Searching and Researching in Cyberspace

    You are the NEXT GENERATION.  New ways of using Cyberspace is happening on a continuous basis.  What can you do to compete with your rivals? 

    Your success is partly based on your ability to search the internet for research projects, interests, what's new, or what's old. 

Review the following resources:

Tutorial by Pandia: http://www.pandia.com/goalgetter/

Search engine Watch: http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2156611

Learn the Net: http://www.learnthenet.com/English/html/78tutorial.htm

Google tutorial: http://www.google.com/help/basics.html

Facts: http://www.cln.org/searching_faqs.html

Answer the following questions

1: What's an Internet search engine?

2: How does a search engine know about the millions of documents on the Internet?

3: What's an Internet subject directory?

4: What's better - a search engine or a subject directory?

5: How can I improve my use of search engines?

6: What's a wild card and how do I use it?

7: How do I narrow a search?

8: How do I widen a search?

9: How do search engines deal with boolean operators?

10: What's a "meta" search engine?

11: What are some effective search strategies?

12. What is the difference between a subject directory and search engines

13. Name at least 4 search engines