Hello how may I help you? Can you help me out with the internet? I can try. What do you need help with? I need help understanding how to use a search engine. Sure, I should be able to help with that. Is there a particular search engine you are trying to use? Any search engine as long as you give me super detailed instructions. No problem. With all search engines, you will find a text box near the top of the page. You can enter in anything at all you can think of to search in that box. Then click the search button, or hit the enter button on your keyboard, and the search engine will return the results you are looking for Ok so I have to type what I want to find? Yes, that's right. It could be the name of something, or it could be a question. Almost anything you can think of! So it can't just read my mind? It doesn't have that capability....yet Could I use voice dictation? Yes, on some search engines you will notice a little microphone icon. If you click on that, you can simply ask the question or speak the thing out loud and the search engine will find it for you Oh okay. What about pictures? Do you mean if you want to find a picture? Yeah, can I search for images? yes you can. A search engine will have a few categories by which you can look at the results. All, Images, News, Videos. If you click on images, the results will be all picutres Same with videos? Yes, same with videos. The search engine should be able to find anything you're looking for Can I sort by local news? You can. There are lots of tools that you can also use to modify your search. Like by date? Yep, by date, by time, by location. But usually the most relevant results will be at the top of the results page without having to do much with the tools Good, I'd hate to read old news. The internet is amazing. Yes, since old news isn't really relevant, you won't find that as easy as current news What if I want to look myself up? You can look yourself up if you'd like That could be scary. If you have a common name, you may get lots of results that aren't about you It can be scary! Oh, like the mobster with the same name as me I swear I'm not a mobster. :) I think I believe you Can I have search results deleted from the engine? You can, but my understanding is that it can be difficult Like if I found an article claiming I'm a mobster. Which is totally fake news. Right. Something like that, which would be fake news, would be something you could petition to have removed Oh perfect. People do that for things that could be libel I'll use my first try with a search engine to find myself a lawyer. That's an excellent idea Thank you. And thanks for all of your help. You're getting smarter already! The internet for the win! :)