [person] worked together? How can I search for just [male/female] characters? How can I find out which cast or crew [movie] and [movie] have in common? How can I found out which people/movies share certain details?

93. Seven Steps Toward Better Searching Seven Steps Toward Better searching The first step is to bookmark and become familiarwith the The most comprehensive engine out there at the moment seems to http://webquest.sdsu.edu/searching/sevensteps2001.html

Seven Steps Toward Better Searching This page is no longer being kept up to date. Google has superceded AltaVista as the premier search engine, and we've found that instead of learning 7 things, you can become a power searcher by mastering only four. Intrigued? Go to Four Nets for Better Searching To become a web Jedi master, you need to become facile with at least one search engine... so facile that doing an effective search becomes completely automatic. This state will come fairly quickly as long as you practice frequently. The first step is to bookmark and become familiar with the interface and help pages associated with each search engine you use. The most comprehensive engine out there at the moment seems to be AltaVista Most people use a search engine by simply typing a few words into the query box and then scrolling through whatever comes up. Sometimes their choice of words ends up narrowing the search unduly and causing them not to find what they're looking for. More often the end result of the search is a haystack of off-target web pages that must be combed through. You can become a better searcher by simply mastering 7 tricks in AltaVista. To help you remember them, think of a sentence so goofy you'll never get it out of your mind:

94. Web Publishing - Web Searching/Indexing - Intro most of this document is about the older UIC Search query page, you must already befamiliar with HTML to rely on the default indexing and searching, you still http://www.uic.edu/depts/accc/webpub/search/intro.html

A CADEMIC C OMPUTING and C OMMUNICATIONS C ENTER Web Searching / Indexing Contents 1 Google 2 Intro 3 What's Indexed 5 Forms 6 Output 7 Examples ... A1 Related Links Introduction Send comments or bug reports to www@uic.edu Introduction Create Your Own Search Form Bird's Eye View Make Your Files Findable Bare Minimum ... General Scheme Introduction This document will help you build a custom index and query form for your Web documents. Or, at the least, you will learn how to adjust your documents so that the existing indexing and query forms find them when they should. There are now two options , Google and UIC Search Engine. Most of this document is about the older UIC Search Engine. Consider using a custom Google Search if it can meet your requirements. If not, keep reading. Note: I assume you are already familiar with HTML. If you intend to build your own query page, you must already be familiar with HTML forms, as well. You don't need to be a programmer, but attention to detail is quite helpful. Create Your Own Search Form Bird's Eye View If you want to create your own search form, either to create your own look-and-feel or to easily search through a subset of all the pages at UIC, here are the general steps.

95. Boolean Searching Explains how to use Boolean commands and operators on the major search engines. http://www.searchenginewatch.com/facts/boolean.html

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