This page may be useful to you at any time during your three years at Mundesley.
How to find information on the internet.
You need to learn how to use the
Main Search Engines
effectively.
Learn about the internet on this site.
A few more sites to look at.
Welcome to the Web - Mark Warner
Searching the Internet Tips from Berkeley
Searching the Internet
People have stopped counting how many pages
of
information there are on the web.
I couldn't find anything more recent than 8.1 billion pages, from 2005.
One estimate for 2007 based 0n 2004 figures - 29.6 Billion pages.
That's an awful lot of pages.
So you need a way to narrow down your searches
to
find exactly what you want.
Below are some very simple things you can
do to
help yourself find exactly what you want in any search engine.
Do the exercises that are suggested on this site and your searches
will improve in accuracy.
Things to do.
Use " " (speech marks) for particular search phrases.
Looking for "South America",
use the speech marks.
Put a + sign in front of the search word you really want to appear in your search results.
South +Africa
Put a - sign if front of things you don't want to appear in your results.
Pizza -pepperoni
pepperoni pizzas will not feature in your results.
These simple things will really help you.
Learn to use the
ADVANCED SEARCH
This is a bit like searching the online databases that we look at here.
It's just that much bigger because we're searching the internet. Unfortunately we can't use the advanced search in school so you need to talk to your parents and ask them to show you how to use it.
Another good tip is to include KS2 in your searches. This looks for sites written for Key Stage 2 children, ie you.
The BBC gives the same suggestions if you are using BBC search.
The big question?
Okay you can search for information.
But
Can you trust the information you find on the Internet?
What do you think you need to do to make sure what you're reading is correct?
