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Online Information Yr 11

Online information is data accessible via the internet, categorized into primary sources created by individuals and secondary sources created by others. Search engines retrieve relevant web pages based on user-entered keywords, with examples including Google and Bing. Effective search strategies include using specific keywords, search types, tools, and syntax for better results.

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Online Information Yr 11

Online information is data accessible via the internet, categorized into primary sources created by individuals and secondary sources created by others. Search engines retrieve relevant web pages based on user-entered keywords, with examples including Google and Bing. Effective search strategies include using specific keywords, search types, tools, and syntax for better results.

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Online information

Definition
Online information refers to data or content that is accessible via
internet

Information sources
Primary sources: Are those you have created by yourself
Secondary sources: are those that have been created by
someone else
Examples of primary and secondary sources
Primary Secondary

Photographs that you have taken Newspapers, books and maps

Interviews or questionnaires CDs, DVDs or Blue-rays created by


conducted by you others

Your own blogs, social media posts or Televisions and radio broadcasts
emails

Your own sound or video recordings Websites created by other people


Search engines: Compares the words entered by the user in a database
of web pages and show the results that are the closest match.
How search engines work
The search engine compares words or phrases entered by a user against
a databases of pages and returns a URLs or descriptions of those that
match.
Examples of search engines
• Bing
• Creative commons
• Duck duck go
• Google
• Yahoo
How to use search engines effectively
1. Use of keywords; It might be something specific related to
the topic you are interested in.
2. Search type; Some search engines allow you to specify the
type of information that you are searching.
3. Search tools; Search tools help you to filter the result that
the search engine returns.
4. Suggested sites and Autofill; Some search engines give the
results as soon as you start to type the keywords. That is
Autofill.
Other search engines suggest sites that user might be interested
in visiting or your own browsing history. That is suggested sites.
5.Use of search syntax(+,-,””)
Syntax is a set of rules that describe how words and phrases are
used in a language
a) AND(+).Adding + between words will return words on results
that match both words.
b) NOT(-).Adding – before a word will return any result that do not
include that word
c) Phrase matching(Quotation marks “ “) Placing a speech mark
around a group of words will return only results that include the
whole phrase with the words in that specific order.

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