Lesson 4: Databases and Web Search Engines
Here are some exercises that will help with the content in this lesson. The first activity will help with the terminology in the lesson. The second activity, the quiz, is a set of questions for you to find the answers as you read through the lesson.
Discussions for Databases and Search Engines:
Searching the Internet has become a valuable resource tool that we can use for finding information for just about anything. Consider the following as you work through this lesson and prepare to discuss in class:
1) How often do you use search engines?
2) What search engine do you typically use? Why?
3) What information portals do you typically use?
4) What types of searches do you generally perform, keyword or directory? Do you prefer one over the other? Why or why not?
5) How many search engines and information portals are there?
Research Search Engines:
Use your text material and the Internet to reasearch and prepare to discuss the following:
What was the first search engine publically used and when? What was the first GUI search engine and when?
When did Google begin? What is the story behind Google and where did the name come from?
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