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Web Wise: How to Do an Online Search

In order to find information on the Internet, you need to know how to do an online search. Let's suppose you want to find out about the electric light and its inventor. To do so, follow these steps.

1. Print out this Web page to use as a guide.
2. Go to the Yahooligans! Web guide. This Web guide helps you find information even if you don't know the address of a website where it can be found.
3. Once you get to the Yahooligans! home page, locate the search window to the left of the Search button.
4. Type the following words as search terms: electric , light, and inventor. Then press Return or click Search.
5. Now it's time to choose a site from among your search results — the list of sites containing your search terms. Click one of the hotlinks for "Thomas Alva Edison National Historic Site."
6. On the first menu in the Edison National Historic Site home page, click Education. On the Education page, click Edison's Top Three Inventions. Then click The Electric Light to read about this invention.
7. Return to Web Wise: How to Do an online Search by clicking the Back button on the browser toolbar six times.

    

Now find out how Web Wise you are. Take a quick check.

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