1. Search technology-fact websites

Sometimes we want to search straight for the detailed information about something technical e.g. how does a helicopter fly? or what makes a telescope work? In times like this we want to go to a reliable source of information without having to trawl through page after page of useless Google results.

The sites below are significant online sites for technology facts.

3. Search major encyclopedia

An encyclopedia was traditionally a large book with an A to Z of facts. A good printed encyclopedia could have up to 50,000 articles in it. These days web-based encyclopedia have much more content and are able to expand on each article to include multimedia such as pictures and audio & video clips.

For these resources, make sure you are signed into HWB and Google for education using your HWB email.

4. Search for food recipes

Rather than waste time googling an image search, type your search terms in these text boxes to search the sites directly. This will help you save time.

These websites represent some of the most popular and useful cookery pages online.

5. Use popular 'search engines'

A search engine is a website with a unique search 'algorithm' (set of instructions) connected to a huge database of websites. When the user inserts a search term a page is returned with web content mapped from the database. These days a lot of search results are distorted in favour of content from sites that pay to have their content appear towards the top of a search result. Cookies also pay a large role in affecting search results.