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Copyright ©: SAMSUNG & Samsung Hope for Youth. All rights reserved Tutorials The internet: Web searches Web searches Beginner

Copyright ©: SAMSUNG & Samsung Hope for Youth. All rights reserved Tutorials The internet: Web searches Beginner The internet is enormous. How can you find what you want? Search engines are web pages that allow you to search the rest of the internet.

Copyright ©: SAMSUNG & Samsung Hope for Youth. All rights reserved Tutorials The internet: Web searches Two popular search engines are Google and Bing. Type the information you want to find into the ‘search bar’. Then press ‘return’ or click on the button at the end of the search bar. Beginner

Copyright ©: SAMSUNG & Samsung Hope for Youth. All rights reserved Tutorials The internet: Web searches The search engine will bring up pages of search results for you. Each result is a web page that contains the words you searched for. Click on the links until you find a web page with what you’re looking for. Beginner

Copyright ©: SAMSUNG & Samsung Hope for Youth. All rights reserved Tutorials The internet: Web searches Use the right search terms to find exactly what you want. ‘Turkey’ will bring up every web page containing this word. ‘Beach holidays Turkey’ or ‘Turkey recipes Christmas’ are much better! Beginner

Copyright ©: SAMSUNG & Samsung Hope for Youth. All rights reserved Tutorials The internet: Web searches Many search engines let you find images, videos and news in your search results. After you enter your search terms, click on what you want to explore, such as ‘images’. Beginner

Copyright ©: SAMSUNG & Samsung Hope for Youth. All rights reserved Tutorials The Internet: Web searches You can also search for places and items to buy. This can help you find the product you need, and then visit the store! Beginner

Copyright ©: SAMSUNG & Samsung Hope for Youth. All rights reserved Tutorials The internet: Web searches Your web browser can store the web addresses of useful web pages. These are called ‘bookmarks’. Bookmarks mean you don't have to search the web every time. Use the ‘Bookmarks’ menu at the top of your web browser, or press the ‘CTRL’ and ‘D’ keys at the same time. Beginner

Copyright ©: SAMSUNG & Samsung Hope for Youth. All rights reserved Tutorials The internet: Web searches Well done You’ve completed the tutorial! Visit the ‘Tutorials’ section of the website for information on using other equipment and software. Or you can visit the ‘Case studies’ section and be inspired to use your new knowledge in creative ways! Beginner

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Copyright ©: SAMSUNG & Samsung Hope for Youth. All rights reserved Tutorials The internet: Web searches Improver Advanced web searches can help you find what you want, and leave out what you don't want. Look for an ‘Advanced search’ button or link. This might only appear once you’ve done a basics search.

Copyright ©: SAMSUNG & Samsung Hope for Youth. All rights reserved Tutorials The internet: Web searches An advanced search lets you search for web pages that include every word: Use this if you’re searching for ‘cars’ AND ‘climate change’, for example. Improver

Copyright ©: SAMSUNG & Samsung Hope for Youth. All rights reserved Tutorials The internet: Web searches You can also search for an exact phrase: For example, use this feature to search for ‘Life in 19th century France’ Improver

Copyright ©: SAMSUNG & Samsung Hope for Youth. All rights reserved Tutorials The internet: Web searches You may want to search for web pages that include one or more key words, but which don't have to contain all of them. For example, use this to search for ‘mammals’ OR ‘carnivores’. Improver

Copyright ©: SAMSUNG & Samsung Hope for Youth. All rights reserved Tutorials The internet: Web searches You can make sure that your results don't show pages that include some words So to find pages that include ‘mammals’ but NOT ‘carnivores’. Enter ‘mammals’ into the ‘search for’ bar at the top, and ‘carnivores’ into this bar. Improver

Copyright ©: SAMSUNG & Samsung Hope for Youth. All rights reserved Tutorials The internet: Web searches You can even search just one website. Improver

Copyright ©: SAMSUNG & Samsung Hope for Youth. All rights reserved Tutorials The internet: Web searches You can also choose sites that feature your key words in their page title, their web address, or in the main text on the page. Improver

Copyright ©: SAMSUNG & Samsung Hope for Youth. All rights reserved Tutorials The internet: Web searches You can do many of these things in a normal search engine. To do this, add words and symbols called ‘Boolean operators’. Improver

Copyright ©: SAMSUNG & Samsung Hope for Youth. All rights reserved Tutorials The internet: Web searches AND lets you search for web pages containing both words: Mammals AND carnivores OR lets you search for web pages containing one or both: Improver

Copyright ©: SAMSUNG & Samsung Hope for Youth. All rights reserved Tutorials The internet: Web searches AND NOT lets you find only pages that don't include a word Mammals AND NOT carnivores This will find pages that include ‘mammals’ but not also ‘carnivores’. You can also do this using a minus sign: Improver

Copyright ©: SAMSUNG & Samsung Hope for Youth. All rights reserved Tutorials The internet: Web searches Use “ “ to search for an exact phrase: Improver

Copyright ©: SAMSUNG & Samsung Hope for Youth. All rights reserved Tutorials The internet: Web searches Use site: and -site: to include or exclude sites from your search. screen site: will only search this site. screen-site: will search all sites except this one. Improver

Copyright ©: SAMSUNG & Samsung Hope for Youth. All rights reserved Tutorials The internet: Web searches Well done You’ve completed the tutorial! Visit the ‘Tutorials’ section of the website for information on using other equipment and software. Or you can visit the ‘Case studies’ section and be inspired to use your new knowledge in creative ways! Improver