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Good Searching Tips

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Good Searching Tips

Follow these steps to help you use search engines to find what you're looking for:

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What are you searching for?

  • Are you searching for an image, a video, some news or a piece of text?
    • Use the correct tab to display what you're looking for.
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Choice of words

  • Only use keywords for your search.
  • Choose your keywords carefully.
  • Be careful to spell your keywords correctly.
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Exact match

  • Use quotation marks to find an exact phrase.
    • E.g. “Double, double. Toil and trouble” would show you results that matched that exact text.
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Fact check

  • See if the ‘facts’ are the same on different sites.
  • Think about the quality of the site when you decide whether to trust the information.

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