Empowerment

Technologies
Quarter 1 – Module 3:
Contextualized Online Search and
Research Skills
What I Need to Know

This module was designed and written to introduce to you the use of internet
as a tool for credible research and information gathering to best achieve specific class
objectives or address situation (CS_ICT11/12-ICTPT-Ia-b3).

At the end of this module, you are expected to:

1. Differentiate the results of online search using the search techniques from not
using it.
2. Adopt the use of search engine in other subjects like Mathematics for
converting of unit measurement and Art for determining image size and name.
3. Exercise the use of search techniques in researching particular information
easily.

What I Know

Select the right keyword/s in column B to search for what’s in column A.

Column A Column B

A. @Globe
1. Activities that happened last December
B. #May2016
2019.
C. #December2019
2. Laptop suited for your budget ranging
D. “sky scraper”
from $200 to $400.
E. Shoes $50
3. All information about Globe
F. Define engine
4. Information about the exact words sky
G. Time Canada
scraper
H. Site:.edu
5. Shoes with a price of $50
I. Laptop $200..$400
6. Meaning of engine
J. Filetype:pdf
7. Search for pdf files
K. @facebook senior night
8. Canada time
L. Site:.gov “public
9. Education site
administration”
10. Events on May 2016
M. Pdf file contextualized
11. Events posted by PAGASA in twitter
online search
12. Pdf files specific about contextualized
N. Filetype:pdf
online search
“contextualized online
13. Shoes with a price of $50 at Shopee
search”
website
O. @twitter pagasa
14. Senior night event posted in Facebook
P. Site:shopee.ph shoes $50
15. Information specifically about public
Q. Facebook Senior’s Night
administration in government websites
R. globe

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What’s In

Note: To do this activity, you may use laptop or smartphone that is connected

to the internet. Use web browser like Google Chrome, Internet Explorer or

Microsoft Edge. Write your answer in your notebook.

A. Follow the instructions and write your observation for each result on the space
provided.

1. Google the name of our President. Open Google, type the name Rodrigo
Duterte in the search box as shown below.

Observation: ____________________________________________________________
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2. Google your name.

Observation: ____________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________
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__________________________________________________________________________
B. If you found out all the information about yourself when you searched your
name, it only means that it is exposed to public and you are prone to internet
threats. What you will do to secure your private information and avoid internet
threats?
_____________________________________________________________________________
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Notes to the Teacher

This module aims to prepare the students to know how to use
the internet as a tool for credible research and information
gathering. It also aims to enhance the student’s research skills
through the use of Google search techniques.

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What’s New

A. Open the following search engines using either Google Chrome, Internet
Explorer or Microsoft Edge web browser.
1. Type google.com in the address bar of the web browser.

2. Type bing.com in the address bar of the web browser.

3. How does Google differ from Bing?

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B. Use Google and type in the search box the following:

1. empowerment
 Check the results. What are displayed?
2. define empowerment
 Check the results. How does it differs from the result of number
1?
3. DEFINE EMPOWERMENT
 Check the results. Does it give different results as compared to
number 2?
4. #throwbackthursday
 What did you observe in the results?
5. @twitter
 What did you observe in the results?
6. time Dubai
 What did you observe in the results?
7. camera $400
 What did you observe in the results?
8. camera $50..$100
 What did you observe in the results?
9. contextualized search
 Check the results. What are displayed?
10. “contextualized search”
 Check the results. How does it differs from the results of number
9?

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What is It

Online search is the process of interactively searching for and retrieving

requested information via a computer from databases that are online. Today,
searches through web search engines constitute the majority of online searches
(Online Search n.d.).

Search engine is a service that allows internet users to search for content via
the World Wide Web (WWW). A user enters keywords or key phrases into a search
engine and receives a list of Web content results in the form of websites, images,
videos or other online data. The list of content returned via a search engine to a user
is known as a search engine results page (SERP) (Search Engine 2019).

Here are the top three search engines (Chris n.d.)

1. Google is the best search engine worldwide. What made Google the
most popular and trusted search engine is the quality of its search
results. Google is using sophisticated algorithms to present the most
accurate results to the users. According to recent statistics, Google is
the most popular search engine with a stunning 87.35% market share.

2. Bing is the best alternative search engine to Google. Bing is Microsoft’s

attempt to challenge Google in search, but despite their efforts, they
still did not manage to convince users that their search engine can be
as reliable as Google. Bing originated from Microsoft’s previous search
engines (MSN Search, Windows Live Search, Live Search). Bing’s search
engine share is between 2.55% and 12.61%.

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3. Yahoo is one of the most popular email providers and its web search
engine holds third place in search with an average of 2% market share.

You can also add CC Search to your list of search engines.

CC Search searches across more than 300 million images from open APIs and
the Common Crawl dataset. It goes beyond simple search to aggregate results across
multiple public repositories into a single catalog, and facilitates reuse through
features like machine-generated tags and one-click attribution.

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Search engines help you to look for something on the web, but would you able
to find it, or you found something you weren’t expecting to find? Google and Bing are
continually improving their search abilities (Web Searching Skills n.d.). And you need
to improve your research skills so you’ll be able to find what you are looking for
quickly and easily. Some of the research skills are critical thinking, data collection,
finding information on or off the internet, and analysis of information from different
sources (Research Skills n.d.).

Here are the few basic search techniques to follow (Web Searching Skills n.d.)

1. Think before you search. Think about the topic or question you would like to
search. Think about how you would describe the topic and choose 3 or 4
keywords.
2. Keep it simple. Describe what you want in as few terms as possible.
3. Be specific. The more precise your search terms are, the more precise your
search results will be. Avoid general or common words.
4. Imagine how the webpage you are hoping to find will be written. Use words
that are likely to appear on that page.
5. Capitalization, punctuation and spelling don’t really matter. In most cases,
search engines will ignore capitalization and punctuation in a search and will
generally auto-correct your spelling mistakes.
6. Narrow your search results. There are several ways to help you narrow your
search results to find exactly what you’re looking for.:
 Use quotation marks to find exact phrases or names. Put a word or
phrase inside quotes.
Example: "tallest building"
 Use Boolean Operators (AND, OR, and NOT) to broaden or narrow your
search.
o AND (+ in Google) narrows the search because it requires both
terms to be in each item returned.
Example: Peanut Butter +and Jam

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o OR broadens the search because either term (or both) will be in
the returned items. (OR gives you more!)
Example: marathon OR race
o NOT (- in Google) narrows your search because it will eliminate
any results with the second term.
Example: jaguar speed -car
 Apply filters. After you search, most search engines have filters
available that will refine you search to a specific type of contact.
 Search a specific site. If you’re looking for a specific topic on a particular
website, you can use site: to limit your search results to that site.
Example: site:youtube.com or site:.gov
 Search for a specific filetype. If you know that you’re searching for a
particular type of file use filetype: to narrow your search results to a
certain type of file.
Example: filetype:ppt
 Search for a definition. If you are looking for a definition of a term, you
can use define.
Example: define communication
 Search for a time. If you are searching for a time in specific country,
use time <country>.
Example: time Dubai
 Search for social media. Put @ in front of a word to search social media.
Example: @twitter
 Search for a price. Put $ in front of a number.
Example: camera $400
 Search hashtags. Put # in front of a word.
Example: #throwbackthursday
 Search for wildcards or unknown words. Put a * in your word or phrase
where you want to leave a placeholder.
Example: "largest * in the world".
 Search within a range of numbers. Put .. between two numbers.
Example: camera $50..$100.

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What’s More

A. Find the Hidden Calculator

In your Mathematics subject, you are tasked to get the equivalent of 124
centimeters to inches, then to millimeter. Your teacher said that you can use
Google to search for it.

1. What will you type in the search box? _________________

2. Is your screen same as the figure below? _______

3. What value will you type in the box for centimeters? __________
4. What is the returned value in inches? ___________
5. What is the returned value in millimeter? ___________

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B. Photo Magic

In your Art subject, you are tasked to search for a beautiful peacock image
and identify its descriptive name, image size, and other related websites.

1. What will you type in the search box? ___________

2. Right-click on the second image as shown in the figure below and choose
Search Google for image.

3. What is the descriptive name used by the image? _______________________

4. What is the image size? ____________________
5. After getting the image size, click on the image. What is the result?
_______________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________

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What I Have Learned

When the internet was introduced, you started searching and looking for the
best answer to your questions. In doing so, you tried to “google”. Google is the
number one search ______________ today, followed by _______________, then
______________. Since Google is the popular search engine, the term “google” is used
as the colloquial term for ______________ search. It is the process of interactively
searching for and retrieving requested information via a computer from databases
that are online. In order to collect data more quickly and easily using the search
engine, it is important to follow the basic _____________ techniques. Here are some of
the techniques:

1. Think before you ____________. Think about the topic or question you
would like to search. Think about how you would describe the topic and
choose ____________ keywords.
2. Keep it ___________. Describe what you want in as few terms as possible.
3. Be specific. The more ____________ your search terms are, the more
precise your search results will be. Avoid general or common words.
4. Imagine how the webpage you are hoping to find will be written. Use
___________ that are likely to appear on that page.
5. Capitalization, punctuation and spelling don’t really matter. In most
cases, search engines will ___________ capitalization and punctuation in
a search and will generally auto-correct your spelling mistakes.
6. ___________ your search results. There are several ways to help you
narrow your search results to find exactly what you’re looking for, like
the use of ________________ such as ______ to search social media and
__________ to exclude words from your search.

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What I Can Do

Write the keyword/s to search the following through Google search engine.
1. Activities that happened last December 2019.
Keyword/s: _______________________________________________________________
2. Laptop suited for your budget ranging from $200 to $400.
Keyword/s: _______________________________________________________________
3. All information about Globe
Keyword/s: _______________________________________________________________
4. Information about the exact words sky scraper
Keyword/s: _______________________________________________________________
5. Shoes with a price of $50
Keyword/s: _______________________________________________________________
6. Meaning of engine
Keyword/s: _______________________________________________________________
7. Search for pdf files
Keyword/s: _______________________________________________________________
8. Canada time
Keyword/s: _______________________________________________________________
9. Education site
Keyword/s: _______________________________________________________________
10. Events on May 2016
Keyword/s: _______________________________________________________________

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Assessment

Select the right keyword/s in column B to search for what’s in column A.

Column A Column B
A. @Globe
1. Laptop suited for your budget ranging from
B. #May2016
$200 to $400.
C. #December2019
2. All information about Globe
D. “sky scraper”
3. Activities that happened last December
E. Shoes $50
2019.
F. Define engine
4. Shoes with a price of $50
G. Time Canada
5. Meaning of engine
H. Site:.edu
6. Search for pdf files
I. Laptop $200..$400
7. Information about the exact words sky
J. Filetype:pdf
scraper
K. @facebook senior night
8. Events posted by PAGASA in twitter
L. Site:.gov “public
9. Pdf files specific about contextualized
administration”
online search
M. Pdf file contextualized
10. Canada time
online search
11. Education site
N. Filetype:pdf
12. Events on May 2016
“contextualized online
13. Shoes with a price of $50 at Shopee website
search”
14. Information specifically about public
O. @twitter pagasa
administration in government websites
P. Site:shopee.ph shoes
15. Senior night event posted in Facebook
$50
Q. Facebook Senior’s Night
R. globe

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