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	Course Homepage Course Modules: Online Community Background Information Basic Web Searching Managing Resources Advanced Web Searching Comprehensive Web Search Strategies Course Projects Assessment	More like this... (Similar Pages, Related Pages) On the second pass through the search engines, you will be using the "Similar Pages" feature found on several of the search engines. Search engines often keep track of keywords that appear together on webpages. It is quite possible that other keywords exist that you may not have considered. Using this feature should turn up some other "hits" you may not have yet seen. You can use the same keywords you used earlier or modify that group of words now. Use the cut and paste method described earlier to insure that you are using an identical search string. July 2007 Update The availability and specific term used for this feature changes from time to time as the search engines tweak their sites. Google now calls this feature "Similar Pages". Google displays this feature on the results page right below the page description. Using slightly different approach, Ask displays a list of additional keywords and phrases on the side of the screen to Narrow or Expand Your Search. Google recently added a "Searches related to:" feature that currently appears at the bottom of the first page of results. WiseNut displays what it calls WiseGuide Categories at the top of the first page of results. Don't panic if this feature is not exactly as described in this introduction. Just look around the results page to see if you can find a similar feature. If all else fails, you can consult the search engine's help files. Add your observations on using this technique to your digital logbook and add bookmarks when you find appropriate resources. Search Engines continue

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Website maintained by Bob Jost \| bjost@josts.net \| last revised 7.9.07 Copyright © 1998-2002 by Bob Jost & Geoffrey Jost. All rights reserved. No part of this website may be transmitted, stored or recorded in any form without written permission from the authors.



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	Course Homepage Course Modules: Online Community Background Information Basic Web Searching Managing Resources Advanced Web Searching Comprehensive Web Search Strategies Course Projects Assessment	More like this... (Similar Pages, Related Pages) On the second pass through the search engines, you will be using the "Similar Pages" feature found on several of the search engines. Search engines often keep track of keywords that appear together on webpages. It is quite possible that other keywords exist that you may not have considered. Using this feature should turn up some other "hits" you may not have yet seen. You can use the same keywords you used earlier or modify that group of words now. Use the cut and paste method described earlier to insure that you are using an identical search string. July 2007 Update The availability and specific term used for this feature changes from time to time as the search engines tweak their sites. Google now calls this feature "Similar Pages". Google displays this feature on the results page right below the page description. Using slightly different approach, Ask displays a list of additional keywords and phrases on the side of the screen to Narrow or Expand Your Search. Google recently added a "Searches related to:" feature that currently appears at the bottom of the first page of results. WiseNut displays what it calls WiseGuide Categories at the top of the first page of results. Don't panic if this feature is not exactly as described in this introduction. Just look around the results page to see if you can find a similar feature. If all else fails, you can consult the search engine's help files. Add your observations on using this technique to your digital logbook and add bookmarks when you find appropriate resources. Search Engines continue

Fresno Pacific University \| Center for Professional Development

Website maintained by Bob Jost \| bjost@josts.net \| last revised 7.9.07 Copyright © 1998-2002 by Bob Jost & Geoffrey Jost. All rights reserved. No part of this website may be transmitted, stored or recorded in any form without written permission from the authors.