Today's assignment will focus on how to construct queries, that is, the search terms that are entered in the search box and that are sent to the search engine.
Suppose you had to write a paper for your Biology class on possibilities for life existing on other planets. Working in pairs, your task is to identify four good sources to help you in the assignment. In order to do so, you need to construct successive queries that build upon what is found out in previous searches to better approximate the answers needed.
Your assignment should include:
- A description of how you constructed/refined your successive queries, how the first searches were used to approximate the answers.
- An analysis of why/how the search engine responded to your search terms, relevancy of the sites returned, a comparison of the efficiency of each query.
- The URLs of the sources.
- If you were the instructor of the class and had to give advice to your students on performing the search, without mentioning specific web sites, what would you tell them on how to build the query?
Assignments should be posted on your blogs before the end of the lesson.
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