Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. They do this by indexing billions of pages of online content, in all kinds and formats and forms, and currently working on inputting and indexing billions of offline content as well, including magazines, books, scholarly articles, and so on.

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Educators have the universal desire to impart knowledge, instill lessons, and encourage learners to find out things on their own. In this modern day and age, traditional learning still takes place within the four walls of the classroom but it can also occur over the unconventional and exciting virtual world of the internet.

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Search is simple, but getting the best results for your search query often isn’t. There are lots of factors that can throw off the algorithms of most search engines, so understanding special modifiers to use in your search for specific items will allow you to perform better research, much more quickly.

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Today research sources are so readily available that search skills not only could be integrated into every aspect of the classroom environment, but they should be. The main goal of teaching search skills in the classroom is to change the way people think about search.

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