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Phinlab WS1 Report
Phinlab WS1 Report
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SEARCH ENGINE AND
DATABASES
INTERNET
1 GROWN TO BE A CRUCIAL
PART OF OUR LIFE
2 QUICK ACCESS
Web Browsers use search engines to retrieve and display information from web
pages hosted on web servers.
PHARMACOINFORMATICS
Google
Yahoo
Bing
AOL
FIRST 5 RESULTS ARE CHARACTERIZED AS:
GENERAL SPECIFIC
General information about the topic Specific, but covering more than one
aspect of the topic
DISTINCT PUZZLING
Specific to one aspect of the topic The result appears at first glance to have
little or nothing to do with the topic
RESULTS
BOOLEAN
OPERATORS
simple words used as conjunctions to combine or exclude keywords in a
search, resulting in more focused and productive results
Examples:
• AND
• OR
• NOT
EXAMPLES OF BOOLEAN OPERATORS
AND OR NOT
narrows down the results can broaden the results filters out words from
since it joins two or more your search and narrows
related concepts the result
RESULTS