HOW TO SEARCH FOR WEBSITES EFFICIENTLY
You need to know how to do this for university or TaFE
1. Boolean searching
and (don’t have to use it with Google anymore) |
drinking and statistics |
or |
(statistic or data or graph or chart) |
( ) |
(statistic or data or graph or chart) |
“ ” |
“drink driving” “road toll” |
* |
201* |
2. Domain searching
site:.au |
This will limit your results to the Australian domain of web addresses |
site:.gov |
This will limit your results to the Australian government domain of web addresses |
site.nsw |
This will limit your results to the New South Wales government domain of web addresses |
3. Put Boolean and domain searching together to search for statistics:
Here's a template for a search string:
health topic |
(youth or teenager or adolescent) |
(statistic or data or graph or chart) |
201* |
site:.au |
Example 1:
anxiety (youth or teenager or adolescent) (statistic or data or graph or chart) 201* site:.au |
Example 2:
(drinking or alcohol) (female or girl or wom*n) (statistic or data or graph or chart) 201* site:.au |
Example 3
speeding (youth or teenager or adolescent) (statistic or data or graph or chart) 201* site:.gov |
HOW TO SEARCH FOR NEWS ARTICLES EFFICIENTLY
You need to know how to do this for university or TaFE