To use the same key words of my last search in Searching the Web, I used Academy Awards History to search and perform the following Boolean searching on the Internet task:
1. The biggest number of hits relating to these key words
To search: Academy OR Awards OR History
In this search the addition of OR between Academy, Awards and History is using the full Boolean search option and enables more records to be able to be searched as there is a combination of words in the search. The results however may not provide the exact information being search due to the combination of words.
2. Information most relevant to what you ACTUALLY wanted to look for!
To search: Academy AND Awards AND History NOT Oscars NOT 2009
In this search the reference to Oscars and to the current year are not what is being searched and therefore should be excluded from the results. Using the word AND should provide results specific to the search whilst the NOT should eliminate reference to Oscars and 2009 from the results.
3. Information coming only from university sources
To search: +Academy+Awards+History+edu
When searching the above words, 186,000,000 websites were provided in 0.26 seconds. The first website did provide a “full and complete history and commentary on the Academy Awards from its early beginnings to the present…by decade and by individual year” www.filmsite.org/oscars.html.
A search on Google Scholar through a university site provided results in 0.12 seconds of which there were 87,000 websites. Certainly a search through a university source narrowed the number of results to be found. In the search through the university, the domain ‘edu’ was not used.
Overall, the more specific the request for the search, the greater the chance of receiving results which are tailored to the request.
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