Searching Safely
Downloading
Inappropriate Content
Hoaxes and Scams
100
An easy way to narrow down searches so unwanted results do not come up.
What is to use more specific language (when typing in search criteria)?
100
The the type site that you should download a program form.
What is the official site of the people who make the program.
100
What you should do when inappropriate pictures of people come up on a image search.
What is to close the window or to go back a page?
100
What to do in a situation when an unknown source asks you for personal information.
What is to not give it to them?
200
You click on this link under the options menu on Google.com to change the amount of possibly inappropriate content that Google will filter out of your search.
What is Search Settings?
200
Before clicking on a link that that supposedly lets you download something you should do this.
What is to check the site's reliability.
200
On Google when you hover your mouse over a link it shows you a screenshot of the page that it links to. You should do this before clicking on the link.
What is to look at the screenshot and see if the website looks safe/appropriate.
200
The most important piece of personal information to not give away.
What is your social security number. (Especially if it is along with other information.)
300
Google's name for it's way to filter explicit content out of searches.
What is SafeSearch?
300
If you are thinking of downloading something from the web you should to this in order to see what other people had to say about it.
What is to look at the comments about the site/product/thing you are going to download.
300
Bonus Question: What "https" at the beginning of a web-address does to make itself different from from just "http."
What is to tell the web server to make communications on that page more secure?