Query Types | Examples | What to use |
- Your topic is general
- You want to view a collection of sites recommended by experts
- You want to browse the possibilities
- You want a limited number of high-quality results
| - I'm doing research on drug abuse
| - Subject Directories, especially academic and professional
- Some general queries might be helped by the next group of options below
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- You want results organized into concept clusters rather than one long list of results
- You are doing in-depth research that includes an exploration of several subtopics
- You want a better understanding of the scope of your topic
- You are unfamiliar with your topic
| - I'm doing research on discrimination
| - Search engines that offer searches on similar documents in the results list, or provide a hyperlinked list of alternative topics for retrieving related results: AltaVista,, Ask.com, Google, Ixquick
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- Your topic is narrow and limited in scope
- You are looking for specific site/fact/individual/event, etc.
- Your topic consists of more than one concept
- Your topic is obscure
- You are looking for a specific domain, file type, geographic location, etc.
| - I'm doing research on age discrimination
- I'm researching civil rights in Turkey
- I'm looking for the site of the Society of American Registered Architects
- I'm looking for information about Nelson Mandela from South Africa
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- You are looking for the appropriate search terms
- Your search terms are ambiguous
| - What search terms should I use to investigate my topic?
- How can I learn about bridge?
| - Thesaurus-creating search engine: SurfWax
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- You are looking for dynamically-changing information
- You are looking for very recent information
- You are looking for non-textual files such as software, graphics, multimedia, documents in PDF format,etc
- You are looking for information usually stored in a database such as a directory, phone book, etc.
| - I need today's stock price for Microsoft
- I want to search news stories from yesterday
- I want to see a photo of the World Trade Center
- I need a list of lawyers in Albany, N.Y.
- I want to research the laws of California on computer crime
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