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4.1.

6 Practice:
Using Internet
Search Strategies Practice
Introduction to Name:
Business and
Technology Sem 2 Date:

Reflect (10 points)

On your assignment sheet, answer questions about Internet search engines.

1. Explain the difference between a web browser and a search engine. (2 points)

2. What is indexing? How does it make search engines work more efficiently? (2
points)

3. What is a web directory? What are the key differences between web directories
and search engines? (2 points)
4. What are page-ranking algorithms? Why are they so important? (2 points)

5. What can you look for on a website to indicate that the information it presents is
reliable? (2 points)

Analyze (14 points)

Analyze various methods of conducting Internet research.

1. Magda is on a wellness committee at her company. As a member of the


committee, she is planning to give a presentation to her coworkers about the flu in
preparation for the upcoming cold and flu season. She wants to do some research
on the history, diagnosis, and treatment of the flu.

a) Help her identify some effective keyword and Boolean search strategies by filling
out the table below. (5 points)

Strategy What It Does Example

Quotation Marks “flu vaccines”


Plus sign ( + ) flu+vaccine+history

Pipe symbol (|) flu vaccine|antibiotics

OR flu vaccine OR antibiotics

flu vaccine NOT


NOT availability

b) Magda was able to find the following sources when she searched "flu diagnosis"
using her favorite search engine:
Help her
determine whether these sources are accurate, relevant, and valid by filling out the
table below. (9 points)

  Accurate? Relevant? Valid?

First website

Second website

Third website
Synthesize (16 points)

Apply methods of effective Internet search strategies.


Use your favorite search engine to research one of topics below.

 Renewable energy

 The Ebola virus

 The Human Genome Project

1. List the keywords you typed in to your search engine. Then list the first three
results. (3 points)

2. Now, use a different search engine and type in the same keyword. Did you get the
same results as your first search? List the first three results from this search. (3
points)

3. You would like to narrow your search on this topic.

a) You want to look for information on this topic's history, but you don't want to
include any information that pre-dates 1975. What Boolean operator would you use?
(2 points)
b) You want to look up information on this topic as it relates to the U.S. government.
What Boolean operator would you use? (2 points)

4. From all of your cumulative search results, list three reliable sources that you've
found.

a) Cite these sources in MLA format. (3 points)

b) How can you confirm that these sites provide information that is accurate,
relevant, and valid? (3 points)
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4.1.6 Practice: Using Internet Search Strategies

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