What is a search engine?
A search engine is an online service that helps you find
other webpages and information on other webpages on the World Wide Web. Which of the following webpages have search engines?
http://www.google.com
http://www.yahoo.com
http://www.directory.com
http://www.ask.com
In this class, I recommend google.com. Why?
Google can find information very quickly.
It searches more webpages than most other search engines.
It
has a spellcheck. If you spell something wrongly, Google wioll guess what you want to know!
Google has a cache system
which will highlight your key words.
Remember think very clearly about your keywords!! It will speed up your search.
Task:
Today we are going to use Google to find some answers to some questions.
1) When is David Beckham's birthday?
2)
What are his two sons called?
3) Who won the Academy Award for best actress this year at the Oscars?
4) What was her
first movie called?
5) Which country won the men's 4x100 meters relay at the Olympics this year?
6) How many other
gold medals did that country get?
7) Who was the tallest man ever in the world?
8) How old was he when he died?
9)
What is the capital city of Peru?
10) Name one famous tourist attraction in Peru.
11) Which movie sold the most tickets
at the box office in the US this weekend?
12) Name two actors whose voices were in this movie.
13) Find a picture
of a dalek. What is a dalek?
14) Which British TV series were daleks in? Have you ever seen it?
Now make three
questions for your classmates to find the answers to. Post your questions on the discussion board. Answer some other questions your classmates post. Post your answers in reply to the questions.
If you have any time
over, play the games by clicking the links on the right side of the homepage.