Seek and You Shall Find?!?

How many times do people hear the statement, “You can find what you’re looking for on the web”. For many people the web, with its seemingly endless amount of information, is intimidating. They know what they want is on the web—but WHERE???? One of the topics covered in my latest class has been a very rewarding indeed. I have been introduced to Google Noodle and through time spent I have discovered a rich array of search engines that deal with specific types of searches. I have also learned about the difference between meta searchers, subject directories, gateways, and subject-specific databases. By using Boolean logic, quotation marks, + and – signs, lower case letters, the * which is the wildcard symbol, I have been able to narrow down my experimental searches and actually get the results I was looking for. All of the information I acquired in this lesson was invaluable and I intend to pass it on to my fellow instructors and to my students. After all, what good is information if you can’t find it????