Internet

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Assignment

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/ Reading Guide / 50
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/ URL Truncating / 5
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/ Search Engine 1 (octopus) / 10
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/ Search Engines (octopus) / 10
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/ Searching the Web
(George Washington) / 10
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/ Boolean Search 1
(Carbon Monoxide) / 10
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/ Boolean Search 2
(Jazz & Basketball) / 10
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/ Boolean Search 3
(custom search) / 10
/ Total / 115


Reading Guide

DIRECTIONS: Open PowerPoint and retrieve the Internet 2-Surf and Search and complete this study guide while viewing the presentation-type your answers in the shaded boxes.

1.  Millions of people waste precious time and energy looking for information on the Internet without the proper searching tools to help be more

2.  List four tools for searching online .

3.  When you search for data on the internet, you are searching a of information-not the .

4.  Indexes are websites by categories.

5.  List two web index sites .

6.  A site is a search too that uses several search engines or databases and gives the results in a single list.

7.  List 3 metasearch sites .

8.  Link lists are of links organized by topics.

9.  No single indexes or organizes the entire Web.

10.  You will get different results from different Engines because they have different .

11.  List four commonly used search engines: .

12.  List five ways to refine a search using a search engine .

13.  People using search engines usually use searches.

14.  Key word searches return many results.

15.  Phrase searching refers to words together using marks.

16.  Search engine math uses the two math symbols and .

17.  The plus (+) symbol means the word should on the page.

18.  The minus (-) symbol means the word should appear on the page.

19.  is another way to search similar to search engine math.

20.  Boolean logic is based on a simple or ranking system.

21.  The Boolean operators are , and .

22.  The AND operator instructs the Search Engine to search for documents containing words you specify.

23.  Sometimes it’s easier to narrow a search by specifying what you are looking for.

24.  Using logic will return more results.

25.  The symbol or asterisk can be used as a wildcard character in a Web search.

26.  Use the * (wildcard) symbol for in words you are unsure of.

URL

Truncating-- The cool thing about a URL is that is can be truncated or traced backwards. Truncating is a great tool to use when validating a website. To truncate a web address, delete all the characters up to the previous slash. Each time you delete a slash you move up a level; eventually you will end up going to the domain name and generally to the home page of the website.

Visit the website for the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus (http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/). Now go to the website for the Bureau of Sasquatch Affairs (http://zapatopi.net/bsa/). Truncate both web addresses to see where they go.

What is the title on the home page?

Search Engines

Using at least 2 difference search engines conduct a search on an “Octopus”, on your assignment worksheet record the top five results of each page (make sure they are web results, not Ads).

Name of Search Engine #1
Name of Website result / Title of result
Example / Wikipedia.org / Octopus-Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Name of Search Engine #2
Name of Website / Title of result
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Searching the Web

Using Google search for George Washington without quotation marks, if you look near the top left side of the page it will give you the number of pages found or results. Make a note of how many results were found. Now conduct the same search, only this time put the name George Washington in quotation marks.

Topic / Number of Results
George Washington
“George Washington”

1.  Which returned fewer results check your answer?

☐Without Quotations / ☐With Quotations

Boolean Operator Search

Search #1 / You want to find out what the symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning. Fill in the table below with your search try different Boolean Operators and/or Quotes to shrink your results (you can use the same search engine).
Search Engine / Search For / Number of Results
1. / google.com / carbon monoxide poisoning / 2,260,000
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Search #2 / You want to find out what the Utah Jazz Basketball schedule for this season. Fill in the table below with your search. Use Boolean operators.
Search Engine / Search For / Number of Results
1. / google.com / Utah Jazz schedule / 9,650,000
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4.
Search #3 / Create your own search-Make sure to use Boolean operators and/or Quote marks to refine your search
Search Engine / Search For / Number of Results
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