Exam 1: Searching the Internet Effectively

Internet search tools can be divided into four major categories: search engines, metasearch engines, subject guides, and intelligent agents.

The first step in an efficient research strategy is to ____________________ your research topic.

Search engine _________ crawl the Web.

Specialized search tools allow you to find information that is "invisible" to traditional search engines or subject guides.

Encyclopedias and reference sources are good places to look for background information.

Phrase searching is usually accomplished by putting parentheses ( ) around the block of words you want to appear together on the Web pages the search engine returns.

Every search engine's spider finds the same Web pages, which is why all search engines are interchangeable.

Search engines use programs called ____________________ to index the Web.

Citation formats are _____________ that standardize how citations are written.

The first step in translating a question into an effective search query is to identify the keywords in the topic.

_________ are mathematical formulas used by search engines to rank Web sites according to the terms used in the search query.

Before you being a search, you first need to focus on what information you want to find and where you might find it.