Exam 3: Searching the Web

Specialized search engines, such as Technorati, Digg, and Newsvine, are sometimes called ____.

Which specialized collection of electronic resources provides access to U.S. congressional and state government documents, statistics produced by governmental agencies and organizations, and primary and secondary sources of historical documents?

Users interact directly with web crawlers, such as Yahoo! Slurp, Googlebot, and Bingbot.

When examining a website's ____, determine whether the webpage information is presented fairly, whether the content contains any subtle or clear biases, or whether the information is skewed toward commercial or political interests.

To exclude a keyword from a search, some search engines require the NOT operator to be used while other search engines require ____ before the excluded term.

Some white pages and yellow pages directories offer additional services such as _________________________, which is useful when you know a telephone number and want to discover the name with which it is associated.

The Library of Congress's website provides searchable databases of legislative information and is named THOMAS, after Thomas Edison.

Many search tools today have become _________________________, basing their results on indexes created both by web crawlers and by human editors.

Which of the following are general-purpose search engines?

It is important to carefully review the source of each hit returned by a metasearch engine to eliminate ____ that might not be the most relevant to the search query.

A good directory will eliminate duplicate entries, categorize the hits based on topic, order the hits by relevance, and indicate which search engines provided the search results.

Which of the following are Boolean operators?

Which of the following are special-interest search engines?

A ____ shows the hierarchical arrangement of categories and subcategories through which a user has clicked.

Surround keywords with _________________________ when the keywords must appear together as a phrase.

When searching for a phrase, most search tools allow you to surround the keywords with parentheses.

What is a special type of search tool that compiles the search results from multiple search engines into a single search results list?

Case 3-1 Your best friend is a social studies teacher at the neighborhood middle school. He asks you to recommend a general-purpose search engine for his personal online research and a specialty search tool that is appropriate for his students to use in the classroom for their online research projects. -Which of the following search tools is the better choice for the teacher to use for his personal research?

Because anyone can publish information to the Internet, it is important to carefully assess the _________________________ of the webpage content.