WebSearching

Using the links below as resources, describe how web searching works. Useful links: http://www.xseo.com/making-sense-of-search-engines.htm http://searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/article.php/2168031 [|http://computer.howstuff**work**s.com/**search**-engine.htm] [|www.learnthenet.com/english/animate/**search**.html]
 * Search Engines: How they work?**

Some key questions to answer:  . Types of Web Pages: · Advocacy · Business/marketing · Information · Portals · News · Personal Resource: DC 2.16 <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">13: Netiquette <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Create a poster which covers both Netiquette and the acceptable use of the Internet.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Write a list of the most commonly used search engines.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">What is meant by page ranking
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">How does Google rank its search results?
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">How can you improve your page ranking?
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Why do different search engines come up with different results?
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">The English language is for sale! Have you noticed that when you search your first page begins with a sponsored listing. People pay for keywords. Visit the site [] and watch the demo. Describe what a company has to do to set up a sponsored link and describe how it works.
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Read the article BBC News ‘Cheating’ the search engines, 05/04/07 and describe in your own words how search engines were tricked. What is search engine ‘spamming’?
 * 8) <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Search Engines are storing details of your search on their servers – describe how this is a breach of privacy? Work round this by using [|www.scroogle.org]
 * 9) <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">With the ever increase of Internet content being multimedia e.g. images, video clips and podcasts – Research and describe how these can be searched for? E.g. podcasts may use transcription, images use segmentation mapping, tagging photos is being used by individuals.
 * 10) <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Wolfram|Alpha is set to be a new type of search engine. It is a computational knowledge engine with its own internal knowledge base with a library of factual information, algorithms and search methods. Listen to Science Friday What’s Next in Web Searching (15th May 09) Try it out for yourself.
 * 11) <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Give some top 10 tips to students for effective web searching – create an A4 poster with these on.
 * 12) <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Using your text books describe the different types of content of web pages e.g. Tables, frames, forms, downloadable audio and video, streaming audio and video; webcasts, use of plug ins <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">

Resources
<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">7.6 Digital forgery, Gift of Fire p252 <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Computer Confluence: p 276 <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Discovering Computers 2.37

Research Google and read the article Google Friend or Foe. Describe how Google has developed over the years and what good it has brought about and then discuss why some people consider Google as bad. Write a short essay to discuss the good and bad of Google. > Next > Back to Year 12 page
 * Google - Good or Bad**