{"id":1042,"date":"2020-08-18T13:22:54","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T13:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhslrc\/?page_id=1042"},"modified":"2022-08-18T13:09:10","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T13:09:10","slug":"searchengines","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhslrc\/il\/searchengines\/","title":{"rendered":"Search engines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google is the best known search engine in the world, but it doesn&#8217;t always supply the information you need.<\/p>\n<p>Different search engines can provide different results, and may arrange their suggestions in a different order, so you often spot websites, videos or images on one search engine, but not on another.<\/p>\n<p>Many search engines are also specific to particular areas of information. Try using some of the search engines below in your research.<\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #333399\"><strong>Warning: just because something appears online does not make it accurate. you should always try to confirm your information with at least two other sources, or use a fact-checking website.<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhslrc\/links\/pathways\/images\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Image searches<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhslrc\/il\/academic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Academic search engines<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bing<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Worth a try especially for video links, but also includes Ordnance Survey maps in its map search<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/duckduckgo.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DuckDuckGo<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This search engine often comes up with different results to Google. Definitely worth trying.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>You don&#8217;t have to be a member of Twitter to read it, and it can work as a very useful search engine, especially to find opinions on different topics. Just don&#8217;t assume everything is accurate.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Slideshare<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Slideshare shares presentations online so it can be a useful source of information. As always, be careful with accuracy and opinion.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is the best known search engine in the world, but it doesn&#8217;t always supply the information you need. Different search engines can provide different results, and may arrange their suggestions in a different order, so you often spot websites, videos or images on one search engine, but not on another. Many search engines are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhslrc\/il\/searchengines\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Search engines<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2376,"featured_media":0,"parent":154,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1042","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhslrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhslrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhslrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhslrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhslrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1042"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhslrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3695,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhslrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1042\/revisions\/3695"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhslrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhslrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}