Today the lecture showed me how to use a search engine such as, google, yahoo, alltheweb etc. These search engines help when researching a topic or finding information. The lecture also showed the problems of search engines, which due to too many results appearing when searching something in the web, the limited filter quality meaning you might only get 3 different results whilst having 300 of the same thing. This can be fixed by limiting your search by adding phrases such as + and And in conjuction with keywords.
WORKSHOP:
The workshop consisted in creating four strategies that will help structure a good search.
*Know where to look first?
*Fine tune your search
*Be refined
*Anticipate the answers
The second activity consisted in answering a questionaire in the web whilst searching the answer. The answers to the quiz are indicated bleow:
Incas
Violet
Birchard
Tennyson
Shells
Maps
Puccini
Volcano
Basenji
Bosch
Waterloo
Ants
Leo
Siam
Mushrooms
Orangutan
Pluto
Benito
Lizard
Napoleon
After answering the quiz I recieved a certificate.
I used mostly google and yahoo search engine, I limited my search by finding keywords in the questions and using them in the search engine to obtain my answers.
Reading
The Reading had consisted mostly of Tips and strategies for using a search engine such as, refining your search by using keywords. It also provided some good search engines that are recommended by people to find information. The reading also included a brief history of search engines and how they came to be. This reading has taugh me tha search engines are abundant and it is a matter of getting down to the right search engine which suits what im looking for, not how many search engines can find me information on what i exactly want to know.
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