Exam 4: Finding Specialty Information

Virtual bulletin boards are also called forums or newsgroups.

High-powered yellow page directories, like Switchboard, integrate ____________________ directory listings with maps and travel planners.

The deep Web may be up to 50 times bigger than the visible Web.

Discuss how scholarly research and popular periodical articles differ in terms of purpose, audience, and documentation of sources.

Mailing lists are also known as Usenet.

Intelligent search agents can automate information retrieval by simultaneously retrieving information stored in Web databases.

An Intelligent Search Agent is also called a bit.

_____________ addresses are in the following format: listname-subscribe@someplace.org .

Some of the most current and authoritative information hidden in the invisible Web is stored in periodical databases.

How can you find specialty information?

If a member of a subscription e-mails you and impolitely tells you to use another address, this is called a ________.

Newsgroups are also known as listservs.

Online archives of magazines, newspapers and journals are called ____________________ databases.

Up-to-date, detailed information about individual people is hard to come by on the Web.

Subtopics of posted topics are also called threads.

The ____________________ address of a mailing list is also known as the administrative address.

Scholarly research periodicals always contain ____________________ so that you can check on the sources used by the author.

One of the purposes of popular periodicals is to report original research or experiments.

Approximately 95% of the invisible Web is available publicly.

Most Internet content now resides in online ____________________ unavailable to traditional search engines.