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Welcome! Today we will explore Digital literacy & research to help you find precise information online quickly.
Digital literacy & research starts with choosing strong keywords. Instead of typing full questions, pick the most important words for your topic.
You can use Boolean operators like AND, OR, and NOT to control your results. AND narrows your search, OR broadens it, and NOT removes unwanted topics.
Search limiters refine your results even further. Adding filters like site:.gov or filetype:pdf ensures you get trustworthy and specific files.
✏️ Worked example
Build an advanced search query to find free Python coding guides on educational websites, excluding videos.
- Identify the main topic keywords: Python and guide.
- Use the AND operator to combine the main keywords: Python AND guide.
- Use the NOT operator to remove unwanted video results: NOT video.
- Add a site limiter to focus only on education domains: site:.edu.
- Combine everything into one search query: Python AND guide NOT video site:.edu.
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