2c. Help with Doing Online Searches
Search Engines
See below for help with doing searches using Google
• Carrot 2
Finds topics related to your search term. After entering your search term and clicking on 'search', you can choose to see the results as a list, tree map or pie chart.
• Yippy
Gives you lists of related topics on the left. (E.g. search for 'poverty' and Yippy also finds information on poverty + children, poverty + hunger, poverty law, extreme poverty, etc)
Help with Searching for Information (with Google)
I. Using Search Operators
Child Labour AND Poverty / Child Labour+Poverty
Child Labour AND Poverty AND Vietnam / Child Labour+Poverty+Vietnam
Child Labour AND Poverty AND Vietnam AND Girls / Child Labour+Poverty+Vietnam+Girls
- (NOT) > searches for sites that have the first term but not the second
Nuclear Weapons -Wikipedia
Syrian Refugees -Germany
*Make sure to leave a space after the first term but no space between the -and the second term.
OR > searches for sites that have either the first term or the second term or both
Asylum Seekers OR Refugees
Asylum Seekers OR Refugees AND Japan
II. Searching for Different Kinds of Organisations
Child marriage.gov > government websites with info on child marriage
Child marriage.org > international/national organizations (NGOs, etc) with info on child marriage
Water Pollution AND company
Water Pollution AND NGO AND Cambodia
III. Searching for Different Kinds of Information
Syrian Refugees AND News
Syrian Refugees AND Explainer
Syrian Refugees AND Background
Syrian Refugees AND Report
Help with Searching for Visuals (with Google)
Child Labour India Girls (and click on images)
Child Labour India Charts
Syrian Refugees Maps
Syrian Refugees Maps 2018
Europe Refugees Cartoons
Gender Pay Japan Graphs
Fair Trade Diagram
Poverty Asia Infographic
Global Warming (and click on Videos)