Thursday, September 26, 2013

Getting better results from Google searches

Have you ever found an image from a Google search that ended up being too small for your presentation?  Or an article with too high a reading level?





Next time you do a search, try clicking on the gear icon to the upper right, then clicking Advanced Search.


You will get a host of choices that allow you to narrow by various criteria.  For web searches, you'll see this:


Note the ability to filter by reading level, for example.


For image searches, you'll see this:
In this case, the results will be limited to those whose author has allowed re-use.

More information on effective searching is available from our librarians or at the CVU library site.






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