Search Tool Organizer

Use this chart to help you record the features you'll be demonstrating in your advertisement.

Search Tool ________________________
Notes
Search Strategies:

Which Boolean operators can you use? AND, NOT, OR, NEAR, +, —?

Is an AND assumed?

Wildcards?

 

 
Other search strategies:

Is phrase searching allowed? How?

Are there special strategies for name searching?

Is the search tool case sensitive?

Can you search by field? (URL, title, graphics, etc.)

 
Specialized searches:

Can you search for: images, audio, video, etc.?

 

 
Special Features / Advanced Search:

What unique tricks does this search tool do?

 

 
Results:

How are they arranged? 

Are there summaries/annotations? Who wrote them?

 

Subject searching? Is there a subject tree?

 

 

 
Small print:

What's missing here? Are there negative features?

 

 

What are the five major selling points for this search tool?

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