Exam 2: Constructing Complex Searches

You are a reporter for your college newspaper and planning some advance columns for a weekly Internet column. You know it would be helpful for your readers to understand what's going on in advanced searches with Boolean logic. It seems too daunting to try to cover in one column, so you decide to start by making notes about what you want to cover in several columns. What would you tell your mother to best help her maximize her use of metasearch engines?

When Venn diagrams overlap and the area of both circles represents search results, the results are the intersection of the sets.

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

Using ____________________ forces the order of operations in your search query.

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

Boolean operators can be typed in all capital letters or not, depending on the search.

A search engine usually reads your search query from right to left.

You are a reporter for your college newspaper and planning some advance columns for a weekly Internet column. You know it would be helpful for your readers to understand what's going on in advanced searches with Boolean logic. It seems too daunting to try to cover in one column, so you decide to start by making notes about what you want to cover in several columns. Record the information you would cover in a column about how advanced search pages use Boolean operators that the user isn't actually typing in.

You are a reporter for your college newspaper and planning some advance columns for a weekly Internet column. You know it would be helpful for your readers to understand what's going on in advanced searches with Boolean logic. It seems too daunting to try to cover in one column, so you decide to start by making notes about what you want to cover in several columns. Record the information you want to cover when you write about Boolean operators in general, including what they are, what Boolean logic is, how to understand or illustrate the logic, etc.