Sunday, November 1, 2009

Web Search Strategies

http://www.learnwebskills.com/search/
www.monash.com/spidap1.html
www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/.../Strategies.html
Because the web has millions of websites, it could be virtually impossible to find the information you are looking for. To help with this process, there are services out there that search the web for you called search engines. These search engines scan each web page out there for your key words. Once they have compiled all the results that contain the key words you’re looking for, they display them in the order of the most popular. To narrow your search, you could add more key words. Examples of these search engines are Google.com, Bing.com, dogpile.com, webcrawler.com, and lycos.com. These search engines can be very useful when you are trying to find something on the web, but don’t know the exact web address. It can relieve a lot of frustration and stress and also save you tons of time. Teachers use web search engines extensively to find lesson plans on the internet. For example, if I was researching how to teach division, I could type in “division lessons” in the search engine.

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