UNIT 3

CHAPTER 10

ONLINE
INFORMATION
 ONLINE INFORMATION
• There is a lot of information available for
individuals to find.

• It can be difficult to find good quality

information.

• When you find quality information, it is

important that you know how to use it
appropriately.
 INFORMATION SOURCES
• Information is available from a wide range of
sources.
• These can either be
o primary sources, which are that you have created
yourself, or
o secondary sources, which are those that have been
created by someone else.
INFORMATION SOURCES

Address Bar

Search Engine
 SEARCH ENGINES
• If you want to find information online and do not know
the address of any sites that contain that information, you
can use a search engine.
• Search engines compare the words entered by a user with
words in a database of web pages.
• They then show the user the results that are the closest
match to their original keywords.
Examples of web-based search engines are:
• Bing
• Creative commons
• Duck duck go
• Google
• Yahoo
 SEARCH ENGINES
• Keywords are the words or search terms that a
user types into a search engine in order to look for
matching information.

• When entering keywords into a search engine,

only enter the important words that you think
websites will contain.

• Keep it simple and do not add too many

keywords.
 SEARCH ENGINES
SEARCH TYPES
Search engines allow you to specify the type of
information that you are searching for.
• Images, Videos, News, ...

SEARCH TOOLS
Search tools help you to filter the results that the
search engine returns.
• Filter by Date, time, language, country, ...
 SEARCH ENGINES
SUGGESTED SITES AND AUTOFILL
• Some search engines give results using autofill as soon as you start to type
keywords into it.
• The suggested results often change as you continue to type more text, because the
additional terms allow the autofill software to narrow its search for more relevant
words or phrases.
• Similarly, other search
engines suggest sites
that users might be
interested in visiting.
• These suggested sites
can be based on
popular searches
made by other users
or your own browsing
history.
 SEARCH ENGINES
SUGGESTED SITES AND AUTOFILL
• Some browsers also allow you to choose a search engine so that you can type
keywords directly into the browser’s address bar.
 SEARCH ENGINES
SEARCH SYNTAX
• Syntax is the rules that dictate how words and phrases are in
languages.
• You can use special characters in searches.
• This will make the search engine give you more results.
• AND (+) : Adding + between words will return only results that
match both words.
• NOT (-) : Adding - before a word will return only results that do
not include that word.
• PHRASE MATCHING ("") : Placing speech marks around a group
of words will return only results that include the whole phrase with
the words in that specific order.
 FITNESS FOR PURPOSE
You need to decide whether it is suitable or good enough for the purpose for which
you are planning to use it.
FITNESS FOR PURPOSE
 COPYRIGHT
• If you use information, you should ensure that you have
permission to do so.
• Some information will require you to state the owner or
source of the information if you choose to use it.
 PLAGIARISM
• The internet has made information easily available to
many people.
• This means that it is becoming more common for people
to copy and paste information, sometimes without even
checking that it is suitable or true.
• Sometimes, they may even claim that this information is
their own.
• This is known as plagiarism.

• If you use another person's work

but fail to state that it is theirs,
you are violating their rights and
committing plagiarism.
 PLAGIARISM
• If you do plagiarism in your assignments for school, you
will be punished.
• One way to avoid plagiarism is to rewrite or paraphrase
information.
• When you do this, it shows that you can find information,
understand its meaning and then express it in your own
words.
• You should also state where the original information came
from.
• If you found the information online, include the URL, the
author's name (if it is available) and the date on which you
found the information.
CHAPTER QUESTIONS