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Ex 2.2.6 - Searching |
| KNOWLEDGE |
 SEARCHING YOUR LOCAL SYSTEM |
Microsoft Windows has tools which allow you
to Search all storage devices accessible by your machine for files
or folders. The system allows you to set criteria for conducting
your search thus enabling faster retrieval of the required file/folder.
You can set criteria to search by:
N.B. You can include the wildcard character * in your search criteria. The Search operation can be undertaken using either Windows Explorer or My Computer. A typical Search window is shown below. |
| SEARCHING ON THE INTERNET - SEARCH ENGINES A search engine is a specialist web site that allows you to search the Internet thus locating a list of web pages/sites of interest to you. You don’t in fact search the whole Web as that is too vast. What you do is search through the search engines database of web pages – this is a summary of what are on the pages themselves. The search engine compiles this database by working through the Web and recording what is there. Different search engines generate their databases in different ways and thus searching with different engines will give different results. Searching the Web through a search engine makes your search a lot quicker as you are only searching a relatively small database compared to the whole Web. Search engines are best used if you're looking for web sites or general information rather than looking for a friend's e-mail address. Some well know search engines include: www.google.co.uk www.ask.co.uk www.yahoo.co.uk www.altavista.co.uk Using a search engine is reasonably straight forward in that you type a word or string of words into the Search box and then press Enter. |
| ONLINE PRACTICAL EXERCISE |
| Practice using the Google search engine by typing the
following searches into the search bar below and click the Search
button to display the results:
Microsoft Word Workbook |
| PRACTICE | ||
| Hence, you now need to learn about how
to "Manage Files and Directories/Folders."
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