LECTURE # 5
Contextualized Online
Search and
Research Skills
To do this activity, you may use laptop or
smartphone that is connected
to the internet. Use web browser like
Google Chrome, Internet Explorer or
Microsoft Edge. Write your answer in your
notebook.
Google the name of our President.
Open Google, type the name
Rodrigo Duterte in the search box
as shown below.
Google your name.
If you found out all the information about
yourself when you searched your
name, it only means that it is exposed to public
and you are prone to internet
threats. What you will do to secure your private
information and avoid internet
threats?
Online search is the process of
interactively searching for and
retrieving requested information
via a computer from databases
that are online.
Search engine is a service that allows
internet users to search for content via
the World Wide Web (WWW). A user enters
keywords or key phrases into a search
engine and receives a list of Web content
results in the form of websites, images,
videos or other online data.
Google is the best search engine
worldwide. What made Google the
most popular and trusted search
engine is the quality of its search
results.
Yahoo is one of the most popular
email providers and its web search
engine holds third place in search with
an average of 2% market share.
Bing is the best alternative search
engine to Google. Bing is Microsoft’s
attempt to challenge Google in search,
but despite their efforts, they
still did not manage to convince users
that their search engine can be
as reliable as Google.
CC Search searches across more than 300
million images from open APIs and
the Common Crawl dataset. It goes
beyond simple search to aggregate results
across multiple public repositories into a
single catalog, and facilitates reuse
through features like machine-generated
tags and one-click attribution.
CC Search searches across more than 300
million images from open APIs and
the Common Crawl dataset. It goes
beyond simple search to aggregate results
across multiple public repositories into a
single catalog, and facilitates reuse
through features like machine-generated
tags and one-click attribution.
Use quotation marks to find exact
phrases or names. Put a word or
phrase inside quotes.
Example: "tallest building"
Use Boolean Operators (AND, OR,
and NOT) to broaden or narrow your
search.
Example: Peanut Butter +and Jam
Search a specific site. If you’re
looking for a specific topic on a
particular website
Example: site:[Link] or site:.gov
• Search for a definition.
Example: define
communication
Search for a time. If you
are searching for a time in
specific country, use time
<country>.
Example: time Dubai
Search for social media.
Put @ in front of a word to
search social media.
Example: @twitter
Search for a price. Put $
in front of a number.
Example: camera $400
• Search hashtags. Put # in
front of a word.
Example: #throwbackthursday
• Search for wildcards or
unknown words
Example: "largest * in the world"
ACTIVITY # 2
In your Mathematics subject, you are
tasked to get the equivalent of 124
centimeters to inches, then to
millimeter. Your teacher said that you
can use Google to search for it.
1. What will you type in the search
box? _________________
2. Is your screen same as the
figure below? _______
3. What value will you type in the
box for centimeters? __________
4. What is the returned value in
inches? ___________
5. What is the returned value in
millimeter? ___________
ACTIVITY # 3
Write the keyword/s to search the
following through Google search
engine.
1. Activities that happened last
December 2019.
Keyword/s: _______________
2. Laptop suited for your budget
ranging from $200 to $400.
Keyword/s: _______________
3. All information about Globe
Keyword/s: _______________
4. Information about the exact
words sky scraper
Keyword/s: _______________
5. Shoes with a price of $50
Keyword/s: ______________
6. Meaning of engine
Keyword/s: _________
7. Search for pdf files
Keyword/s: ____________
8. Canada time
Keyword/s: _______
9. Education site
Keyword/s: ___________
10. Events on May 2016
Keyword/s: ___________
