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| Posted by: Emory Schley |
2/23/2007 1:02 PM |
If you ever wonder about things like the price of rice in China, or how many drops of water are in a gallon, or how many grains of sand are on the world’s beaches, then the Internet represents a rich source of materials. It can act as a balm for a fevered, curious mind.
Knowing how to find the material you’re looking for is an important strategy in using the Internet.
If you go to www.google.com or to www.yahoo.com, or any of dozens of other Internet search engines, you truly stand at the doorway to vast, inconceivable knowledge. The trick is in knowing how to properly use the search engine, and in being able to distinguish the “chaff” from the “wheat,” when visiting your selected sites. A basic knowledge of Boolean search techniques can help you whittle down those 3,100,713 “hits” to a much more manageable number. George Boole was an Englishman who contributed greatly to modern day computers long before they were invented, by coming up with a form of algebra that embraces only two quantities at a time, as I understand it. It fits in well with the binary numbering system used by computers because binary numbers consist of only two symbols, or quantities, too.
Anyway, if you’d like your Internet searching to be more precise, go to the Internet and look up “Boolean logic” or “Boolean searches.” You may have to struggle a bit working through some of the explanations, especially if you’re weak in math, but the concepts are fairly simple, even though the mechanics can get a bit involved, but just a smattering of Boolean knowledge can pay big dividends in saved time next time you’re “Googling” that new acquaintance you recently met.
Spend a little time on the www.google.com site and you can learn of lots of neat operations Google can bring into your life! |
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Re: Just 'Googling' around... |
By Ray Cates Ocala on
2/26/2007 7:57 AM |
I love the internet, and all that great information that is always there, and always in a state of 'wave striking the shore' flux. But I also think that great encyclopedias are marvelous. It is sad that many parents have given up on books because of the internet. DON'T THEY KNOW THAT KIDS WANT THE COMPUTER FOR GAMES & SEX TALK, not to look up information for school!
Ask any kid, 'What books have you read lately, not required in school?' If they are high school age, the answer will be "None". This is what our future will become if we apply FCAT Tests to the exclusion of all else in our schools. Doesn't anyone know that art, music and bringing back inquiring minds is the reason for our schools.
Also it would be nice if schooling would involve a large dose of government. In our generation it may not be the libraries burning down because of intolerance, but indifference to learing. We are pouring our money into schools, and students love school about as well as residents of Iraq love our occupation of their country. We are teaching hatred of learning in our institutions of HIGHER SPENDING.
Learning on the computer, and in books can be fun. Education can be great, why not change our schools drastictly? Change is well needed, it is overdue, lets just do it. Now schools are not even 'googling around' they are going more and more in the ground! |
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