Exam 3: Searching the Web

Nextag and DealTime are examples of _________________________.

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

A search that puts the query in the form of a statement or question is a ____, like that shown in the accompanying figure.

A directory is a human-compiled, hierarchical list of webpages organized by category.

As shown in the accompanying figure, Yahoo! Screen is a(n) _________________________ search engine.

____ search engines can be used to search for people, news, magazine or journal articles, videos, blogs and other social media, products, or services.

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 targeted search typically generates thousands of hits and requires you to review multiple webpages to gather appropriate information.

A special type of search tool that compiles the search results from multiple search engines into a single search results list is a metasearch engine.

To specify an either-or condition, you must specifically enter ____ between the keywords to indicate that hits should include either of the keywords.

Shopping search engines aggregate information about consumer products and services, and help online shoppers compare models, prices, shipping costs, and other variables.

Two widely used resources for finding information on small and large businesses are Hoover's and Dun & Bradstreet.

Jerry's Guide, one of the first directories, was renamed ____ in 1995.

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.

The Previous and Next buttons, which you can click to move to the previous or next instance of the keyword on a page, are elements of the Internet Explorer Find bar.

A(n) ____ source is any document, item, or other data that provides firsthand information about a particular topic.

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

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 _________________________ operator indicates a keyword that must appear in a search results hit.