At the end of the module, the students

must be able to:

a. identify the various search engines,
b. differentiate various search engines,
and
c. use search engines to conduct a
guided search on a given topic.
 ELECTRONIC
SEARCH ENGINE
 What is an Electronic
Search Engine?

 A web search engine is a software

system that is designed to search for
information on the World Wide Web.
 What is an Electronic
Search Engine?

 It uses keywords to search for

documents that relate to these key words
and then puts the result in the order of
relevance to the topic that was searched for.
 Importance of Search
Engine

Search engines are important because

with over 8 billion web pages available, it
would be possible to search for the
information that is specifically needed.
 Importance of Search
Engine

This is why search engines are used to

filter the information that is on the internet
and transform it into results that each
individual can easily access and use within
the matter of seconds.
TYPES OF SEARCH
ENGINES
GOOGLE

 Google was
founded by
Larry Page and
Sergey Brin.
 GOOGLE
 The homepage of
Google has a button
labeled as “I’m feeling
lucky.” When a user
types in a search and
clicks on the button, the
user is directly taken to
the first search result.
 GOOGLE
 Google has various
special features which
include weather, unit
conversion, currency
conversion, time,
calculator, maps, etc.
 YAHOO
 Yahoo was
founded by
David Filo and
Jerry Yang.
 YAHOO
 Yahoo operates a portal
that provides the latest
news, entertainment, and
sports information. The
portals also give users
access to other Yahoo
services like Yahoo Mail,
Yahoo Maps, Yahoo
Finance, Yahoo Groups,
and Yahoo Messenger.
 ASK.COM
 Ask.com is a search
engine that was started in
1996. This website helps
people find web pages that
they are looking for, by
typing in the subject they
want. For example, if
someone is looking for
web pages about dogs, they
would type in "dogs" or
"dog" then press the
'search' button.
 BING
 Bing is a search
engine created and
operated by Microsoft,
replacing its former
Live Search, Windows
Live Search, and MSN
Search offerings.
 BING
 Microsoft CEO
Steve Ballmer
revealed the search
engine in May 2009.
Bing was fully
operational in June
2009.
 BING
 Bing takes into
account more than
1,000 signals to
order websites on
search engine result
pages (SERP).