Exam 3: Finding Specialty Information

____ search engines are available for a wide variety of topics, including law, medicine, computers, and energy.

You navigate or browse a subject guide primarily by "drilling down."

Most subject guides' engines still search only their hand-selected indexes.

WWW Virtual Library and the Open Directory Projects are examples of ____ subject guides.

____________________ generated web pages are web pages that databases created based on specific queries or pages that require a login name and password.

Portals that are limited by subject, especially in fields like industry or government, are referred to as ____________________, or vertical portals.

Portals or vortals are sometimes considered a type of specialized search engine.

Specialized search engines do not limit the web pages they search by subject.

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

____________________ search engines are similar to regular web search engines, except, like some subject guides, they limit the web pages they search by subject.

Some of the most authoritative and current information hidden in the invisible web is stored in ____ databases.

Subject guides are relatively large, which is an advantage.

In a ____ subject guide, clicking categories might direct your browser to a site on a different web server.

Subject trees make subject guides the tools of choice for many researchers.

When you find a good reference sites, add them to your browser's Favorites or Bookmarks file for easy access.

A subject guide might provide its lists of topics arranged in multiple ways, such as listing topics alphabetically, geographically, chronologically, or by the Dewey Decimal subject classification system.

Hierarchy is a(n) random order.

A(n) ____________________ is a ranked order.