Thursday, May 1, 2008

week 5

Week 5

From the lecture slides today we were taught about different search engines. We were asked a few questions at the beginning about different search engines and other information about the Internet such as what is a Boolean search?

We were then told what a search engine is and what they are used for. “ A web based application that looks at all the sites on the web then puts them into lists/ categories based on textual information and key words.”

Different types of search engines
-Yahoo
-Google
-AltaVista

When using search engines you will more than likely get to many results than you need and have to spend a lot of time trying to figure out what you can really use.

Tips for using search engines
1-use a range of different tools
2-when writing in keywords use many different words so can make a more controlled search
3-use advanced search places to find more precise information

In today’s tutorial we had to look at finding good search strategies and complete a quiz by using a search engine to find the answers.

Search strategies
1-brake down your search into defined keywords
2-make sure you know how to use the search engine well
3-search around to make sure information is fact
my quiz results to finish this quiz I used the yahoo search engine to find all the results as I found it gave me the answers directly.

my quiz results to finish this quiz I used the yahoo search engine to find all the results as I found it gave me the answers directly.

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