Exam 2: Constructing Complex Searches

Whenever you connect keywords in your search with AND, you are commanding the search engine to find ____________________ of the keywords on every Web page it returns.

AND NOT broadens your search so that you find more pages than if you hadn't used it.

"Any of the words" is another way of expressing the Boolean operator ____________________.

Each time you add the operator AND to your search you are narrowing the search.

Boolean operators are one syntax search engines understand.

AND, OR, and AND NOT are examples of __________ operators.

The last two or three letters in a URL is the domain.

If you narrow your search it means you should have fewer results returned.

Each time you add OR to your search, you are expanding the search to include more Web pages.

The OR operator is often used to combine ____________________.

You can perform a search with more Boolean operators from an Advanced search page than from the Basic search page.

Some search engines allow AND searching with check boxes or pull-down menus with words like "must include" or "must contain".

Boolean operators indicate how the different keywords relate to each other in a search query.

A mathematical syntax that a search engine can use to perform searches is called ____________________ logic.

To search for solar panels on Google's Advanced Search form, you would enter "-solar-panels".

When using Advanced search pages you don't need to type in the Boolean operators because they are assumed.

Since search engines handle large amounts of data, most of them do not support Boolean logic or complex query statements.

Each time you add ____________________ to your search, you are expanding the search to include more Web pages.

Use the AND NOT operator if your initial search returns too many irrelevant results.