TEFL CLASS March 24th, 2014

1. Please list THREE search engines your group members use more frequently. Compare the three search engines and choose your favorite one and explain why this one is the best.

Google, Yahoo, and MSN.

Google : Google possesses one of the most globally recognized brands in the world, and brand loyalty is strong

Yahoo : A large, unique search engine database

MSN : MSN is more spesific than another search engine

For us, the best search engine is google. Why? it's because Google is more popular and easy to access and with one click we can find so many reference.

2. What difference does it make when you enter keywords or phrases in quotes (e.g., "computer assisted language learning") in your web search?

Google doesn't use such a keyword in quotes, so we think it doesn't work if we use such a thing in google engine.

3. If you put the word "OR" between words/phrases in your web search, what does it mean?

Google usually show more reference through the content. 4. You can also use these signs " + ", " - ", and " ~ " in your web search. What function does each sign have? Please give examples. (Be sure to include a space before a sign, but no space after a sign. e.g., movie -video)

If we use (+) before the word, the search engine will show a specific content about the keywords, if we use (~) then the search engine will show a reference that related to the keywords, if we use (-) it'll not show anything.

5. There are different domain types in websites' URLs. What do these domain types mean? .com .edu .gov .org .net .mil

.com = Computer output on microfilm or microfiche

.edu = Top level domain for education

.gov = Top level domain for governments

.org = Top level domain for non-profit organizations

.net = for network infrastructure

.mil = Top level domain for the military

6. If you want to find images or sound files on the Web, what should you do?

We'll put a keywords such as .mp3 or .mp4 after the first keyword (usually it's the title) and if we want to search for images, then we'll click 'google images' and put the keywords there.

7. In addition to providing easy access to billions of web pages, many search engines also provide a number of special features to help people find what they want more efficiently. Please find what special features those search engines have and choose THREE features that you like the most each engine offers.

Google special features = Google images, google scholar, and google map

Yahoo = yahoomail, yahoo messenger and yahoo answer

MSN = bing, outlook and skype

8. What web search problems have you encountered before? Please share some with your group members and see if you can find solutions now. Each group needs to report at least two common problems and your solutions (if you have found them).

- the website doesn't exist anymore and we found a warning such as '404 not found'

- sometimes our country can't access some website, so it won't show up

Solution : We will look up to another reference.

By : Alvina and Melody