VI. Research and Information Seeking

  Research and Information seeking uses different sources on the internet to look up information about a certain topic that the users want to learn. It is an ideal application that is made through the innovation of ICT and the World Wide Web.

         There are different information sources that are presented in the internet and these sources are listed below.

• Web Search Engines

        These are computer programs that search documents for specified keywords and returns a list of the documents where the keywords are found. It enables users to locate information on the World Wide Web and it maintains short summaries of the billions of pages on the Web. 

      The search results are generally presented in a line of results often referred to as search engine results pages (SERPs). Some of the examples of Web Search Engines are Google, Yahoo and Bing.

•  Research Indexing Sites

         These are websites that are often called as an online library. It is used to collect information broadly about scholarly literature. It is a website designed to allow users to search across many disciplines and sources like articles, thesis, books, abstracts and court opinions. An example of research indexing site is Google Scholar.

• Massive Online Open Course (MOOC)

       These are websites that are often called as online school. It is dedicated to inform and teach users focused on different areas by using the World Wide Web as a tool to establish communication between the teacher and the student.  

      MOOC's are a recent and widely research development in distance education. The term MOOC was coined by Dave Cormier in 2008 and emerged as a popular mode of learning in 2012. An example of a Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) is Coursera.

• Employment Web Sites These are websites dedicated to offer and search job opportunities for the user. It deals specifically with employment and career. It enables companies to post job vacancies and job requirements to be filled up by the aspiring workers. An example of an Employment Web Site is Dice and Crunchboard.
• Electronic Commerce (E-commerce)

       This is the facilitation of trading in products or services using computer networks such as the Internet or online social networks. It is a type of business model that enables a firm or an individual to conduct business over the World Wide Web.  

      Electronic commerce operates in all four of the major market segments which are the (1) business to business (2) business to con