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EMPOWERMENT TECHNOLOGIES

use the Internet as a tool for


credible research and
information gathering to best
achieve specific class
objectives or address
situational
•

•
the process of interactively searching
for and retrieving requested
information via a computer from
databases that are online.
are websites used for retrieval of
data, files, or documents from data
bases.
• the best search engine worldwide. What
made Google the most popular and trusted
search engine is the quality of its search
results
• Google is using sophisticated algorithms to
present the most accurate results to the
users.
• the best alternative search engine to Google. Bing
is Microsoft’s attempt to challenge Google in
search, but despite their efforts, they still did not
manage to convince users that their search engine
can be as reliable as Google.
• Bing originated from Microsoft’s previous
search engines (MSN Search, Windows Live
Search, Live
Search).
• one of the most popular
email providers and its
web search engine holds
third place in search with
an average of 2% market
share.
• searches across more than 300 million
images from open APIs and the
Common Crawl dataset. It goes
beyond simple search to aggregate
results across multiple public
repositories into a single catalog, and
facilitates reuse through features like
machine-generated tags and one-click
attribution.
• A URL is one type of
Uniform Resource
Identifier (URI).
• It is a generic term for all
types of names and
addresses that refer to
objects on the world wide
• Think before you search.
Think about the topic or question woul
d
you like to search. Think about how
describe the topic and choose 3 or 4
you would
keywords

2 . Keep it simple.
Describe what you want in as few terms
as possible.
3. Be specific.
The more precise your search terms
are, the more precise your search
results will be. Avoid general or
common words. 4.
Imagine how the webpage you
are hoping to find will b
4. Imagine how the webpage
you are hoping to find will be
written. Use words that are
likely to appear on that page.
5. Capitalization,
punctuation and spelling
don’t really matter.
In most cases, search engines will
ignore capitalization and punctuation
in a
search and will generally auto-
6.Narrow your search results.
There are several ways to help you narrow
your search results to find exactly what
you’re looking for.:
• Use quotation marks to find exact
phrases or names. Put a word or
phrase inside quotes.
Example: "tallest building"
• Use Boolean Operators (AND, OR, and
NOT) to broaden or narrow your search.
• AND (+ in Google) narrows the search
because it requires both terms to be in
each item returned.
Example: Peanut Butter +and Jam
• OR broadens the search
because either term (or both)
will be in the returned items.
(OR gives you more!)
Example: marathon OR race
• NOT (- in Google) narrows your
search because it will
eliminate any results with the
second term. Example: jaguar
speed -car
7. Apply filters.
After you search, most search
engines have filters available
that will refine you search to a
specific type of contact.
8. Search a specific site.
If you’re looking for a specific topic on a
particular website, you can use site: to
limit your search results to that site.
Example: site:youtube.com or site:.gov
9. Search for a specific filetype.
If you know that you’re searching
for a particular type of file use
filetype: to
narrow your search results to a
certain type of file.
Example: filetype:ppt
10. Search for a definition.
If you are looking for a
definition of a term, you can
use define.
Example: define
communication
11. Search for a time.
If you are searching for a time
in specific country, use time .
Example: time Dubai
12. Search for social media.
Put @ in front of a word to
search social media.
Example: @twitter
13. Search for a price.
Put $ in front of a
number. Example:
camera $400
14. Search
hashtags. Put # in
front of a word.
Example:
#throwbackthursday
15. Search for wildcards or
unknown words.
Put a * in your word or phrase
where you want to leave a
placeholder.
Example: "largest * in the world".
16. Search within a
range of numbers.
Put .. between two
numbers. Example:
camera $50..$100.
Activities that happened
last December 2019.
Keyword/s: #December2019
Laptop suited for your
budget ranging from $200
to $400.
Keyword/s: Laptop $200..$400
All information about
Globe
Keyword/s: @Globe
Information about the
exact words sky scraper
Keyword/s: “sky scraper”
Shoes with a price of
$50
Keyword/s: Shoes $50
Meaning of
engine
Keyword/s: Define engine
Search for pdf
files
Keyword/s: Filetype:pdf
Canada
time
Time Canada
Keyword/s:
Education
site
Keyword/s: Site:.edu
Events on May
2016
Keyword/s: #May2016

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