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Thursday, September 27, 2012

Google internet scavenger hunt


Exploring the Google Search Engine

Directions: Use the Google Search Engines (www.google.ca) to answer the questions.  Write your answers in the spaces provided below.

  1. Enter your school’s phone number including the area code.  Write the kind of information that is returned on the hits page.



Repeat this with another (land line) phone number you know.  What do you find?


  1. Enter your postal code.  What type of information is returned?


List one benefit and one drawback to this feature.



  1. Type your full name in quotation marks (or your online screen name) into the Google web search engine.  Are you on the web?

How many hits are returned for your name?

  1. Go to www.whitepages.ca and click the “Reverse Lookup” tab.  Type your home phone number, including the area code.  What do you find?



How is this feature useful?



What does this feature mean in terms of Internet safety?



Type in a cell phone number including the area code.  What do you find?  Does a landline or a cell phone number return more information in the search?


Exploring more Google features

  1. Go to www.google.ca and type define: enigma.  What is the first definition provided?


  1. Go to www.google.ca and click on “Images.”  Type the name of your favourite actor, actress, or musical group and see what images you can find.  What websites provided the photos?



  1. Type “Rivier Academy” (including quotation marks) into the search bar and click on the first photo hit.  The website from which the picture came is displayed below.  What is the title of the website?



  1. Return to the Google homepage.  Click “Maps” and type in your complete address, including city and province.  What appears?



Google maps can be used to search foreign cities as well.  Search the Eiffel Tower.  Name one of the streets nearby.



Search the Statue of Liberty.  What is the name of the island on which the Statue is situated?



  1. Click on “News” at the top of the Google search bar.  Search “Prince Albert, Saskatchewan” and list the top 2 headlines.  How recent are the news stories?




Challenge:  “Search is so highly personal that searching is empowering for humans like nothing else.  It is the antithesis of being told or taught.  It is self-empowerment; it is empowering individuals to do what they think best with the information they want.”
–      Google CEO Eric Schmidt

Do you agree or disagree?  Support your answer.
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