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Skills Review #1-8 #1a Defined search query #1b Described search engines #1c Explained metasearch engine #1d Described how to find information on deep web #1e Explained difference between social media search and metasearch #2a Described seven steps of an effective research strategy #2b Explained importance of search query & refining the query #3a Identified two keywords #3c Explained stop words #4b Listed total number of results for volunteer abroad search #5a Listed how many useful results #5b Listed how many useful results with summer keyword added #5c Listed how many useful results with student keyword added #5d Listed how many useful results with college keyword added #6b Answered if the number of results differed using quotation marks #7b Listed how many results were returned with volunteer search #7c Listed how many results contained keyword in URL #7d Answered questions about sponsored results #8a Defined evaluative criteria #8b Listed five things to consider when evaluating a web page #8c Listed one way to determine credibility Independent Challenge #1 a Identified topic statement b Identified key words d Identified search query f Copied and pasted screenshot of search results Skills Review #1-8 #1a Defined search query #1b Described search engines #1c Explained metasearch engine #1d Described how to find information on deep web #1e Explained difference between social media search and metasearch #2a Described seven steps of an effective research strategy #2b Explained importance of search query & refining the query #3a Identified two keywords #3c Explained stop words #4b Listed total number of results for volunteer abroad search #5a Listed how many useful results #5b Listed how many useful results with summer keyword added #5c Listed how many useful results with student keyword added #5d Listed how many useful results with college keyword added #6b Answered if the number of results differed using quotation marks #7b Listed how many results were returned with volunteer search #7c Listed how many results contained keyword in URL #7d Answered questions about sponsored results #8a Defined evaluative criteria #8b Listed five things to consider when evaluating a web page #8c Listed one way to determine credibility Independent Challenge #1 a Identified topic statement b Identified key words d Identified search query f Copied and pasted screenshot of search results

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1a)Defined search query:

The search query is the word or the string of words and figures entered in the search box of a search engine to access some information on the web. A search query can also encompasse some specific typefaces and operators (e.g.,boolean operators).

The query can be entered on a search engine website (like Google) or on an internal (on-site) search engine and can be made from multiple devices.

->A web search query is a query that a user enters into a web search engine to satisfy his or her information needs. Web search queries are distinctive in that they are often plain text or hypertext with optional search-directives (such as "and"/"or" with "-" to exclude).

1b)Described search engines:

A search engine is a web-based tool that enables users to locate information on the World Wide Web. Popular examples of search engines are Google, Yahoo!, and MSN Search. Search engines utilize automated software applications (referred to as robots, bots, or spiders) that travel along the Web, following links from page to page, site to site. The information gathered by the spiders is used to create a searchable index of the Web.

->Search engines are programs that search documents for specified keywords and returns a list of the documents where the keywords were found. A search engine is really a general class of programs, however, the term is often used to specifically describe systems like Google, Bing and Yahoo! Search that enable users to search for documents on the World Wide Web.

1 c)Explained metasearch engine:

A metasearch engine (or aggregator) is a search tool that uses another search engine's data to produce their own results from the Internet. Metasearch engines take input from a user and simultaneously send out queries to third partysearch engines for results.

-> Meta search engines don’t have a repository or index of their own, they take advantage of indices created by other search engines. In fact they present this as their strong point. A typical meta search engine pulls off the results from a number of search engines, say Google and Bing, and then apply their own algorithms in some cases to re-order the results.

Described how to find information on deep web:

Search engines such as Google index well over a trillion pages on the World Wide Web[1], but there is information on the web that common search engines don't reach. Most of this is in databases of information that need to be searched directly from the specific website. More famously (or infamously), a small pocket of the deep web is filled with hyper-secret communities who flock there to escape identification from authorities.

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While Google search is the first tool most reporters use when researching a story, there is a wealth of information in the so-called "deep web," which is not indexed by search engines like Google and Bing. Reporters can unearth this information to break stories no one else has.

Delving further, another area of the web is defined by some as the "dark Internet," impenetrable by its nature, inside secure servers that are protected for a variety of reasons (national security or military purposes), whose content is isolated and kept private from searches.

However, much of the deep web is more accessible than we think. Here, the enterprising journalist can find documents that have not been stored in an HTML structure including PDF, Excel, PPT (Power Point), Flash and extensions used by Google Earth.

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Described how to find information on deep web:

Search engines such as Google index well over a trillion pages on the World Wide Web[1], but there is information on the web that common search engines don't reach. Most of this is in databases of information that need to be searched directly from the specific website. More famously (or infamously), a small pocket of the deep web is filled with hyper-secret communities who flock there to escape identification from authorities.

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While Google search is the first tool most reporters use when researching a story, there is a wealth of information in the so-called "deep web," which is not indexed by search engines like Google and Bing. Reporters can unearth this information to break stories no one else has.

Delving further, another area of the web is defined by some as the "dark Internet," impenetrable by its nature, inside secure servers that are protected for a variety of reasons (national security or military purposes), whose content is isolated and kept private from searches.

However, much of the deep web is more accessible than we think. Here, the enterprising journalist can find documents that have not been stored in an HTML structure including PDF, Excel, PPT (Power Point), Flash and extensions used by Google Earth.

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