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TECHNOLOGIES: Web Search & Content

Evaluation

 TECHNOLOGIES: Web Search & Content Evaluation

In online learning, it is important to take advantage of abundant web resources available to you.

However, finding highly relevant information from the enormous amount of information that is

available is challenging to every internet user.

In 1994, Yahoo! as a leading directory website began to manually classify websites and provide

categories and navigation for internet users to more easily locate the websites they were interested

in. These directories quickly faded as text-based searching was developed. Users no longer had to

go to a website directory to start exploring the internet. Instead, they typed keywords to retrieve

information from a much wider range of web resources.  

In 1996, the launch of Google’s search engine implemented by link ranking techniques provided

users with unprecedented experience in information searching. A search engine returns relevant

information according to the key words input by a user. As the development of searching

techniques have improved, search engines themselves have evolved. They have become more and

more “intelligent,” doing more than simply matching the key word entered.

The more you know about the searching technology, the more confident and efficient you are when

searching web. To build your confidence and improve your skills at web searching, we have

provided some strategies and tips for you below to make a full use of those “intelligent” search

engines.  

1. A brief history of search engines:

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2. Web Search Strategies & Tools: Video: Web Search Strategies (https://www.commoncraft.com/video/web-search-strategies)  (From

commoncraft.com)

Seven Habits of Highly Effective Web Searchers (Scan)

(http://websearch.about.com/od/searchingtheweb/a/sevenhabits.htm)  (From About.com)

10 tips for smarter, more efficient Internet searching (scan) (http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/10-

things/10-tips-for-smarter-more-efficient-internet-searching/)  (From www.techrepublic.com

(http://www.techrepublic.com)

Search Engine list (scan) (https://osu.instructure.com/courses/58036/pages/List_of_search_engines)

 (from Wikipedia.com)

3. Google Search: How to search on Google (https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/134479?hl=en)  (From

Google.com)

Punctuation, symbols & operators in Google Search

(https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433)  (From Google.com)

4. Exercise (non-graded):

Try any web search engines you are interested in (not limited to the ones introduced above).

1. Find some online courses offered by Ohio State (hint: use “site:” operator, no space after colon)

2. Find tools similar to Trello (hint: use operator “related:”, no space after colon)

3. Find similar pictures of the picture below (hint: use image search)

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2. Resource Evaluation

First. read an interesting article about Why Students Can't Google Their ways to the Truth. 

(http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2016/11/02/why-students-cant-google-their-way-to.html) Then watch the

video from OSU library and finish the exercise.

Exercise (graded):

Go to DISCUSSION: Online Resource Evaluation

(https://osu.instructure.com/courses/58036/discussion_topics/751656)

 

 

 

 

 

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