Exam 3: Browsing Subject Guides

Trailblazer pages are never narrow in scope.

Why do many subject guides provide a local search engine and how do these local search engines work?

Specialized search engines are available in a wide variety of topics.

When searching a(n) ____________________, use just a one word or two-word phrase.

A page's authority (the author and his/her qualifications) is one way to determine the ____________________ of a Web site.

Subject guides usually only have one way to access their information, a topical list.

The local search engines provided by subject guides search the whole web.

What is meant by browsing a subject guide?

LookSmart is a highly non-commercial subject guide.

____________________ are great time savers that subject guides provide, in that they allow you to preview a site before actually going to it.

Evaluative criteria are algorithms used by search engines to locate Web pages.

A good way to locate a specialized search engine is to ask a(n) ____________________.

Subject guides take more time to use than search engines because of the annotations.

Search engines are also know as subject trees.

Item 1 in the figure above points to the _______________.

Item 1 in the figure above points to the ____________ path.

A Subject guide usually provide alternate ways of finding information, like topical or alphabetical lists, or indexes based on subject or Dewey Decimal number.

The Web page summaries included in subject guides are called annotations.

_________________ is the easiest and most effective way to find information in a subject guide.

Locating the sponsor of a Web page, or finding a bibliography at the site are good ways of testing a Web page's objectivity and accuracy.