Using Search Engines. What is a search engine? A program that searches documents for specific keywords After its search, it gives you a list of the documents.

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Using Search Engines

What is a search engine? A program that searches documents for specific keywords After its search, it gives you a list of the documents where the keywords were found. Although search engine is really a general class of programs, the term is often used to specifically describe systems like Google, Alta Vista and Excite that enable users to search for documents on the World Wide Web.

Search Engines for Kids and Young Adults Examples

Quick questions… When would searching on a Kid-Friendly search engine work best? Would every search engine give you the same results for the same topic?

Trying out these Search Engines… The following are topics the 5 th grade teachers want you to do practice searches on: Poetry Favorite author Explorers Atoms Chemistry States of Matter