Empowerment Technologies - Online Search and Research Skills

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.

Google

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)