[vip_students] Google tutorials reposted!
- From: "Paul Traynor" <paul.traynor@xxxxxxx>
- To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 15:52:25 -0000
Hi All,
I have finally pinned myself down to
write up some useful I hope instructions for performing various types of
searches within the Google search engine.
This email contains a series of google based tutorials for those who did not
get them before.
Most people will either use JAWS, Supernova or Hal and if your programs
which I have just mentioned are up n the years say acquired within the last
4 years or so then using Google will be no problem.
First of all lets look at how our screen readers/magnification software
interacts with the Google search engine and indeed you can apply what I am
going to say here to many or all web pages which contain forms.
When you first load up Google it will contain advertisements, various other
options and preferences for you to use or take a look at but mainly you find
that Google is a text based search engine which is fine for us.
What we are going to look at in this lesson is the fact that Google has "one
edit field" for us to place those important search words into and hope that
it comes back with loads of useful results. Google will do this provided you
take a little time to gain a little knowledge about how it works and how
best to use it.
(Using JAWS and Supernova within Google) When we enter Google basically the
first thing we need to look for is the search box in Google where we type in
our search words. With jaws you can first go to the top of the Google
webpage using keys: "control plus home" on your keyboard then arrow down the
page till you come to the search edit box which jaws will announce and you
then press the "enter key" which activates the jaws forms mode, a great
feature in the jaws program itself.
Note: Many people find that when they first attempt to use the internet and
have to fill in an edit box with something such as a search word etc they
cannot. This is because the jaws virtual cursor is blocking their attempts
so Freedm Scientific have created "forms mode" and other manufacturers of
accessibility software have done similar things. Forms mode can be activated
by first highlighting the edit box and pressing the enter key on it. Now
youc an type in your search words.
There is a dedicated set of keystrokes for jumping directly into a Google
form field such as the search box and this again applies to all form fields
on any webpage. The keystrokes for this are: jaws5 and versions of jaws 4
"control, shift and tab key". If its jaws6 or later versions use key
"letter E" and
it will place you in the search field ready for you to activate forms mode
with the enter key.
You can use the above mentioned technique on any webpage which has form
fields. Note: if there are more than one edit box on a webpage you only need
to press and activate the jaws forms mode on the first edit or list box and
any more edit or list boxes, checkboxes etc that come after on that page you
can simply tab key to them and use them. Once you go to the next or continue
button on a webpage and move off the current webpage to a new page will jaws
forms mode turn off and you would have to activate it again if you need to
on the next page if there are forms to be filled in.
I have talked so far about jaws on the pages with forms and I will say here
that supernova acts much the same as jaws in this regard jaws calls this
function "forms mode" while supernova calls it "interactive mode". If any of
the I.T Trainers on the list can post a more detailed account of how
supernova works on a webpage with forms then please do.
(Supernova on the web)
Here I am going to switche over to Supernova for a moment and talk about it
and how it works on the web.
Yes, there are a lot of differences between using the jaws keyboard strokes
and the supernova ones. Please follow the list of keystrokes I have sent to
the list which are for supernova exclusively.
Take your time reading them and get a good understanding of them.
That?s all I am going to say about how the afore mentioned screen readers
behave on a page. Please ask questions if you need further information and
help.
(Google Web Search Basics)
Whenever you search for more than one keyword at a time, a search engine has
a default strategy for handling and combining those keywords. Can those
words appear individually anywhere in a page, or do they have to be right
next to each other? Will the engine search for both keywords or for either
keyword?
Google defaults to searching for occurrences of your specified keywords
anywhere in the page, whether side-by-side or scattered throughout. To
return results of pages containing specifically ordered words, enclose them
in quotes, turning your keyword search into a phrase search , to use
Google's terminology.
Now let me give you an idea of a search. This is called a phrase search and
if you study it carefully you will see why.
[Begin Sample]
to be or not to be
Above I have typed in some words, the phrase: to be or not to be.
Google sees all those words as just being separate words and will return
results where any or all of these words are scattered all over the place.
Now that?s fine if that is what you want but remember this is a phrase
search and I am studying for say an important English exam
In order for those words to appear together as a combined phrase enclose
them within quotation marks using keys "shift plus number 2"
See the following sample of what I mean. So we are in the Google search box
and here is what you should have inserted:
"To be or not to be"
(Below are the list of results I got from Google following the above
technique)
Book results for "To be or not to be"
To Be or Not to Be -
by William V. Rauscher - 142 pages
Shakespeare - To be, or not to be: that is the question William Shakespeare
- To be, or not to be (from Hamlet 3/1). To be, or not to
be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The
slings ...
www.artofeurope.com/shakespeare/sha8.htm - 4k - 13 Aug 2005 - Cached -
Similar pages To BE or Not to BE, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and
Love ...
All you ever wanted to know about barium enemas but were afraid to ask from
the webisite for adults, married adults that is.
marriedadults.com/bariumenema.php - 12k - 13 Aug 2005 - Cached - Similar
pages To Be or Not to Be (1942) To Be or Not to Be - Cast, Crew, Reviews,
Plot Summary, Comments, Discussion, Taglines, Trailers, Posters, Photos,
Showtimes, Link to Official Site, ...
www.imdb.com/title/tt0035446/ - 51k - 13 Aug 2005 - Cached - Similar pages
Block quote start
www.imdb.com/Title?0035446
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Block quote end
To Be or not to Be: An Investigation of Artists and Suicide To Be or Not to
Be is no doubt the most famous line William Shakespeare ever wrote.
It's the first line of Hamlet's Act III, Scene 1 soliloquy in which he ...
www.rnw.nl/culture/suicide/ - 11k -
Cached -
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FunBrain.com - 2Bee or Nottoobee
2Bee and Queen Nottoobee need flowers to make honey. Help them find flowers
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available.
www.funbrain.com/verb/ - 5k -
Cached -
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Amazon.com: To Be or Not to Be (1942) : Video To Be or Not to Be, Ernst
Lubitsch, Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack, Felix Bressart, Lionel
Atwill, Stanley Ridges, Sig Ruman, Tom Dugan, ...
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ tg/detail/-/630170648X?v=glance - 61k - Cached -
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Amazon.com: To Be or Not to Be (1983) : Video To Be or Not to Be, Alan
Johnson, Mel Brooks, Anne Bancroft, Tim Matheson, Charles Durning,
Christopher Lloyd, José Ferrer, Ronny Graham, Estelle Reiner, ...
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ tg/detail/-/6301798643?v=glance - 58k - Cached -
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To Be Or Not To Be
Scene-indexed HTML of the plays. Options for viewing via wireless devices.
www.tobeornottobe.com/ - 2k -
Cached -
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Poetry - William Shakespeare - To be or not to be - that is the ...
Poetry - William Shakespeare - To be or not to be - that is the question.
www.davidpbrown.co.uk/poetry/william-shakespeare-3.html - 5k - 13 Aug 2005 -
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(End of first page of results)
[End of sample]
Google will return matches only where those words appear together.
Therefore I am more likely in my list of results to get exactly what I want
from the search and therefore I will spend less time and frustration trying
to find what I want.
Now try the above sample or else find a line of text yourself and see how it
works for you. Remember to use quotation marks each side of the search.
I will end for now on this subject so any questions relating to this topic
or anything else please write in to the list.
Regards,
Paul.
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Tutorial 2
Hi All,
We are going to talk about boolean searching in this lesson.
Whether an engine searches for all keywords or any of them depends on what
is called its Boolean default .
Search engines can default to Boolean using the word, "AND" (which will
search for all keywords) or Boolean using the word, "OR" (searching for
any keywords).
Note:Read the above paragraph well and understand it so you will know what
it means exactly.
Google's Boolean default is the word, "AND" , which means that, if you
enter query words without modifiers, Google will search for all of your
query words. For example, if you search for:
snowblower Honda "Green Bay"
Google will search for all the words.
If you prefer you can add in boolean words: the word, "or" for example to
tell google that you want any or all of the words such as the following
example.
snowblower OR snowmobile OR "Green Bay"
Note:Read through the words above carefully and notice where I have placed
the word, "OR". This tells google I would like any of the words in my
selection or indeed all of the words.
Note: Make sure you capitalize the OR ; a lowercase or won't work
correctly.
Now I would like any of you to try practicing the above using perhaps words
of your own choosing and read over the above carefully as it might not make
much sense at first but it will come to you as you go along. As always, just
write into the list asking any further questions you have relation to this
topic of "basic Boolean searching".
Paul.
Paul Traynor,
Technical Support Staff,
NCBI,
45 Whitworth Road,
Dromcondra,
Dublin 9.
Tel: 1850 923 060
EM: paul.traynor@xxxxxxx
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Tutorial 3
Hi All,
We are going to talk about boolean searching in this lesson.
Whether an engine searches for all keywords or any of them depends on what
is called its Boolean default .
Search engines can default to Boolean using the word, "AND" (which will
search for all keywords) or Boolean using the word, "OR" (searching for
any keywords).
Note:Read the above paragraph well and understand it so you will know what
it means exactly.
Google's Boolean default is the word, "AND" , which means that, if you
enter query words without modifiers, Google will search for all of your
query words. For example, if you search for:
snowblower Honda "Green Bay"
Google will search for all the words.
If you prefer you can add in boolean words: the word, "or" for example to
tell google that you want any or all of the words such as the following
example.
snowblower OR snowmobile OR "Green Bay"
Note:Read through the words above carefully and notice where I have placed
the word, "OR". This tells google I would like any of the words in my
selection or indeed all of the words.
Note: Make sure you capitalize the OR ; a lowercase or won't work
correctly.
Now I would like any of you to try practicing the above using perhaps words
of your own choosing and read over the above carefully as it might not make
much sense at first but it will come to you as you go along. As always, just
write into the list asking any further questions you have relation to this
topic of "basic Boolean searching".
Paul.
Paul Traynor,
Technical Support Staff,
NCBI,
45 Whitworth Road,
Dromcondra,
Dublin 9.
Tel: 1850 923 060
EM: paul.traynor@xxxxxxx
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Tutorial 4
Hi All,
We are going to talk about boolean searching in this lesson.
Whether an engine searches for all keywords or any of them depends on what
is called its Boolean default .
Search engines can default to Boolean using the word, "AND" (which will
search for all keywords) or Boolean using the word, "OR" (searching for
any keywords).
Note:Read the above paragraph well and understand it so you will know what
it means exactly.
Google's Boolean default is the word, "AND" , which means that, if you
enter query words without modifiers, Google will search for all of your
query words. For example, if you search for:
snowblower Honda "Green Bay"
Google will search for all the words.
If you prefer you can add in boolean words: the word, "or" for example to
tell google that you want any or all of the words such as the following
example.
snowblower OR snowmobile OR "Green Bay"
Note:Read through the words above carefully and notice where I have placed
the word, "OR". This tells google I would like any of the words in my
selection or indeed all of the words.
Note: Make sure you capitalize the OR ; a lowercase or won't work
correctly.
Now I would like any of you to try practicing the above using perhaps words
of your own choosing and read over the above carefully as it might not make
much sense at first but it will come to you as you go along. As always, just
write into the list asking any further questions you have relation to this
topic of "basic Boolean searching".
Paul.
Paul Traynor,
Technical Support Staff,
NCBI,
45 Whitworth Road,
Dromcondra,
Dublin 9.
Tel: 1850 923 060
EM: paul.traynor@xxxxxxx
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Tutorial 5
Tutorial 6
Hi All,
We are going to talk about boolean searching in this lesson.
Whether an engine searches for all keywords or any of them depends on what
is called its Boolean default .
Search engines can default to Boolean using the word, "AND" (which will
search for all keywords) or Boolean using the word, "OR" (searching for
any keywords).
Note:Read the above paragraph well and understand it so you will know what
it means exactly.
Google's Boolean default is the word, "AND" , which means that, if you
enter query words without modifiers, Google will search for all of your
query words. For example, if you search for:
snowblower Honda "Green Bay"
Google will search for all the words.
If you prefer you can add in boolean words: the word, "or" for example to
tell google that you want any or all of the words such as the following
example.
snowblower OR snowmobile OR "Green Bay"
Note:Read through the words above carefully and notice where I have placed
the word, "OR". This tells google I would like any of the words in my
selection or indeed all of the words.
Note: Make sure you capitalize the OR ; a lowercase or won't work
correctly.
Now I would like any of you to try practicing the above using perhaps words
of your own choosing and read over carefully as it might not make much sense
at first but it will come to you as you go along.
Bye for now,
Paul.
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