ST. BLAISE COMMUNITY ACADEMY, INC.

Poblacion, San Luis, Batangas

EMPOWERMENT
TECHNOLOGY

Quarter 1 - Module 3
“Contextualized Online Search and
Research Skills”
 Subject Matter: Empowerment Technologies
Topic: Contextualized Online Search and Research Skills

Learning Competencies:
WHAT I NEED Apply online safety, security, ethics and etiquette
TO KNOW standards and practice in the use of ICTs as it would relate to
their specific professional tracks.
Specific Objectives:
At the end of the lesson, you should achieve the
following objectives:
At the end of the lesson, the students shall be able to:
1. Understand the basic principles of search engine and its types;
2. Figure out how research engine help in research; and
3. Use the Internet as a tool for credible research and information gathering
to best achieve specific class objectives or address situational endeavors.

WHAT I KNOW

Direction: Read each item carefully and choose the best answer.

1. When you are searching online or doing research, what do you always use?.
a. Search Engine
b. Operating System
c. Social Networking Sites
2. What made Google the most popular and trusted search engine?
a. Because of the design, it features
b. Google is using sophisticated algorithms to present the most accurate
results to the users.
c. Because of the quality of its search results.
3. What is a global computer network providing a variety of information and
communication facilities, consisting of interconnected networks using
standardized communication protocols.
a. Internet
b. Software
c. Search Engine
4. A reliable Source is __________________.
a. Biased
b. Trusted
c. Trying to sell you something

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5. Any information coming from these domain types are usually reliable
except
a. .com
b. .org
c. .edu

WHAT’S NEW

Online Search Activity

Direction: Do an online search to answer the given question using any search
engine. Provide the required data below. Write your answers on a separate
sheet of paper.

Question: When do you say that an information contained in web pages is

credible or not?

SEARCH ENGINE USED: _____________________________________________________

KEYWORDS: _______________________________________________________________
NUMBER OF SEARCH RESULTS: ______________________________________________

SITES USED TO ANSWER THE QUESTION:

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2. __________________________________________________________________
3. __________________________________________________________________

ANSWER TO THE QUESTION:

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 WHAT IS IT

-Did you type the whole question on the search box?

-Are you sure that you get your answer from reliable websites?
-Are the authors of article you get your answers from are credible?
-Are there articles listed on the search results that re irrelevant to your
question?

Being a vast sea of information is one of the key features of the internet. It is
such a big repository of data that is it believed that one could find out
anything on the internet. Developing the necessary knowledge and skills in
online searching however, is the key to maximizing its use.

On this lesson, we will learn how to evaluate website’s credibility and use
keywords to specify our search term.

SEARCH ENGINE
Is a program that searches for and identifies
items in a database that correspond to
keywords or characters specified by the user,
used especially for finding particular sites on
the World Wide Web.

TYPES OF SEARCH ENGINE

CRAWLER BASED SEARCH ENGINES

Crawlers. These types of search engines use a "spider" or a
"crawler" to search the Internet. The crawler digs through
individual web pages, pulls out keywords and then adds
the pages to the search engine's database. Google and
Yahoo are examples of crawler search engines.

Google and Yahoo are examples of crawler search engines. The advantage
of crawlers are: They contain a huge amount of pages.

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DIRECTORIES SEARCH ENGINES
Directories are human powered search engines. A
website is submitted to the directory and must be
approved for inclusion by editorial staff. Open
Directory Project and the Internet Public Library are
examples of directories. Advantages: Each page is
reviewed for relevance and content before being
included.
TWO TYPES OF DIRECTORIES:
1. ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORIES which are often
created and maintained by subject experts to support the needs of
researchers.

SOME ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL SEARCH ENGINES

EXAMPLE
ERIC (Education Resources
Google Scholar
Information Center)

Wolfram Alpha iSEEK Education

BASE (Bielefeld Academic

CORE
Search Engine)

Science.gov Semantic Scholar

2. COMMERCIAL AND PORTAL DIRECTORIES That cater to the general

public and are competing for internet traffic.

SOME ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL SEARCH ENGINES

EXAMPLE

Bing FB Pages

Instagram for Business Google My Business

LinkedIn Company Directory Yelp

Apple Maps HubSpot’s Solutions Directory

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 HYBRID SEARCH ENGINES
Uses both crawler based searches and directory
searches to obtain their results. More and more
search engines these days are moving to a hybrid-
based model.

Currently, some search engines are using both features to provide

effective results. MSN, Google and Yahoo are some examples.

META SEARCH ENGINES

A metasearch engine, otherwise

known as an aggregator, is a search
engine that sends queries to several
search engines and either aggregates
the results into one master list or
categorizes the results by the search
engines they come from.

Transmit user supplied keywords

simultaneously to several individual
search engines to carry out the
search. In this type of search engine,
duplicates can be eliminated and
clustering by subjects within search is
implemented.
Tips on Improving Search and Research Skills

Online search and research are more than just ‘googling’ – typing a
word in Google and then clicking the search button. It is a skill that every
Internet user should know to do smart searching and this starts with
improving search and research skills to get better results.
Here are the things that you need to know to improve your online
search and research skills. This will guide you to obtain the most relevant
information that you need.

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 1. USE OF KEYWORDS – Determine which keyword works best, the
recommended maximum is six to eight carefully chosen words., preferably
nouns and objects. Avoid verbs and use modifiers only when they help to
define your best object mist precisely.
2. USE OF PHRASES – The most powerful keyword is a phrase, a combination of
two or more words that must be found in the documents being searched.
3. CAPITALIZATION – When searching proper names, use capital or
uppercase to narrow the search.
4. BOOLEAN LOGIC – is a powerful search to a reasonable number of results
and increase the chance of a useful outcome. The three most commonly
used boolean commands are AND, OR, and NOT. These are used to search
for items containing both terms, either term, or a term only if not
accompanied by another term.
5. WILDCARDS AND TRUNCATION – This involves substituting symbols for certain
letters of a word so that the search engine will retrieve items with any letter
in that spot in the word. The syntax may allow a symbol in the middle of a
word (wildcard) or only at the end of the word (truncation). Example:
“wom*n” may result to “woman” and “women,” “invest*” may return
invest, investor, investors, investing, investment, investments.

WHAT’S MORE

DIRECTION: Answer the following Questions:

1. What is a search engine?

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2. How does search engine help in research?
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3. How can you effectively do a research using the internet?
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WHAT I CAN DO

DIRECTION: Explain thoroughly why the website next page is not credible as a
source of your data for your research.

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ASSESSMENT

Direction: Read each item carefully and choose the best answer.
1. What is a program that searches for and identifies items in a database that
correspond to keywords or characters specified by the user?
a. Browser
b. Google
c. Search Engine
d. Internet
2. What is a powerful search to a reasonable number of results and increase
the chance of a useful outcome?
a. Boolean Logic
b. Search Engine
c. Truncation
d. Wildcards
3. What search engine uses both crawler based searches and directory
searches to obtain their results?
a. Hybrid
b. Crawler
c. Meta
d. Directories
4. What search engines are human powered search engines?
a. Hybrid
b. Crawler
c. Meta
d. Directories
5. What search engine caters to the general public and are competing for
internet traffic?
a. Academic and Professional Directories
b. Commercial and Portal Directories
c. Political Directories
d. None of the above

WHAT I CAN SHOW

DIRECTION: Site An example where you can use your communication and critical
thinking in practicing Contextualized Online Search and Research Skills
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 REFERENCES

❑ FIDP and ATG: Empowerment Technologies

❑ SLM Modules (DepEd Region SOCKSARGEN): Empowerment Technologies
Module 3.
❑ Rosalie Lujero. Empowerment Technology pp. 36- 37
❑ https://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/10322/the-ultimate-list-50-local-
business-directories.aspx
❑ https://mclennan.libguides.com/searchingInternet/engines
❑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasearch_engine