I am still amazed at how people try to search for things on the internet. A recent blog on Edudemic talks about basic strategies on how to generate better search results when using internet search engines. Simple things like adding quotations around a topic will search only for that exact phrase. When searching for cannibals in North America, putting quotes around the phrase will help filter out websites that have information on cannibalism in other continents. Other simple tools are using a plus (+) or minus (-) symbols before specific words if the website must contain the word (plus) or if you want only website without a specific word (minus).
This is stuff I knew when people still used altavista.com and yahoo search. Hopefully people learn this basic stuff before the internet itself is outdated...
http://www.edudemic.com/student-search-skills/
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