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CTI110 - WEB, PROGRAMMING AND DTABASE FOUNDATIONS

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LAB 01 PRACTICE TO USE GOOGLE SEARCH

Objectives

In this lab assignment, students will learn:

- How to do a search using google search engine

- How to get search output quicker

- How to become a google guru

Goals

In this lab assignment, students will demonstrate the abilities to:

- Search using google search engine

- Get search output quicker

- Become a google guru

Instruction and Problems

Students need to open Google in another tab or window to test these out as you go along. The browser can be any (Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer, or Safari). The following is an example.

Example Problem to Solve:

Your supervisor wants you to get output of the annual enrollment of Wake Tech.

Steps to do:

Step 1: Open up a web browser

Step 2: Go to the site: http://www.google.com

Step 3: Input the key words NC largest community college

Step 4: You get the output in the following.

Please make a screenshot of each answer and paste the image in a single Microsoft Word document. Submit the file to Blackboard for credit.

Exercise 1 Search exact phrases using quotation marks e.g. an apple a day keeps the doctor away

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Exercise 2 Exclude a search termby adding a hyphen before the word, especially useful when searching a word with several meanings e.g. apple -phone -mac -technology

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Exercise 3 Find informationwithina specific website by adding site:*url* e.g.apple site: cnn.com

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Exercise 4 Find sites with similar content to a URL you already know by adding related:*url* e.g.related:cnn.com

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Exercise 5 Search for certain words in the body text of webpageswhere the one term appears in the text, and other terms appear elsewhere in the document (e.g. title or URL) using intext: e.g.carmax intext:toyota

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Exercise 6 Search for words in titlecontainingall words in the search using allintitle: e.g.allintitle: what we know about iphone 6 so far

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Exercise 7 Search for a particular file type using filetype: e.g.annual report 2016 filetype:pdf

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Exercise 8 Search for a number rangeby using two periods to see results containing numbers in the given range e.g.dslr $300..$500

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Exercise 9 Search for sentences or phrases with missing words in the middleusing an asterisk as a wildcard e.g.hey i just * you and this is *

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Exercise 10 Search strongly connected ideas and phrases using &

e.g. chip & dale

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Exercise 11 Instant weather report using weather *location*

e.g.weather raleigh

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Exercise 12 Current time using time *location* e.g.time raleigh

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Exercise 13 Stock quotes using company stock code e.g. GOOGL

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Exercise 14 Sports scores by typing in your sports teams name e.g. Miami Heat

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Exercise 15 Calculator by typing in yourarithmetic problem e.g. 108*12

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Exercise 16 Sunrise & Sunset Times by searching sunset *location* e.g.sunset raleigh

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Exercise 17 Measurement Conversions e.g. 10 miles to km

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Exercise 18 Dictionary by using define: e.g.define:muggle

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Exercise 19 Translations e.g.translate English to Chinese

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Exercise 20 Flight Statuses

e.g.AA 467

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Grading rubric for each question

Students need to save a screenshot of each exercise into a Word document and submit the file via BlackBoard. [5 points each]