Searching the Web

Know what you are doing

Which computer type?

• Are you using

a PC

or

a Mac?

This is a Mac or Apple computer

PC Computers

• PC used to mean Personal Computer but it has come to mean NOT a Mac

• So:Dell, HP, etc

Browsers

• A web browser is a software application for retrieving information on the World Wide Web.

Safari Firefox Internet Explorer

Search Engines

• Google• Yahoo• AOL• Bing

• Different tools looking for stuff on the Web -robots called spiders do the looking

DirectoriesWeb sites selected by people

and sorted by subject

• http://directory.google.com/• http://www.ipl.org/• http://dir.yahoo.com• http://www.dmoz.org/

http://dir.yahoo.com/

http://www.ipl.org/

Search box is where you enter your query

Navigation bar has a space for web address or URL of web site

Make sure you know how to bookmark web sites so you can easily get back to them

Almost 13 million hits in quarter of a second

•.com sites are commercial but can be very good

•.edu sites could belong to a university but may be by students

•.org sites are usually great but may have a bias

•.gov is from the government

In a long article, use ctrl+F or Find under edit

Enter word you are looking for, it will be highlighted

Evaluating a web page

• Here are some things to consider when selecting web pages, the who, what, when, where and why.

• From kathyschrock.net

• See here to think about evaluating all sources of information

Some sites to look at

• Dog Island: Free Forever

• Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus

• Haggis Hunt

• Sellafield Zoo

• The World’s First Transgenic Mouse