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Search Engines and Databases

Search Engines and Databases. What is a search engine?. a tool on the internet that helps you find the web site you’re looking for You type a subject into the “search box,” and the search engine gives you web sites that contain those words that you typed. s earch box. results.

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Search Engines and Databases

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  1. Search Engines and Databases

  2. What is a search engine? • a tool on the internet that helps you find the web site you’re looking for • You type a subject into the “search box,” and the search engine gives you web sites that contain those words that you typed. search box results

  3. What is a search engine? A Search Engine on the Internet: • can have unreliable information (opinions, changes by users like on Wikipedia, etc.) • can make you pay a fee for valuable content (like magazine or newspaper articles) • can have annoying pop-up ads, flashing banners, and advertisements on web pages.

  4. What are some examples of search engines?

  5. What is a database? • an online tool that has information organized into categories so that you can easily search for information

  6. What is a database? Databases: • work through the Internet, but are not Internet sites. • are published by reliable companies, like book publishers. • provide access to information, articles, and more. • use very flexible search methods. • in FBISD are "free“ for you to use; just go to the FBISD home page> departments> library> online resources

  7. What are some examples of databases?

  8. keywords • word(s) you type into a search box in order to get a list of web sites that contain information about that topic • help(s) you find exactly what you are looking for, not everything on the internet that includes that word (or those words) in the topic • For example, “dolphins not Miami” brings up everything about dolphins, but not the Miami Dolphins football team

  9. Use keywords • Using one keyword will result in a large list of web sites on that topic ex)dogs Possible topics: hot dogs dogs (animals) the Dogs (a team) “dogs” (people who are mean to others)

  10. More key words gives you a more specific web site • ex) dogs • gives you lots of web sites on different topics hot dogs • Gives you less web sites to look through and is likely to be about food or people showing off

  11. Where to type your keywords: • search engine • database

  12. Activity: What Dog is Best for Me? • Open Internet Explorer. • Go to Sweet Search (http://www.sweetsearch.com/) • Type dog into the search box. • Are all of the results about pet dogs? • How can we narrow our search so that we only get information about types of dogs?

  13. Resources Boulder Library. “Databases vs. the Internet: what’s the Difference?” June 6, 2012. http://boulderlibrary.org/reference/db_vs_internet.html

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