Assignment: Search the Internet

Assignment: Search the Internet

For this assignment, you will search using the Google search engine and take a screenshot of your search results screen. Follow the directions below. If you find a step that trips you up, you can review the tutorial.

Instructions

1. Open a web browser (Chrome, Firefox, or Edge) by double-clicking the icon on the desktop (or using any other method covered in Internet Browsers.)
2. Make sure the page is on the Google search page. Type in www.google.com in the address bar and press the Enter (or Return) key.
3. In the google search bar, type in a search for one of the following terms:
   • cash flow
   • company culture
   • income statement
   • business metrics

   Then hit the Enter (or Return) key.

4. Look at the search results Google returned for your search, then take a screenshot by using the following steps:
   1. Open the Snipping tool by using one of the methods discussed in the Snips and Screenshots lesson.
   2. Take a rectangular or a window snip of the search results.
   3. Save the snip as BA132_LastName_SearchInternet.png, replacing “LastName” with your own last name. (Example: BA132_Johnson_SearchInternet.png)

Check Your Understanding: Search Results

Use two different search engines to conduct the same search. Pick one of the following phrases to search:

• clothing store
• largest supermarket chain
• computer accessories store
• computers in business

Search for your chosen phrase using Google. Next, use the same phrase to search on Microsoft Bing. Once you’ve run the same search on the two different engines, compare the results. Ask yourself these questions:

• Which search engine provided the most results?
• Which search engine provided the most relevant results?
• How could you make the search return even more relevant results regardless of search engine used?