Exam 4: Finding Specialty Information

The visible Web is the portion of the Web that is indexed by search engine spiders.

____________________ are virtual bulletin boards.

FirstGov is an example of a comprehensive U.S. government portal.

By using an intelligent search agent you can eliminate the need to visit individual sites and manually enter queries.

Libraries and "virtual libraries" are good places to find specialty research tools.

The common rules of courtesy used by people on the Internet are called ____________________.

The ____________________ Web is the portion of the Web that is indexed by search engine spiders.

An intelligent search agent is like a smart metasearch engine in that it knows how to interpret your query to other search engines in a way they will understand it correctly.

White pages usually allow you to search for a person's ____________________ address.

The invisible Web is also called the __________ Web.

Yellowpages.ca allows you to search for businesses located in ____________________.

Intelligent search agents are also known as ____________________.

Boolean searching is not available on intelligent search agents.

What are intelligent search agents?

Newsgroups are virtual bulletin boards where messages on thousands of topics are posted daily.

A portal, limited by subject is referred to as a(n) ____________________.

Some specialized research tools are not free. What are the ramifications of this to the researcher?

Portals that are limited by subject are called vortals.

Intelligent search agents can query multiple sources simultaneously.

The visible Web is also known as the deep Web.