1. Copyright © 2008 Roger Webster, Ph.D. EDW647 Internet For Educators Search Engines and Bookmarks or Favorites Roger W. Webster, Ph.D. Department of Computer Science Millersville University (717) 872-3539 office Email: Roger.Webster@millersville.edu Home Page: http://cs.millersville.edu/~webster/ EDW647 Info: http://cs.millersville.edu/~webster/edw647/

2. Copyright © 2008 Roger Webster, Ph.D. EDW647 Internet For Educators Search Engines What is a Search Engine? How do Search Engines work? Guidelines for using Search Engines Sample Search Engines: www.google.com, www.yahoo.com, www.ask.com, Internet Scavenger Hunt

3. Copyright © 2008 Roger Webster, Ph.D. EDW647 Internet For Educators Search Engines What is a Search Engine? A search engine is a repository for indexed information gathered by webbots or infobots. How do Search Engines work? Infobots are software programs that scan www web pages and seek out information and assign key terms to the web page and report this to the main data base at the search engine site, for ex. www.google.com or www.yahoo.com. When you ask the search engine for something it reports only what its infobots have seen out on the web. That is why you get broken links (outdated web pages that the infobot scanned last year).

4. Copyright © 2008 Roger Webster, Ph.D. EDW647 Internet For Educators Search Engines Sample Search Engines: www.yahoo.com, www.google.com, www.ask.com, www.ajkids.comwww.google.com

5. Copyright © 2008 Roger Webster, Ph.D. EDW647 Internet For Educators Search Engines Each Search Engine has its own style and quirks. Is Search Engine an ‘OR’ or an ‘AND’ search engine Use “tuna fishing” quotes for exact phrase matches Can I use + and – to filter out words/phrases What other connectives can fine tune my search: NOT, AND, Please refer to each search engine’s help facility for details.

6. Copyright © 2008 Roger Webster, Ph.D. EDW647 Internet For Educators Search Engines Meta Search Engines like: www.dogpile.com Use other search engines to accumulate info from all the search engines. Be careful about information overload. Fine tune your searches with quotes or key commands..

7. Copyright © 2008 Roger Webster, Ph.D. EDW647 Internet For Educators Internet Scavenger Hunt Find the following on the World Wide Web and bookmark the URLs Current exchange rate for US dollars to Euro dollars. The words to Shakespeare's entire play "Hamlet" What movies are playing at what times at the Manor Cinema in Millersville/Lancaster (Regal Cinema)? A City-Zip code lookup system - (lookup Swampscott, Mass.) Find where seat 6B is on a Continental Airlines Boeing 767-400? The population of the USA today. Roget's Thesaurus How many fans can the NE Patriots Gillette Stadium seat?

8. Copyright © 2008 Roger Webster, Ph.D. EDW647 Internet For Educators IE Favorites and Cookies Links on the Toolbar Importing and Exporting Bookmarks (Favorites) Cookies (unique id numbers to personalize a web page) How to evaluate www web pages

9. Copyright © 2008 Roger Webster, Ph.D. EDW647 Internet For Educators IE Favorites (links) Links on the Toolbar You can add fovorites to the links folder and they will show up on the IE toolbar.

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11. EDW647 Internet For Educators Importing exporting IE Favorites You can export your favorites to a file. Go to file -> import/export then use the wizard.

12. Copyright © 2008 Roger Webster, Ph.D. EDW647 Internet For Educators Importing exporting IE Favorites Export favorites

13. Copyright © 2008 Roger Webster, Ph.D. EDW647 Internet For Educators Importing exporting IE Favorites Select the folder

14. Copyright © 2008 Roger Webster, Ph.D. EDW647 Internet For Educators Importing exporting IE Favorites

15. Copyright © 2008 Roger Webster, Ph.D. EDW647 Internet For Educators Laboratory Task – Useful Web Sites Find ten web sites on the Internet that would be useful. Bookmark them in the favorites list. Organize the Favorites list with a folder (classroom sites). Export your Bookmarks (Favorites) to a file. Show your web sites. Rate your web sites according to the evaluation criteria. You can use: - Search Engines (google.com, ask.com, yahoo.com, etc). - Links off your school’s web site. - Links you already know, ex. www.discoverychannel.com.

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17. Copyright © 2008 Roger Webster, Ph.D. Thank You If you have any questions please feel free to email me: Roger Webster, Ph.D. Roger.Webster@millersville.edu