internet searches

Online Search Tips

• Use as many keywords as possible to narrow down the results, but don't include articles like the, an, and.
• If you don't find a useful website on the first page of results, you didn't provide the appropriate keywords.
• If you want to type in a key phrase (more than one word) and have the search engine look for those words together, put them in quotes.
• Once you have found a page, use your browser's Find feature to find a specific word on the page you are looking for.
• A search engine, like Google, gathers results from all over the web without verifying it's validity or appropriateness. Therefore you are more likely to get junk in your results that you will need to filter out.
• A directory service, like Ask Jeeves or Yahoo, gathers results from the web based on a list of sites it has approved. Therefore you may get fewer results, but hopefully more on topic.
• A wiki, like wikipedia, is a collection of text and photos, nearly all of which can be visited and edited by anyone at any time. Therefore a wiki may have lots of information about some topics and little on others. Because it can be edited by anyone, you may need to validate information with other sources.
• Do not copy and paste information from a website into your project. This is plagarism. Put the information you learn into your own words.
• You always want to cite your sources, including websites where you learned information or found an image. Google is not a source, it is a search engine. The source is the web address where you found the information.

Keyword Challenge

Query Checklist
Use this checklist to build an optimal query

Search Challenges

• Apollo 8 challenge
• piranha challenge
• Kermit challenge