Practice searching the internet using Google
Search #1
- Search for these words: hybrid cars
- How many results did you get?
- Modify your search so it looks like this: hybrid cars +mpg
- How many results did you get?
Search #2 -- CLEAR YOUR PREVIOUS SEARCH BY CLICKING ON THE GOOGLE ICON IN THE UPPER LEFT CORNER OF THE SCREEN
- Search for this word: dolphins
- How many results did you get?
- Modify your search so it looks like this: dolphins -football
- How did your results change?
Search #3 -- CLEAR YOUR PREVIOUS SEARCH BY CLICKING ON THE GOOGLE ICON IN THE UPPER LEFT CORNER OF THE SCREEN
- Search for these words: hybrid cars site:.gov
- Did you get ads in your results?
- What is the domain of all the results that aren't ads?
- Modify your search so it looks like this: hybrid cars +mpg
- How many results did you get?
Search #4 -- CLEAR YOUR PREVIOUS SEARCH BY CLICKING ON THE GOOGLE ICON IN THE UPPER LEFT CORNER OF THE SCREEN
- Search for these words: hybrid cars
- Click on the heading NEWS right above your results
- What happened to your results?
- Click on the heading SEARCH TOOLS right above your results
- In the drop down menu ANY TIME, select PAST WEEK
- What happened to your results in this search?
Search #5 -- CLEAR YOUR PREVIOUS SEARCH BY CLICKING ON THE GOOGLE ICON IN THE UPPER LEFT CORNER OF THE SCREEN
- Search for these words: wave energy
- How many results?
- Modify your search so it looks like this: "wave energy"
- What happened to your results?
- Modify your search so it looks like this: "wave energy" "new jersey"
- How many results do you have now?
- In the upper right corner of the Google screen is a gear symbol. Click on it.
- Select ADVANCED SEARCH from the menu.
- Find the FILE TYPE menu and select MICROSOFT POWERPOINT file type
- Click on SEARCH
- How many results do you have and what do you notice about the types of results you found?
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