empowerment technologies - online search and research skills
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Prepared by: Mark Jhon C. Oxillo
is the process of
interactively searching
for and retrieving
requested information
via a computer from
databases that are
online.
Have a question in mind.
Narrow it down.
Advanced search.
Look for credible sources.
Give credit.
is a software system that is
designed to search for
information on the World
Wide Web. The search results
are generally presented in a
line of results often referred
to as search engine results
pages.
Bing
Yahoo
Baidu
Ask.com
Yandex
DuckDuckGo
ChaCha.com
+ - allows you to include
terms that are usually ignored
“ ” – finds the exact words
in a phrase
( ) – Finds or excludes web
pages that contain a group of
words
AND or & - Finds web pages that contains all the terms or phrases
NOT or – - Excludes web pages that contain a term or phrase
OR or | - Finds web pages that contain either or the term or phrases
site:website.com - provide results from a specific website
* (asterisk) - if you do not know the exact terms
related:website.com –provides related websites
terms such as “square root of
1000” (as calculator)
terms such as “5 inch to cm”
(as converter)
“Weather in Manila” (as
weather forecaster)
“Current time in Davao City”
(as timekeeper)