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Contextualized online searchand Research skills

Chapter 1

the web and search engines

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WEB

The Web is an information system that enables information sharing over the Internet through user-friendly ways meant to appeal to users beyond IT specialists and hobbyists.

Search engines are software systems designed to search for information on the World Wide Web. An example of this is Google; the most known and used search engine in the world.

Search engines

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Google SearchIs the most-visited website in the world and is the most searched and used search engine in the entire world.

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Alta Vista One of the most-used early search engines, but lost ground to Google and was purchased by Yahoo!

BINGSearch engine developed by Microsoft. And Is the second most popular search engine in the world.

Ask JeevesRenamed to Ask. It began as a question-and-answer website.

search engines

ways to get more accurate results when searching

The keywords are required to be clear and specific.Ex. Instead of What food does Tyson like the best use Favorite. What is Tyson’s favorite food

ways to get more accurate searches

Simplify the sentence.Ex. From What is Tyson’s favorite food. To Tyson’s favorite food.

ways to get more accurate searches

Use supportive keywordsEx. Add Percy Jackson Tyson’s favorite food Percy Jackson

ways to get more accurate searches

tips and tricks when searching

If you are searching for exact phrases use “quotation marks”.Ex. “Did you put your name in the Goblet of Fire, Harry?”

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Add a dash before a word to exclude a search term. This is useful if you are searching for a word with multiple meanings.Ex. Transformers -movie

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To search within a site use “site:”Ex. Big yellow corns site:cornhub.com

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Find pages where all the terms appear in the text using “allintext:”Ex: allintext:Jumbo Hotdog 69420

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Find pages where the one term appears in the text, and the other terms appear elsewhere in the document using “intext:”Ex: Axl Rose intext:Sweet Child O’ Mine

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Find pages whose title contains all words in the search using “allintitle:”Ex. allintitle:They hit the second tower

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Find pages whose title contains a particular words in the title (with the other words appearing somewhere else in the document) using “intitle:”Ex: Fat Rabbit intitle:Big Chungus

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Find pages with the search query mentioned in the url using “allinurl:”Ex: allinurl:not a scam

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Use “location:” on Google News to find stories coming from a particular location.Ex: Jarius Anthony C. Bolivar location:Ormoc,Philippines

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Google will restrict results to pages that end in suffix using “filetype:”Ex: methamphetamine filetype:html

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Separate numbers by two periods to see results that contain numbers in the given range. “..”Ex: Marijuana ₱1000..₱2000

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An asterisk works as a wildcard and helps you find the missing words in a phrase. *Ex: Never * * you up, Never gonna * you *

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If you want to find pages with one of several words, use a capitalized OR. Without OR, results would show pages that include all the terms.Ex: Olympics 2012 OR 2016

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Chapter 2

web tools

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Tools for verifying and accessing the validity of social media and user-generated content.

Fact-Checking Websites

List of Fact-Checking Websites

Fastcheck.org

Nonpartisan, nonprofit ‘consumer advocate’ for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. Politics.Its main focus is politics but it covers a broad range of web content.

A verification tool designed to help curate user-generated content during breaking news and connect journalists to citizen sources on the ground.

checkdesk

full fact finder

Is a U.K.-based site that covers information on the economy, health crime and the law, immigration, and education.Offers general background information, as well as details on the data available.

This is a real-time rumor tracker.An example of this is when It checked whether a man was wanted in England for slapping people who sneezed in public. And a claim that the first death related to genetically modified food was confirmed by doctors.

emergent info

churnalism

Based on a U.K. site and compares articles to a database of press releases.

An inbox extension that recognizes emails full of political myths, urban legends, or security threats and debunks them in your mail program.

lazy truth

is twitter wrong

Is a Tumblr and Twitter account simply dedicated to debunking false information.

fact correction tools

mediabugs

A service for reporting specific, correctable errors, and problems in media coverage. “We'll provide a neutral, civil, moderated discussion space,” they state, “We’ll try to alert the journalists or news organization involved about your report and bring them into a conversation.

A tool that automates the process of notifying anyone who retweeted an inaccurate tweet from your account; the goal is to help slow the spread of misinformation by making it easier to correct tweets.

retwact

report an error allience

This is an ad-hoc group of individuals and organizations who endorse the idea that websites should always have an easy-to-find and -use “report an error” button. It’s a way of saying to users that you care about accuracy, you want to know when you make errors, and you’re conscientious about finding them.

image tools

A reverse-image search engine, TinEye allows you to find out where an image came from, how it is being used, if modified versions exist, or to find higher-resolution versions. TinEye is the first image search engine to use image-identification technology rather than keywords, metadata or watermarks.

tin eye

google images

With Google Images’ “Search by Image” option, you can upload an image and Google will show you any images that resemble it, It is a quick way to easily track down original source images, or spot modifications and edits to an image.

FourMatch is an extension for Adobe Photoshop CS5 and above that analyzes JPEG images to determine whether they have been modified from their original capture by a camera or mobile device. As of April 2015, the service has been discontinued and one called Izitru was recommended.

fourMATCH

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