RESEARCH SEARCH ENGINES MYTH FACT SEARCH ENGINES LISTS

RESEARCH

SEARCH ENGINES �MYTH � �FACT SEARCH ENGINES LISTS THE RESULTS OF A SEARCH BASED ON HOW IMPORTANT THEY ARE. I can’t find it! THE FIRST RESULTS FROM A SEARCH ARE COMPANIES THAT PAID TO BE LISTED FIRST. � THE SEARCH ENGINE THEN LOOKS AT “TITLES OF PAGES” FOR THE WORDS BEING SEARCHED. � THE SEARCH ENGINE THEN LISTS THE RESULTS THAT CONTAIN THE WORDS FREQUENTLY. �

CAN I TRUST IT? �MYTH EVERYTHING ON THE WEB IS TRUE � THE WEB IS THE ONLY PLACE I CAN FIND UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION � THE URL ADDRESS DOESN’T MEAN ANYTHING � �FACT ANYONE CAN HAVE A WEBSITE � THE LIBRARY KEEPS UPTO-DATE PRINTED MATERIALS � URL DOMAINS TELL WHAT SORT OF ORGANIZATION CREATED THE WEB SITE �

These sound good!! THERE ARE FIVE GENERAL URL DOMAIN NAMES (THERE ARE OTHERS THAT ARE NOT USED FREQUENTLY) EDUCATION WEBSITES. EDU. K 12 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WEBSITES. GOV. MIL (WATCH OUT FOR TILDE ˜)

I better double check it. NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS . ORG (THESE ARE OFTEN GEARED TOWARD INFLUENCING OPINIONS) INTERNET NETWORKS . NET. COMMERCIAL SITES SOME MAY BE REPUTABLE SUCH AS {NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC. COM} OTHERS MAY CONTAIN INCORRECT INFORMATION. (MAY BE BIASED)

SPLILLING & Gramatacel erors Martian. L King wus born in 1973. he marched down the parad in September of 1989 to washington. The crowd surounded him as they made they’re way to the Capital. I don’t know. I thought he spelled his name “Martein”

SPONSOR OF WEB PAGE Valuable information can be found about web sites in the “About Us” section. This shows sponsors relationships to others. (EX. Time Warner’s information gives the relationship of the company to other companies such as AOL, Turner, and HBO. ) This could establish bias material on the web site.

Author of the information given on the web page I read the information off of 4 people’s blogs and I knew 3 of them! The information should be right. I paid $35. 00 for the essay. The web site belongs to some of the business places around here so it must be right. There was no author.

LAST UPDATE OF THE WEB PAGE Very important when researching information on: Technology information Medical information Scientific information Industrial information Current news This could be important!!

TENNESSEE ELECTRONIC LIBRARY www. tntel. info Can access the database anytime and anywhere. -magazine articles Newspapers Reference books multimedia

There is just too much. I better do a “PHRASE SEARCH” BENEFIT BY PLACING YOUR PHRASE INSIDE QUOTATION MARKS THE SEARCH ENGINE LOOKS FOR THE EXACT PHRASE. THIS ALSO REDUCES THE NUMBER OF RESPONSES YOU RECEIVE. PROBLEM SPELLING HAS TO BE CORRECT IN EVERY WORD MAY NOT GIVE A SITE THAT WOULD BE BENEFICIAL

Plagiarism/tnla. org Well, I just used some of it, so that doesn’t count AND Everybody cuts and pastes all the time AND I’ll change a few of the words and my teacher will never know the difference AND Nobody really cares if you do this or not.