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| Database | Description |
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| ACM Digital Library | Full-text of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) publications (doesn't include books). View Full Description |
| IEEE Xplore Digital Library | Electrical and computer engineering journals, conference proceedings and standards from IEEE/IET. View Full Description |
- Citeseer: Scientific Literature Digital Library
- Provides access to a broad range of research papers and articles primarily from the field of computing science.
- CNET: The Computer Network
- is a leading edge media company which integrates TV programming with a network of sites on the World Wide Web. Their site draws heavily on computer product reviews and news of the ongoing developments within computing and the Internet.
- Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (FOLDOC)
- is a searchable dictionary containing over 11,000 definitions. The site includes links to companies, institutions, products, projects, history and almost everything related to computing.
- IEEE Computer Society Style Guide
- The IEEE Computer Society Style Guide Committee’s mission is to clarify the editorial styles and standards that the Society’s publications use. We maintain and periodically update a style guide to clarify those usages not adequately defined in accepted external sources. Our purpose is to promote coherence, consistency, and identity of style, making it easier for CS editors and our authors to produce quality submissions and publications that communicate clearly to all our readers.
- Scirus: For Scientific Information Only
- Scirus is a science-specific search engine which examines over 167 million science related Web pages.
- Webopedia
- Serves as a dictionary and a search engine for computer and Internet technology.
- WWW Virtual Library: Computing
- This is a vast list of links to a wide variety of topics relating to the field of computers.
Searching Google
Default Search Settings or How Google Interprets your Query:
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Implicit AND |
Google returns pages that match all your search terms with the term Search terms are automatically combined using AND | |
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Exact Matching |
Google returns pages that match your search terms exactly | |
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Word Variations |
Google returns pages that match variants of your search terms. This means that it will automatically look for correct spelling of misspelled words | |
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Common-Word Exclusion |
Google ignores some common words called “stop words,” | the, on, where, how |
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32-Word Limit |
Search queries limited to 32 words | |
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Not case sensitive |
Capital letters of search terms are ignored | |
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Search |
Searches documents by keyword | |
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Word order |
Google gives more priority to pages that have search terms in the same order as the query | |
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Ignoring Punctuation |
Google ignores most punctuation and special characters including | . ; ? [ ] ( ) @ / * < > |
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Truncation |
Automatic – no additional symbols required to search for alternative word endings | |
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Search results |
Displays by relevance attributed to Google’s algorithm | |
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Compound words |
Searches both the compound word and the with a space between the words | airline air line |
Options to Refine your Search; Crafting Queries with Special Characters, Operators and Symbols:
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“phrase searching” |
Use quotations marks around phrases | “birds eye” |
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OR and | |
Interchangeable use of OR or |. Results include either search term. OR must be capital letters | tourism OR travel |
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- |
Exclude use –immediately before a search term you want to exclude | wine -barrel |
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.. |
Specify the results contain numbers in a range | 1800..2000 |
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* |
Use *, an asterisk character, known as a wildcard, to match one or more words in a phrase (enclosed in quotes) | “Google * my life” |
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synonyms |
Use ~(the tilde symbol) immediately before a search term to include synonyms | ~tourism |
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intitle: |
Finds results with your search term in the document title | intitle:tourism |
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allintitle: |
Finds results with your search terms in the document title | allintitle:confidential |
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inurl: |
Finds results with your search term in the URL | inurl:healthy |
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allinurl: |
Finds results with your search terms in the URL | allinurl:google.faq |
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Info: |
Finds results about the web page | Info:library.wlu.ca |
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related: |
Finds results with content related to a specific website |
related: http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ |
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filetype: |
Limits your search results to a specific file type. Examples of file types include; doc xls ppt mp4 | filetype:pdf |
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site: |
Limits your search to searching within a specific site | site:www.library.wlu.ca |
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link: |
Use to see what sites link to a specific website | link:www.library.wlu.ca |
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define: |
Find definitions sourced from a range of online resources | define:tourist |
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cache: |
See what a cached version of the site looked like. The last time that Google crawled the site |
Cache: http://lwlu.ca |
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AROUND(n) |
Proximity search based on the number n. AROUND has to be capitalized | CBC AROUND(20) Harper |
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$ |
Find prices | Nexus $ |
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# |
Find popular hashtags for trending topics | #leftoverturkey |
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_ |
Connect two works. Your search results will find this pair of works linked together or connected with underscore | dog_house |
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Movie: |
Include movie: to find movie-related information | Movie:blade runner |
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Phonebook: |
Reverse lookup using Google | Phonebook:555-555-1212 |