Internet Research

1. Internet Research
Computer Applications for
Managers

2. • Identifying and understanding web browser basics
• Conducting searches in the web
• Searching for images
• Understanding a variety of tools to modify and narrow searches
Internet Research

3. Microsoft Edge
Apple Safari
Mozilla Firefox
Google Chrome
Internet Browsers

4. • *Focus on Chrome*
• Arrow- previous/recent webpages (1)
• Refresh button- reloads webpage (2)
• New tab- new window in same browser (3)
• Address Bar- identifies current viewed page (4)
• Resizing and closing- change size of browser (5)
• Menu- dropdown menu (6)
Browser Tools

5. • Hyperlinks
• Section of text, image, icon linked to specific webpage, image, etc.
• Automatically goes to linked webpage
Browser Tools Continued

6. • Chrome:
• Desktop icon on taskbar
• Type www.google.com followed by enter
• Titled by hyperlink
Web Searching in Chrome

7. • Bing
• Desktop icon on taskbar
• Type www.bing.com then enter
• Similar to Google
• However, to the right are related searches
Web Searching using Bing

8. • Open Chrome
• Change search key words
• More Os in Google mean more results
• Bonus search tools
• Right arrow=new browser window (2)
• Next tab (3)
• Previous tab (4)
Identifying Search Results

9. • Open Google- enter search
• Different tab options
• All
• News
• Images
• Maps
• Videos
• More
Opening Search Results

10. • Operations
• AND
• Enter “marketing AND services”
• OR
• Enter “marketing OR services”
• More responses than AND
• NOT
• Enter “marketing NOT services”
• Less search results
Adjusting Search Parameters

11. • Boolean Modifier
• Used in search phrase to modify search results
• Quotation marks
• Less responses
• Asterisk
• When you don’t know exact wording
• Parentheses
• What is read first
Adjusting Search Parameters Cont.

12. • Enter in text on Google
• Click “images”
• Extra Images
• Image Category- narrow focus
• Additional Category- more options
• Safe Search- filters explicit images
• Search by Image- camera button
Image Searches

13. • What are the three main browsers used to access the internet?
• What are the basic navigation tools used in a browser?
• How do you perform a web search using two different search
engines?
• Can you correctly identify the number of results from each
search?
• How do you open the first web search engine result?
• Are you now able to add additional parameters to the web
search?
• Can you identify changes in the search results?
• How do you perform a web search for an image?
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