The Media
internet searching, checking websites for reliabilty
Deffinitions
- Reliablity: The quality of whether or not a site is trust worthy
- Validity:"having some foundation; based on truth"
Internet Search Techniques
Basic Search Operators
- this that thing
returns all pages containing the terms "this", "that", and "thing"
- this OR that
returns all pages containing either the term "this" or "that"
- "this that and the other thing"
returns all pages containing the exact phrase "this that and the other thing"
- this -that
returns all pages containing the term "this" but not the term "that"
- this +that
returns all pages containing the terms "this" and "that"
- define:this
returns a definition of the term "this"
Search Query Modifiers
site: The site: modifier is used to limit search results to pages from a specific site.
allintitle: The allintitle: modifier is used to limit search results to pages containing all of the given search terms in the title.
intitle: The intitle: modifier is used to limit search results to pages containing a specific term in the title.
inurl: The inurl: modifier is used to limit search results to pages containing a specific term in the URL.
date: The date: modifier is used to search pages from within the previous 3, 6, or 12 months.