This pathfinder is designed to help you find background information on the country you will represent and information on contemporary international issues.
General Advice for Researchers:
Metasearchers can help us locate major resources on a topic, and also suggest further aspects of a topic that we may not have considered before. Meta-search engines run a query against several search engines at the same time.
Now think about your topic.
What words would the author have used? What level of the topic are you looking for? What is the context? Write down at least one word for each part.
Topic: [your country]
Level of topic: statistics, political parties…
Context: background
Are there any synonyms?
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1. Pick out key concepts: Mark them with quotation marks. |
You use " " to mark words together. |
2. Enter Armenia "country background" |
Default view is for Best of All Search Engines. Click on the names of the individual search engines to compare one engine against another. NOTE: sponsored results are shown as Ads from. |
3. Enter Armenia |
Dogpile offers alternative suggestions on the right panel—-allowing you to refine and narrow your topic! |
Ixquick.com - Scores results |
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1. Ixquick.com - pick your language. French and Italian are here. |
Ixquick is probably the most international of the metasearch engines. |
2. Search the Web for armenia "united nations" "foreign policy" |
Note the stars - there is one star "for every search engine that chooses it as one of the ten best results for your search". |
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Use the check mark to see more results like this, and the X to exclude. |
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| EZ2Find - Many Search Engines | |
1. Go to www.ez2find.com |
It supports parallel searching of over 1,000 search engines comprised mainly of specialty databases. |
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For Web Search, it says it includes several of the major search engines - Google, MSN, Teoma, Wisenut and Yahoo and it uses the Open Directory. |
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2. Search the WEB for Armenia "international relations" |
Note the clustered results.Pages can be previewed. |
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Note the summary at the bottom of the page. It's likely there were 0 results from Google and Gigablast. |
3. Click on Specialized Meta Search. Click on Government and then select Work |
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--Search Armenia |
EZ2Find has found a statistics site. |
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Jux2 - |
Shows Overlap |
Select favourite engine. |
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Jux2 helps to show the unique hits at these three engines. |
1.Enter Armenian newspapers |
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Jux2.com puts the results that overlap across all engines at the top of Best Results.You may also view |
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- what the engine you picked is missing. |
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- What only your engine found |
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- results from your engine |
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iBoogie - Clusters Results |
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1. Go to www.iboogie.com |
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2. Type in: armenia allies |
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iBoogie clusters pages into topics using the clusterizer technology. |
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The clusters on the side give us a lot of detail |
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