1. I NVESTIGATING S EARCH E NGINES AND D IRECTORIES A CTIVITY S HEETS A CTIVITY S HEETS 6 th -8 th Grade

2. W HAT SEARCH SITES DO YOU USE ? What are some features you like about them? Is there one you do not like to use? Why? You may think a little differently about search engines after this…

3. W HAT DOES A SPIDER HAVE TO DO WITH IT ? Search engines use a computer program called a spider to roam the World Wide. Web exploring Web pages and their links. The spider collects information and then a second computer program indexes all the information. Each search engine’s spider and index organizes Web pages a bit differently.

4. W HY DO WE GET DIFFERENT RESULTS USING DIFFERENT SEARCH ENGINES WITH THE SAME KEYWORDS ?

5. H OW IS A DIRECTORY DIFFERENT FROM A SEARCH ENGINE ?

6. W HEN IS IT BEST TO USE A M ETA -S EARCH E NGINE ?

7. W HY SHOULDN ’ T YOU STICK WITH ONE SITE TO SEARCH FOR INFORMATION ?

8. S EARCH E NGINES Ask.com Google Live.com Quintura for Kids Clusty

9. D IRECTORY S ITES About Open Directory Project Lycos Yahoo! Directory

10. M ETA -S EARCH E NGINES Dogpile MetaCrawler