copyright © 2008 roger webster, ph.d. edw647 internet for educators search engines and bookmarks or...

Copyright © 2008 Roger Webster, Ph.D.

EDW647 Internet For EducatorsSearch Engines

and Bookmarks or FavoritesRoger W. Webster, Ph.D.

Department of Computer Science

Millersville University

(717) 872-3539 office

Email: [email protected]

Home Page: http://cs.millersville.edu/~webster/

EDW647 Info: http://cs.millersville.edu/~webster/edw647/


EDW647 Internet For Educators

Search Engines

•What is a Search Engine? •How do Search Engines work? •Guidelines for using Search Engines •Sample Search Engines:

www.google.com, www.yahoo.com, www.ask.com, •Internet Scavenger Hunt



Search Engines

•What is a Search Engine?

A search engine is a repository for indexed information gathered by webbots or infobots.

•How do Search Engines work?

Infobots are software programs that scan www web pages and seek out information and assign key terms to the web page and report this to the main data base at the search engine site, for ex. www.google.com or www.yahoo.com. When you ask the search engine for something it reports only what its infobots have seen out on the web. That is why you get broken links (outdated web pages that the infobot scanned last year).


EDW647 Internet For EducatorsSearch Engines

•Sample Search Engines: www.yahoo.com, www.google.com, www.ask.com , www.ajkids.com



Search Engines

Each Search Engine has its own style and quirks.

•Is Search Engine an ‘OR’ or an ‘AND’ search engine•Use “tuna fishing” quotes for exact phrase matches•Can I use + and – to filter out words/phrases•What other connectives can fine tune my search:

NOT, AND, Please refer to each search engine’s help facility for details.



Search Engines

•Meta Search Engines like: www.dogpile.com

Use other search engines to accumulate info from all the search engines. Be careful about information overload. Fine tune your searches with quotes or key commands..


EDW647 Internet For EducatorsInternet Scavenger Hunt

•Find the following on the World Wide Web and bookmark the URLs

•Current exchange rate for US dollars to Euro dollars. •The words to Shakespeare's entire play "Hamlet" •What movies are playing at what times at the Manor Cinema in Millersville/Lancaster (Regal Cinema)?• A City-Zip code lookup system - (lookup Swampscott, Mass.) •Find where seat 6B is on a Continental Airlines Boeing 767-400? •The population of the USA today. •Roget's Thesaurus •How many fans can the NE Patriots Gillette Stadium seat?


EDW647 Internet For EducatorsIE Favorites and Cookies

•Links on the Toolbar

•Importing and Exporting Bookmarks (Favorites)

•Cookies (unique id numbers to personalize a web page)

•How to evaluate www web pages


EDW647 Internet For EducatorsIE Favorites (links)

•Links on the ToolbarYou can add fovorites to the links folder and they will show up on the IE toolbar.


EDW647 Internet For EducatorsImporting exporting IE Favorites

•You can export your favorites to a file. •Go to file -> import/export then use the wizard.



Export favorites



Select the folder


EDW647 Internet For EducatorsLaboratory Task – Useful Web Sites

•Find ten web sites on the Internet that would be useful.•Bookmark them in the favorites list.•Organize the Favorites list with a folder (classroom sites).•Export your Bookmarks (Favorites) to a file.•Show your web sites.•Rate your web sites according to the evaluation criteria.

•You can use: - Search Engines (google.com, ask.com, yahoo.com, etc). - Links off your school’s web site. - Links you already know, ex. www.discoverychannel.com.


Thank You

If you have any questions please feel free to email me:

Roger Webster, [email protected]

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