Exam 1: Searching the Internet Effectively

Which of the following are social media platforms?

____________________ formats are style guides that standardize how citations are written.

A spider is a computer program used by a search engine to index the contents of web pages.

In order to find two words in a sentence, one right after the other, you will want to refine your search with ____________________ searching.

The ____________________ is a vast global network of interconnected smaller networks.

What should you do when creating a list of keywords to use in your search?

Search engine ____ crawl the web.

Search engines use algorithms, or mathematical formulas, to rank each web site according to the terms used in your search query.

One way to determine how others value a site is to find out how many web pages link to the page you are evaluating.

The deep web ____.

Specialized or specialty search tools ____.

Finding relevant information on social media platforms is remarkably easy.

To find keywords in the correct order, you need to use ____.

Phrase searching can be accomplished, at many search engines, by putting ____________________ around the block of words you want to appear together on the web page.

A cached page is created by search engines for web pages that no longer exist.

Depending on your subject or which search tool you use, you might not need to evaluate the resources you find.

The first step in creating an Internet search strategy is to ____.