Post on 11-Apr-2017
Introduction to searching the web
Workshop Outline• What is the Internet?
• What is the World Wide Web?• What is a search engine?
• What do search engines search? • What do they not search?
• How do you make sure you are getting the most relevant results?
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Image via Scott Beale Welcome To The Internet
The Internet
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Go here to learn about the history of the internet
“A Short History Lesson: The Internet began in the 1960s as a U.S. Department of Defense communication network. Soon after, university researchers and professors began to use it to communicate with others in their fields. Internet use really took off in the early 1990s with the arrival of the Web, which made it easier to find and view information online. [emphasis added] “Via the US Department of Education
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List of Search EnginesImage via Philipbradley
Search Engines• A program that searches
for and identifies items in a database that correspond to keywords or characters specified by the user, used especially for finding particular sites on the World Wide Web.
• Via Oxford dictionary • More information on search engines
Photo by Beao via wikipedia
Yahoo as it looked on Dec. 20, 1996 , via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine
What do search engines search?
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Better Googling
Citations needed
• Google Search on Martin Luther King, jr.
More information on evaluating websites
Google Scholar
Ten search engines for researchers that go beyond Google
Questions?Image via Dom Dada