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ENGLISH
Quarter 2 – Module 2:
Use a Search Engine to Conduct a Guided
Search on a Given Topic

Self-Learning Module
Self-Learning Module
English – Grade 7
Self-Learning Module
Quarter 2 – Module 2: Use a Search Engine to Conduct a Guided
Search on a Given Topic, First Edition, 2021

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Regional Director: SALUSTIANO T. JIMENEZ, EDD, JD, CESO V OIC Asst.
Regional Director: CRISTITO A. ECO

Development Team of the Module

Writer: Mylene M. Ebarita

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Reviewers: Ephraim L. Praa, Rea T. Cabello, Rhea Kris S. Torreon,
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 FOREWORD

A web search engine or Internet search engine is

a software system that is designed to carry out web
search (Internet search), which means to search the World Wide
Web in a systematic way for particular information specified in a
textual web search query. The search results are generally
presented in a line of results, often referred to as search engine
results pages (SERPs). The information may be a mix of links
to web pages, images, videos, infographics, articles, research
papers, and other types of files. Some search engines also mine
data available in databases or open directories. Unlike web
directories, which are maintained only by human editors, search
engines also maintain real-time information by running
an algorithm on a web crawler. Internet content that is not capable
of being searched by a web search engine is generally described as
the deep web.

This (SLM) Self Learning Module is a learning resource based

on the Most Essential Learning Competencies prepared by the
Department of Education. Its main objective is to help the Filipino
high school learners develop their skills in using varied search
engine and to be globally competitive on the use of multimedia.

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 OBJECTIVES

a. identify the name of the logo of the given search engine;

b. distinguish the use of each search engine;
c. infer the purpose of the search engine;
d. use a search engine to conduct a guided search on a given topic.

LEARNING COMPETENCY:
Use a search engine to conduct a guided search on a given topic
(EN7SS-II-c-1.5.3)

WHAT HAPPENED?

Search Engine Result Page (SERP)

When a researcher types a keyword query then the
search engine displays a page called Search Engine Result
Page (SERP). SERP is a listing of results in response to a
keyword query by a researcher. These results are of two types:
first type is organic results and the second is sponsored
results. Organic results are retrieved by the search engine’s
algorithm and sponsored are advertisements. The results are
ranked on a search engine according to the queries. For
organic results, each result has a title of post or article,
permalink, and short summary (description) on the SERP
while in sponsored results, the advertiser makes decision and
chooses what to display on SERP.

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 WHAT I NEED TO
KNOW?

Search Engine
A program (software system) or a web-based
tool that is used to search the documents
(information) by using the keywords on World Wide
Web (www) is called search engine. World Wide
Web is full of information. Today, there are
thousands of search engines with different abilities
and powerful features. Google, Yahoo, Bing, MSN
and Ask.com are the popular search engines.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine?fbcl
id=IwAR0X6xxO6w53rVRJvvAqzosYtsE9dhed34kmS6pxR
TNlNQmrfPejnQ78N34

Google has become so powerful and well-known search engine

now a day. First text-based search engine was Veronica.
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 Let us have a review!

Identify the name of the following search engine.

1. ______________________________________________________________

2. __________________________________________________________

3. _________________________________________________________

4. ___________________________________________________

5. ___________________________________________________

6. ____________________________________________________

7. _________________________________________________

8. ___________________________________________________

9. _______________________________________________

10. ____________________________________________________

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 This is Good to Know!
Pretest

How Search Engine Works?

Internet search engines are special sites that are designed

to help the people to find information stored on other websites.
Crawling, indexing, and ranking are the steps of search engine.

Crawling

Each search engine on the internet has its own spiders

that go to different websites to discover the new URLs and
different contents. Search engines have special and advance
program for the crawling process. Web crawlers are the
computer programs that scan and reading the websites. They
also called spiders, bots, and automatic indexers.

When a new web page is found, the spider reads the content and images. First Spiders go
to the website and look at the robots.txt file (used for crawling restrictions by the webmasters). After
http://www.tipsandarticles.com/what-is-search-engine-how-it-
crawling the URLs, they generate a copy of each page of the website and then pass it to the index.
works/
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Indexing

Index is the sets of data base that contain millions of pages

on search. Index is the big list of web pages and words. Indexed
data is stored in encoded format to save the space. When a user
types a query on search bar of a search engine, the search engine
goes to its index library to fetch the required information for
display. The search engine finds millions of information in library
on SERP (Search Engine Result Page). Regularly updated websites
with unique and genuine contents are given better position on
SERP.

Ranking

The last step of search engine is ranking. Each search engine

has its own ranking algorithm to rank the webpages of a website
based on keywords. Search engines regularly update their
algorithms.

List of Top 10 Search Engines in the World:

1. Google (google.com)

Google LLC is an American multinational technology

company that specializes in Internet-related services and
products, which include online advertising technologies, a search
engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Wikipedia
Founders: Larry Page, Sergey Brin Trending
Founded: 4 September 1998, Menlo Park, California, United
States

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2. Bing

Bing is a web search engine owned and operated by Microsoft.

The service has its origins in Microsoft's previous search engines:
MSN Search, Windows Live Search and later Live Search. Bing
provides a variety of search services, including web, video, image,
and map search products. Wikipedia
Date launched: 3 June 2009
Available in: 40 languages

3. Yahoo

Yahoo! is an American web services provider headquartered

in Sunnyvale, California, and owned by Verizon Media. The original
Yahoo! company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in
January 1994 and was incorporated on March 2, 1995. Yahoo was
one of the pioneers of the early Internet era in the 1990s. Wikipedia
Founded: January 1994, Sunnyvale, California, United States
Headquarters: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Founders: Jerry Yang, David Filo

4. Baidu

Baidu, Inc. is a Chinese multinational technology company

specializing in Internet-related services and products and artificial
intelligence, headquartered in Beijing's Haidian District. It is one
of the largest AI and internet companies in the world. Wikipedia
CEO: Robin Li (Jan 2004–)
Founded: 1 January 2000, Beijing, China

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5. Ask.com

Ask.com is the #1 question answering service that delivers

the best answers from the web and real people - all in one place.
Date launched: 1996
Owner: Ask.com

6. AOL.com

AOL is an American web portal and online service provider

based in New York City. It is a brand marketed by Verizon Media.
The service traces its history to an online service known as
PlayNET, which hosted multi-player games for the Commodore
64. Wikipedia
Founded: 24 May 1985, United States
Headquarters: New York, New York, United States
Founders: Steve Case, Jim Kimsey, William von Meister, Marc
Seriff

7. Excite

Excite is a web portal launched in 1995 that provides a

variety of content including news and weather, a metasearch
engine, a web-based email, instant messaging, stock quotes, and
a customizable user homepage. It is currently operated by IAC
Applications of IAC and Excite Networks. Wikipedia
Founder: Joe Kraus
Founded: 1994

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8. DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo is an internet search engine that emphasizes

protecting searchers' privacy and avoiding the filter bubble of
personalized search results. DuckDuckGo distinguishes itself from
other search engines by not profiling its users and by showing all
users the same search results for a given search term. Wikipedia
Founder: Gabriel Weinberg
Founded: 2008
Headquarters: Paoli, Pennsylvania, United States

9. WolframAlpha

Wolfram|Alpha is a computational knowledge engine or answer

engine developed by Wolfram|Alpha LLC, a subsidiary of Wolfram
Research. Wikipedia
Written in: Wolfram Language
Date launched: 15 May 2009
Owner: Wolfram Research

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10. ChaCha.com

ChaCha was a human-guided search engine. It provided free,

real-time answers to any question, through its website, or by using
one of the company's mobile apps. The company, founded in 2006
by Scott A. Jones and Brad Bostic, was based in Carmel, Indiana,
United States, part of the Indianapolis metropolitan
area. Wikipedia
CEO: Scott A. Jones (2005–)
Founded: December 2005, Carmel, Indiana, United States
Headquarters: Carmel, Indiana, United States

https://www.bing.com/search?q=List+of+Top+10+Search+Engin
es+in+the+World%3A&pc=COS2&ptag=D012020-
N0490A44D3B0F12A&form=CONBDF&conlogo=CT3335798

Our classmates
need our help.
Let’s help
them.

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 LET’S DO IT!

a. Aol.com b. Ask.com c. Baidu

d. Bing e. ChaCha.com f. DuckDuckGo
g. Excite h. Goggle i. WolframAlpha
j. Yahoo

A. Choose the best answer from the box above.

Write the letter of your answer beside each number.

_____ 1. Our teacher sent a very important activity sheet in our

emails but our classmate Anton needs our help, which
search engine he should use?
_____ 2. Our Araling Panlipunan teacher said we need to read the
news for a day, so which search engine can we suggest
to our classmates?
_____ 3. I wish I could share insights about corona virus like
videos, images and even map on where it really started.
Which search engine can I share to our classmates?
_____ 4. One of our classmates, Maria opened a lot of searches
engines already, so she wanted to protect her privacy to
avoid filter bubble of personalized search results. Which
search engine does you think we can advice her?
______ 5. In our computer subject, our teacher talked about
internet-related services. Mark asked us to help him
on what search engine he should use to enhance his
knowledge on it?
_____ 6. Sherly has a lot of questions in her mind, we need to
help her on what search engine she should use that
delivers the best answers from a real people.

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 Let’s do research!

B. Do an internet search on the following topics.

Topic Search Engine Used Answer

1. Who wrote the
first opera?
2. What is utopia?
3. What was the
first bank in
the Philippines?
4. What is the
smallest fish in
the world?
5. What is the
highest mountain
in the
Philippines?
6. Where can we
find the largest
tree in the
world?
7. Who invented the
fluorescent?
8. What is the
biggest food
chain in the
Philippines?
9. What is a
Microsoft?
10. What is a storm
surge?

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Synopsis

This Self Learning Kit or SLK is an innovative Supplementary

Learning Resource (SLR) originally made, produce, modified, or
contextualized by a teacher to meet the standards of the K-to-12
Curriculum in providing our fellow teachers and learners’ relevant
and localized content.

It is a simplified and modularized form of learning material

which consist of systematic sequenced materials for learning. The
teaching-learning module in a vast variety of subjects was proven
effective as an instructional tool. This is an innovation in the
education of the new generation of users who are described as self-
directed learners.

About the Author

Mylene M. Ebarita is a secondary public-school teacher graduated

with a bachelor’s degree in Secondary Education major in English
at Cebu Normal University in 1999 and took her master’s degree
in teaching English as a Second Language in the same university.
Presently, a Master Teacher I and the Guidance Designate of
Mandaue City School for the Arts.

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me&ie=UTF-8&safe=high.

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Answer Key
Let’s have a review!
1. Goggle 6. Bing
2. Yahoo 7. DuckDuckGo
3. Ask.com 8. Baidu
4. ChaCha.com 9. WolframAlpha
5. Excite 10. Aol.com
Let’s Do It!
A. B.
1. j Answers may vary.
2. g
3. d
4. f
5. c
6. a
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