General Information about Search Engines: The Internet has a lot of information at millions of places (sites) all over the world on every subject you can imagine. Your problem as an Internet user is finding that information. Luckily, there is an easy way to find information. All Internet users can use search engines. Search engines are tools to find information on the Internet. Search engines are just other sites that help us find information. These sites have addresses just like any other sites. The address always starts with http://www... The rest of the address depends on where you want to go.
Different Types of Search Engines: There are many types of search engines. It is probably better to start with a general and well known search engine like Yahoo. Yahoo has many categories and sub-categories. Go to Yahoo and complete the first question.
Question One:
What are the 14 main categories on the Yahoo Main
Page?
1.______________________ 2. ___________________________
3.______________________ 4. ___________________________
5.______________________ 6. ___________________________
7.______________________ 8. ___________________________
9.______________________ 10. __________________________
11._____________________ 12. __________________________
13._____________________ 14. __________________________
Question Two:
What are the main sub-categories of the Regional Category?
1.______________________ 2. ___________________________
3.______________________ 4. ___________________________
5.______________________
Question Three:
What kind of information can you find about your country if you follow the link
for countries?
______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
Go to searching Activity One - Beginning ESL Treasure Hunt
Return to the Search Index Page
Return to ESL Student
Activities Return to the ESL Main Home Page