Empowerment Technologies

1. Prepared by: Mark Jhon C. Oxillo

2.  is the process of
interactively searching
for and retrieving
requested information
via a computer from
databases that are
online.

3.  Have a question in mind.
 Narrow it down.
 Advanced search.
 Look for credible sources.
 Give credit.

4.  is a software system that is
designed to search for
information on the World
Wide Web. The search results
are generally presented in a
line of results often referred
to as search engine results
pages.

5.  Google
 Bing
 Yahoo
 Baidu
 Ask.com
 Yandex
 DuckDuckGo
 ChaCha.com

13.  + - allows you to include
terms that are usually ignored
 “ ” – finds the exact words
in a phrase
 ( ) – Finds or excludes web
pages that contain a group of
words

14.  AND or & - Finds web
pages that contains all the
terms or phrases
 NOT or – - Excludes web
pages that contain a term or
phrase
 OR or | - Finds web pages
that contain either or the
term or phrases

15.  site:website.com - provide
results from a specific
website
 * (asterisk) - if you do not
know the exact terms
 related:website.com –
provides related websites

16.  terms such as “square root of
1000” (as calculator)
 terms such as “5 inch to cm”
(as converter)
 “Weather in Manila” (as
weather forecaster)
 “Current time in Davao City”
(as timekeeper)