WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:11.550 --> 00:00:15.440 We're going to talk about how to do an effective search online. 00:00:15.440 --> 00:00:19.350 If your browser has a built-in search bar (or supports searching in the address bar), 00:00:19.350 --> 00:00:21.470 you can use that for convenience. 00:00:21.470 --> 00:00:24.010 Or you can go straight to the search engine you want. 00:00:24.010 --> 00:00:27.960 I'm going to use Google. 00:00:27.960 --> 00:00:31.300 The truth is, Google is a very good search engine. 00:00:31.300 --> 00:00:34.350 Most of the time, it can find what you're looking for, even if you don't know what you're 00:00:34.350 --> 00:00:35.350 doing. 00:00:35.350 --> 00:00:37.930 But it can't hurt to learn a few strategies. 00:00:37.930 --> 00:00:42.250 Say we're looking for recipes online, but we're not sure what we want to make. 00:00:42.250 --> 00:00:46.070 We'll keep it simple and just start typing the word "recipes." 00:00:46.070 --> 00:00:49.809 This prompts the search box to give us a list of suggestions. 00:00:49.809 --> 00:00:53.440 Suggestions are great because they can give you an idea for a search that you might not 00:00:53.440 --> 00:00:54.620 have thought of. 00:00:54.620 --> 00:00:58.399 You can click one of the suggestions, or just keep typing. 00:00:58.399 --> 00:01:02.390 As you can see, you don't need to worry about case, punctuation, or even using complete 00:01:02.390 --> 00:01:03.440 sentences. 00:01:03.440 --> 00:01:07.500 Hopefully we'll find some good cookie recipes. 00:01:07.500 --> 00:01:09.240 These are our search results. 00:01:09.240 --> 00:01:13.710 There are also some ads at the top, and sometimes you'll find them to the right too. 00:01:13.710 --> 00:01:16.760 If you see what you're looking for, you can click the link to go to the webpage. 00:01:16.760 --> 00:01:20.620 If not, you may want to reconsider your search terms; for example, you could make them more 00:01:20.620 --> 00:01:26.290 specific, or search for different words all together. 00:01:26.290 --> 00:01:29.080 Suppose we don't want cookies with chocolate in them. 00:01:29.080 --> 00:01:34.190 We can tell the search engine to exclude those results by typing a hyphen (or a minus sign)… 00:01:34.190 --> 00:01:37.370 followed by the word we want to exclude. 00:01:37.370 --> 00:01:40.220 Notice that there is no space after the hyphen. 00:01:40.220 --> 00:01:45.350 So it's "recipes cookies -chocolate." 00:01:45.350 --> 00:01:48.530 This should have gotten rid of all of the chocolate chip cookie recipes. 00:01:48.530 --> 00:01:51.270 There's still a pretty good variety to choose from. 00:01:51.270 --> 00:01:55.690 But I see that there's sort of a sugar cookie recipe here, and that sounds really good… 00:01:55.690 --> 00:02:01.700 so I'm going to try searching for that to get as many recipes as I can. 00:02:01.700 --> 00:02:06.520 We want to put "sugar cookies" in quotes so Google searches for that specific phrase. 00:02:06.520 --> 00:02:10.160 Otherwise, we might get results for other types of cookies that just happen to have 00:02:10.160 --> 00:02:13.860 sugar in the ingredients. 00:02:13.860 --> 00:02:17.280 These results look good because we have a lot of recipes to choose from, and they're 00:02:17.280 --> 00:02:19.160 all pretty much what we're looking for. 00:02:19.160 --> 00:02:24.170 However, we could refine them even more using the options below the search box. 00:02:24.170 --> 00:02:30.220 Here, we have different types of content to choose from, like images, maps, and shopping. 00:02:30.220 --> 00:02:34.800 To view even more options, open the menu that says More. 00:02:34.800 --> 00:02:40.120 This is also where you can access special search tools that'll let you filter your results. 00:02:40.120 --> 00:02:44.430 These options will change depending on what you're looking for, giving you even more control 00:02:44.430 --> 00:02:48.440 over the pages, resources, and other things that you find. 00:02:48.440 --> 00:02:54.940 For now, why don't we do a visual search for cookie recipes by switching over to Images? 00:02:54.940 --> 00:03:00.930 Now we can just browse through pictures to see if there's anything we like. 00:03:00.930 --> 00:03:02.480 These look really good… 00:03:02.480 --> 00:03:07.060 But wouldn't it be great if we could just watch a video to learn how to make cookies? 00:03:07.060 --> 00:03:10.170 We can do that. 00:03:10.170 --> 00:03:16.700 All we have to do is switch over to Videos—again, using the options near the top of the page. 00:03:16.700 --> 00:03:20.950 This will give us a lot of how-to videos, which should really come in handy. 00:03:20.950 --> 00:03:23.500 Now you can experiment with your own search terms. 00:03:23.500 --> 00:03:28.090 And just remember that most of the time, more specific search terms yield better results.