Searching the Web (pages 130-151)

Video and Social Media Search: - Video media has become extremely popular as more people use the internet. Its a great way to watch videos on breaking news, politics, entertainment, and sports. Many different types of search engines on the internet use videos like Yahoo, Google, Bing, and Ask Jeeves. Specialized search engines and advanced search engines give users the ability to find videos by duration, date, and quality. Google is the most common search engine its very simple to use. In the image below it shows many different ways to locate videos your interest in and how to find other videos about the topic.

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- Internet users are interested in social media. Social media aggregators are knows as search engines that focus on social media resources. Thanks to Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr people are more connected then ever. By having a social media aggregator it focus on users having the ability to easily keep up on streams from any type of social networking site.

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Cited Web Sources: In many high schools, colleges and universities then begin teaching there students how to use the MLA format. When writing a paper it is the student responsibility to follow to format of finding the copyright information on a web site and site your online sources. This would be the same for any type of magazine, book, video, and etc. If students don't follow this concept then there stealing someone else's work.

Plagiarism: Many internet users and students choose to use the internet to find information on certain topics. However it can be easy to still someone else work and clam it as your own. Many teachers or professors can easily detect if a student turns in plagiarized work. Its very easy for teachers to tell because if you go to Google and type in keywords they may find the same information the student has found. Also some colleges and university have software that can search the students work and find similar cites that could have copyright material. Students should not plagiarize work because it could lead to a failing grade or even expulsion from a school or college.

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