This worksheet is designed to accompany Seven Steps Towards Better Searching. Print it out (reduced to 90%), record your answers, and think about why the numbers came out that way.
+Atlantis
~250,000
The final search shows only
what? and excludes what?
+Atlantis -shuttle
+Atlantis -shuttle +continent
+Atlantis -shuttle +continent -film -movie
mushrooms
The second one has more hits
because...
mushroom*
surf*
The second one has fewer hits
because...
surf* -surface*
San Diego
These are the same
because...
"San Diego"
merits of laziness
These are different
because...
"merits of laziness"
Octopus
octopus
WebQuest
The search that finds the
most sites is... because?
+webquest
+webquest*
link:http://www.clpgh.org/cmnh/tours/egypt/walton.html
link:edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/webquest.html
frog*
The sites found in the second
search are...
title:frog*
webquest
The sites found in the second
search are...
title:webquest