Internet Search

Internet Search

By Stacy Ludwig

Multiple Choice

In doing research about people during the American Revolution you notice Google has given you over a million results.

How do you narrow your search to get fewer results?

• Go to Wikipedia because you know they will only give you the important information.

• Don't use Google, use Internet Explorer

• Type in a more specific search such as American Revolution "Benjamin Franklin".

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You have a project on plant vs. animal cells so you type in the word "cells", but see pictures of jail cells.

What is NOT a helpful idea to complete your research?

• Make your search more specific search by adding Plant and Animal Cells.

• Type Plant and Animals in quotation marks after you type cells.

• Scroll through the 1.5 million searches until you find a few about plants and animals.

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If you want to narrow down the results of an internet search, what should you do?

• Add more relevant words to your search

• Remove the quotation marks from around your words

• Try using a more powerful search engine.

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What is the best domain to find out about the University of West Florida?

• .mil

• .edu

• .gov

• .com

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What is the best domain for your sister who wants to find information about getting a driving permit from the Florida Highway Safety Motor Vehicles

• .com

• .gov

• .org

• .net

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What domain is best to find out about Youth Internships (jobs) at the White House.

• .mil

• .org

• .com

• .gov

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What's the best domain to learn about a specific branch of the military?

• .org

• .mil

• .com

• .net

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The more words in your search, the better your results will be.

• True
• False

Multiple Choice

_{What is this?}

• Ads
• Filters
• URL
• Snippet

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What are these?

• Ads
• Snippet
• Filters
• Title

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What is this?

• Search Bar
• Snippet
• Filter
• Ads

Multiple Choice

What are the two most important keywords in the search, "What is the capital of Florida?"

• What & capital

• capital & of

• is & the

• capital & Florida

Multiple Choice

If you accidentally type "chicken noodle soap" into a search engine, which results are most likely to show?

• Chicken scented hand soap

• Recipes for chicken noodle soup

• Tips for how to wash chickens

• How to cook with soap

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What can you conclude about a term that a search engine automatically completes for you?

• Many people have also been searching for it recently

• The search engine is smarter than you

• Parrots told Siri to put it there.

• The search engine doesn't have clue about what you are looking up

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Searching for "outer solar system," with the quotation marks, will give you results that:

• Only shows Star Wars movies

• Have no results at all, page will be blank

• Contains the whole phrase, "outer solar system"

• Only shows pictures of all solar systems