Research-How Search Works, Keywords, and Boolean Operators
Machine Learning
Technique for making a computer produce better results by learning from past experiences.
Digital Citizenship
The norms of appropriate, responsible behavior with regard to technology use.
Search engines
a database website that allows the user to locate links to specific information given search criteria, such as Google, Yahoo, and Bing
Page Rank
a mathematical algorithm named after Google co-founder Larry Page to indicate how important a page is on the web; used as a metric when evaluating websites.
Hyponym
a more specific word within a category or under a hypernym
Algorithm
A step-by-step procedure for solving a problem, especially by a computer.
Boolean Operators
AND, OR, and NOT used in search strings to refine the scope of the search
When you are searching
Advertisement may/will appear on the right side and top of your screen. Google puts advertisement you want to see based on your history.
Hyperlink (link)
An element used to connect one Web page to another Web page on the same server or to Web pages on different Web servers located anywhere in the world.
Google results
come back in as little as 1/2 second
Search engines
constantly search and scan in advance to record information
George Boole
created Boolean algebra logic system
Search engines
do not work in real time
Search Index
A database of information used for doing a search
URL
Uniform Resource Locator; a location or address identifying where documents can be found on the Internet; a Web address
Over a billion websites
exist on the internet and hundreds more are created every single minute
finds the best results by finding quality information using a ranking system
Boolean Operators
help you focus and broaden a search and they need to be used in all caps
is committed to deliver useful and impartial information
research
request specific information
All of us are
responsible for keeping an eye out for pages that are untrustworthy and not from credible sources
Search programs are always evolving
to improve and give us better and faster results
search
to look for something
Boolean Operator OR
used to broaden a search
Boolean Operator NOT
used to exclude something from a search
Boolean Operator AND
used to narrow a search
Keywords
used to narrow the research and get the best results
Spiders
what search engines use to collect information
A search term result
will give you a title, URL address, a description, recent versions, related searches and more
Keywords
words that describe the information the user is trying to locate