Searching The Web Effectively
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The resulting list appears in your web browser as a list of hits
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Why don’t I get the same results from all search engines?
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help you search the web for digital images as well as audio
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In addition to being able to search for videos and images,
search engines allow you to restrict search results by time.
Google provides additional search functionality specific to
the type of search being conducted through the Search Tools
feature (Figure 3.14a). For example, when searching for
videos, you can continue to customize by Any time, Any
quality, or Any duration; if searching for images, Search
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such as Dogpile, search other search engines rather than
individual websites.
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Why isn’t Wikipedia a reliable source for research?
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The idea behind content that is managed and edited by many
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users, such as that found on Wikipedia and other large public
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