Assignment 7

1. What problems does the article mention that children run into when they use search engines?

2. What suggestions have been offered for how search engines can improve their product to lessen children’s problems searching?

3. Do you search using keywords or questions? How does the article characterize these two types of searching?

4. Have you tried using images or videos to search? How does the article characterize this type of searching?

5. What advice would you give to Internet search engine developers (like Google or Bing) for how they should improve their product? Do you think any of the improvements mentioned in the article are particularly promising? Why?

1) When children have a question they usually just look up the question directly on a search engine.But they run into problems when its a multi-step question. When they don't find the answer right away they usually give up.

2)When children struggle finding the answer to question there has been some really good suggestions. For example Google has increased the size of the search box for more complex search queries.Also if kids can provide keywords that could help dramatically.

3)When I have a really difficult question first I type in the full question. If i don't get the answer I usually type in some keywords and hopefully find something similar to the original question.

4) I have never used images or videos to search, I honestly did not know you could do that. I am really interested in trying it though. 

5)I think a good idea why be to have categories. Having categories could narrow down the question and make the process a lot smoother.