To complete your mission you will use this page as your guide. All of the questions this page refers to can be found on this answer sheet which you should print off before you begin. This sheet will be turned in to your instructor for evaluation.
How do you find information on the web? There are many sources you can use. Think of these sources as the "Yellow Pages" of the World Wide Web. The computer network (CNET) reviewed several of these sources. To begin your tutorial, you will explore their online reviews.
Go to CNET's Search Engine Shootout and read the introduction.
Answer Question #1
CNET reviewed seven search engines. Click on Altavista and read their review.
Click on Excite and read their review.
Click on HotBot and read their review.
Click on Infoseek and read their review.
Click on Lycos and read their review.
Click on Northern Light and read their review.
Click on Guide to Metasearches.
Now let's explore searching some of these resources. Yahoo is and example of a web directory. Go to Yahoo now and look at the main categories.
Now click on the Entertainment category and look at the sub-categories. Click on Humor, Jokes, and Fun.
Notice the search box on the Yahoo pages. If you click on the arrow, you will notice that you can search all
Now let's go to Lycos.
To conduct a simple search, simply type in the word or phrase that you
wish to find information about. In the dialog box, type in st. louis
cardinals.
Now do a new search for "st. louis cardinals".
By putting the words is quotes, it only looks for pages that contain those three words as a phrase. Without the quotes, it is finding all of the pages that contain the words St., Louis, and Cardinals.
Say you want to find out the Cardinals' schedule. Type in St. Louis Cardinals Schedule. How many results do you get? Now type in "St. Louis Cardinals Schedule". How many results do you get?
Maybe you just want the 2001 schedule. Look at the bottom of the page. Notice you can do a new search at the bottom, or you can search within the results you just found. Type in "2001 schedule" and select "search within results". Did you find what you were looking for?
Try exploring some of the other search engines CNET reviewed.
Yahoo! |
AltaVista |
Infoseek |
Metasearch |
Excite! |
MetaCrawler |
WebCrawler |
HotBot |