Welcome to Search School!
Where the Elite Meet To Learn How To Search!
Please contact us if you see anything that you think we should know about (we love feedback).
What Sorts of Things Can I Do Here?
There are many things to do during your visit(s) to Search School. There are seven major sections of Search School:
- Home-This is the main page for Search School. If you're reading these words right now, you are here now.
- Learn-The Learn page has a lot of information about how search engines work and how to use search engines in an efficient way. You can watch videos, read articles and do all sorts of other, study-type, things. There are also a bunch of exercises, quizzes and other sorts of scholarly activities to engage in.
- Recess-The Recess page has a bunch of fun activities and search games to play. If this is your first visit to Search School, the Recess page is definitely the first place you should go.
- "The Searcher"-"The Searcher" is the official blog and paper of record for Search School. You can read about interesting things that are happening in the world of search, interesting things that are happening at Search School, write in with any problems that you are having with searching the internet, and participate in our weekly "Query Quiz."
- References-The Reference Page is the Search School Library. It has a bunch of resources, websites, and other useful things that exist on the Internet in various places. If you go there, you'll definitely learn something you didn't know before you went.
- About-This is where you can read all about Search School: Why it exists, who "works" here, and how to contact them
- Site Map-A good place to go if you get lost. The Site Map lists all of the pages on the Search School website.
But I Hate School!
Search School isn't like the kind of school that you hate. You only do what you want to do while you visit Search School. No "teacher" is going to tell you what to do and when to do it. We figure that if you are here, you want to be here. And if you ever feel like you're bored or otherwise not interested in what you are learning about while you visit Search School, just type your URL of choice into your browser and let the internet whisk you away to something you find more interesting. You can always come back to Search School when the mood strikes you. We're not going anywhere.
I Can't Learn on My Own! I Need Guidance and Direction!
Just because you are doing what you want to when you are at Search School, doesn't mean that there aren't "teachers" that you can interact with. Any questions that you have about what you're doing or how to do it can be directed to the adults who created this site by clicking on the "About" link on the navigation menu on the left of this page any time you are confused.
Or, if you want to skip all of that, you can just e-mail us.
