Celeste Chow

    The internet is a way that information can be transmitted to others.  WWW is a website that you can view through the internet.  When searching the internet the search engine sends out a spider into the web and searches for all pages for the key words you are looking for.  Than it brings back information to you.  All search engines are different and some have bigger indexes than others.  Also, some webpages are available while others are not because they are not searchable by the search engine.  There are different tricks for searching the web such as truncation, phrase searching, boolean operators, search limits, and  special search characters.  Phrase searching allows you to find two or more words together.  Truncation allows you to search for many different variations of a single word at the same time.  Boolean Operators allow you to combine search terms in a lot of ways so your search is more accurate.  Special search characters is when you use different symbols on the keyboard to narrow your search.  While searching the web think about various questions such as who cares about or is interested in the topic that you are searching.  Once you find a site search for a site like the one you found because anyone can post information on the internet.  Some sites are misleading or have false information.  When you find a site look at who created the site, what's the domain of the site, and if they have any proof of if the information is true or not.  Books go out of date quickly, but the information on the web is not always accurate, which is why when your searching the web you need to be very careful.