Internet Research Computer Applications for Managers
Identifying and understanding web browser basics Conducting searches in the web Searching for images Understanding a variety of tools to modify and narrow searches Internet Research
Microsoft Edge Apple Safari Mozilla Firefox Google Chrome Internet Browsers
*Focus on Chrome* Arrow- previous/recent webpages (1) Refresh button- reloads webpage (2) New tab- new window in same browser (3) Address Bar- identifies current viewed page (4) Resizing and closing- change size of browser (5) Menu- dropdown menu (6) Browser Tools
Hyperlinks Section of text, image, icon linked to specific webpage, image, etc. Automatically goes to linked webpage Browser Tools Continued
Chrome: Desktop icon on taskbar Type www.google.com followed by enter Titled by hyperlink Web Searching in Chrome
Bing Desktop icon on taskbar Type www.bing.com then enter Similar to Google However, to the right are related searches Web Searching using Bing
Open Chrome Change search key words More Os in Google mean more results Bonus search tools Right arrow=new browser window (2) Next tab (3) Previous tab (4) Identifying Search Results
Open Google- enter search Different tab options All News Images Maps Videos More Opening Search Results
Operations AND Enter “marketing AND services” OR Enter “marketing OR services” More responses than AND NOT Enter “marketing NOT services” Less search results Adjusting Search Parameters
Boolean Modifier Used in search phrase to modify search results Quotation marks Less responses Asterisk When you don’t know exact wording Parentheses What is read first Adjusting Search Parameters Cont.
Enter in text on Google Click “images” Extra Images Image Category- narrow focus Additional Category- more options Safe Search- filters explicit images Search by Image- camera button Image Searches
What are the three main browsers used to access the internet? What are the basic navigation tools used in a browser? How do you perform a web search using two different search engines? Can you correctly identify the number of results from each search? How do you open the first web search engine result? Are you now able to add additional parameters to the web search? Can you identify changes in the search results? How do you perform a web search for an image? Quick Review