Research-How Search Works, Keywords, and Boolean Operators

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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

Google

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

Google

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


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