And Chapter #5.....

Search Engines.....VROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooommmm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• There are search engines and metasearch engines. Meta, as in it collects stuff from all over, not just within a small picky little area.
• Subject trees are cool. You start with a general search term, and then as you get into more detail, the branch gets smaller until you find what you were looking for....that tasty green leaf.
• It takes a lot of research and changing of your search terms to find what you're looking for. If in one search engine, you can't find what you're looking for in the first 20 or 30 hits, give up and try elsewhere.
• To narrow stuff down, use Boolean queries like AND, OR, NOT or even - or +. See? Those conjunctions we learned on Schoolhouse Rock really came in handy! Plus it gave us some great annoying ammo for long car trips. "Conjunction Junction, what's yo' function?"

Fun stuff. On to Chapter #6.

~Vanessa ;) <><