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__**Using Synonyms in Research**__ When there is a no answer to the question one researched for, one can try researching using synonyms of the keywords. Although the words may mean the same thing, the results could be different in some of search engines.

the synonyms of "causes" and "world war one" were taken to find out how the search engines give different results.





In EBSCO, the synonym search works. Different results are retrieved according to the way of spelling Word War 1 and using the word "causes" and "reasons". More relevant results came out with "WWI" than "WW1".

The synonym search does not work well in Google; Google looks for similar words to the query as well.

When the query “causes of world war one” is submitted in World Book Advanced, there are342 results retrieved, and the first 3 results were all relevant to the topic. However, “causes of WW1” does not show nay results. "World War One reasons" gives only one to two relevant information.

Synonym search is effective in United Streaming as well. Different way of saying World War One as well as uses of synonyms for "cause" gave different results. When researching, several researches must be done using different synonyms so enough and various information is collected. Synonyms of a keyword can be found using thesaurus or [|Google Synonym Search Tool.]

O'Connor, Dennis. "What are Synonyms?" __21st Century Information Fluency__. 23 Sept. 2010 .
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