Finding Stuff on the Internet. What is the Internet?
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Finding Stuff on the Internet
What is the Internet?
The Search Engines
• Google • Search Globe• Bing• Zanran (data search; try “anglophone
montreal”)• Watchthatpage.com• Internet Archive/Wayback Machine• DarkTor
Searching Databases
• Data Catalogs• Data Hub• Get The Data
Search tips• Find a file type filetype:pdf• Search with a domain site:ca • Search within a site site:www.glasses.com• Seach exact phrase “search”• Exclude search terms inception -movie• Boolean search terms AND and OR• Reverse image search go to IMAGES and look for camera• Advanced search• Search for words in text allintext:alligator holiday, allintitle:flu shot,
allinurl: bbc news• Find news related to location fire location:paris• Wildcard A * in the hand is worth * in the bush• Look at http://www.google.ca/insidesearch/tipstricks/all.html
The Filter Bubble