Searching for a word on a webpage

Did you ever do a Google Search for a specific word and wind up at a huge webpage full of words?  Well there is a way to search a webpage for a specific word or phrase.  Below is an example of how to do it:
Let’s say you were interested in researching some of the crazy laws that are on the books here in Pennsylvania.  More specifically let’s try to find out if there are any strange laws in Newtown, Pennsylvania.
You start by doing a search using Google:

The search might lead you to this website:  http://easiertips.blogspot.comUnfortunately, this website is huge, and it lists crazy laws from every state in the union.  All you wanted read about were the crazy laws in Newtown, Pennsylvania.  Here’s how you search a large webpage for a specific word or phrase:

1)     Go to “Edit” on the menu bar and select “Find (On this Page)” from the list

2)      Type what you are looking for in the “Find what” box and click “Find Next”

3)      It should take you to the exact place in the webpage where the word you typed appears:

PRACTICE ACTIVITY:  Try searching this webpage for the words: "The End" right now.

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Just Google It!

The web is enormous, super huge, and in the event that you need to utilize it successfully you must be acquainted with web crawlers. Google.com has turned into the web search tool of decision for a great many web clients. There are others, and if the past is any aide, there will be a "superior than Google" web crawler sometime in the not so distant future. Be that as it may, for the time being Google is by all accounts the best. A reason's piece they are the best is that they continue growing better approaches for taking a gander at the web. The following are two or three extra components that Google offers that you may need to look at now and later on as they keep on developping:

news.google.com  Need a current event?  Forget about the newspaper, use the internet like teenagers do to find stories that are only minutes old.
images.google.com/  Arguably the best image search engine in the world.  Try finding a picture of something today.
google.com/shopping  Looking to make a purchase. Shop and compare prices online first using Google Shopping.
google.com/finance  What to check the stock market, try this website for a quick overview.
maps.google.com   Looking for an up to date map or satellite photo, check out these amazingly easy to manipulate maps and photos.
video.google.com  Google has their own video search engine.  Find an educational video on the internet that you can play for your class
youtube.com Several years ago Google bought Youtube which has become the premier video sharing website on the internet.
scholar.google.com  Another project that Google is working on is to create a more efficient way to search scholarly papers.
books.google.com  This is a great way to jump into some literature.  Check out a book online, read some passages and find out where you can buy a copy.

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