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.

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Thursday, March 1, 2012

Search Challenge 002

A very popular search challenge is the Kermit Challenge. I'd rate this a novice challenge and a good one to introduce elementary lev...

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...

Monday, January 4, 2010

Take Another Step

Information can be misleading. This is why it's a good practice, once you've found potentially useful information, to take at le...

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Relevance: An Easy Search, Unpacked

I don't speak Spanish, but can usually figure out the meaning of traveler's information printed in a couple of languages. My insuff...

Monday, September 21, 2009

Revisiting "as is" Keywords

Having revisited the fundamentals for turning a question into a query in the last post, the next question naturally is: of the concepts I sh...

Saturday, February 28, 2009

Snippets: Another key to searching

While federated searching brings together a broader field of information for single-point searching, there's nothing especially intelli...

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