Every week he publishes an interesting search challenge for readers then supplies the answers a few days later. A couple of years ago he posted a challenge called
Whats In Common? In the years because, Ive utilized numerous modifications of that difficulty to help students discover and practice making use of a range of search tools and strategies.
The Whats In Common? obstacle asks you to identify the shared qualities of two or more pictures, events, and or circumstances. In Dans original post he asked readers to discover the commonalities between 3 floods and he asked readers to find the commonalities between 3 plants.

What do these two have in typical besides being dogs?

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In addition to his blog, Dan Russell has a great book entitled
The Joy of Search. That book is loaded with ideas for becoming a much better users of search engines..

Every week he posts an intriguing search obstacle for readers then supplies the responses a few days later. The challenges vary in difficulty, but I always find out something from them regardless of how hard they are. A few years ago he published a challenge called
I may make one challenge based on reading the content of webpages that trainees find while browsing and make another obstacle based on being able to find and utilize the meta information in images.

Applications for Education
What I like about the
Whats In Common? challenge is that I can make it as simple or as difficult as I require it to be based upon my students existing ability levels. I might make one difficulty based on checking out the content of websites that students find while browsing and make another obstacle based on being able to discover and use the meta information in images.