Internet Search Challenge

Retrieving the information you need from the Internet can be challenging. Internet Search Challenges provide practice and demonstrate techniques to improve your search results and find credible information. This blog introduces new challenges, discusses the difficulties and how they may be overcome.

Showing posts with label critical reading. Show all posts

Showing posts with label critical reading. Show all posts

Monday, August 27, 2018

Do You Skim?

Most of us skim to get the basic meaning without reading every word. This may work well when trying to spot keywords in articles or Web pa...

Friday, November 19, 2010

New Search Challenge: Slinky

It was bound to happen. Someone submitted a Search Challenge question to Answers.com and finally got a correct answer. Therefore, it's...

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

A Query for Curry

Here's a good example of what can happen when facts aren't checked adequately. It is reported that Ann Curry, news anchor for the...

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

"My Predicament (I need your help)"

First thing Saturday morning I was confronted with an appeal sent from my daughter-in-law's gmail account. Here is the full text of the...

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Whale Tale

My colleague Dennis O'Connor is spending a few days in Baja. He reports seeing whales every day. I thought I'd browse around to s...

Monday, July 20, 2009

Yes, There's a Need - Part 2

Using performance assessments to study how people search is very revealing. Several years ago, we identified five major things that students...

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