Exam 1: The Web Becomes 2.0

Google Maps uses ____ to allow the user to reposition a map or zoom in and out by dragging the map or maneuvering the scroll bar.

Many companies have invested in laying fiber-optic cables across the ocean, resulting in a truly global Internet.

-In the accompanying figure, ____ checks to make sure that the login name you want has not been claimed by another user.

Broadband connections provide greater ____, the speed at which information travels over the Internet.

Web 2.0 sites rely upon the fact that many people will visit them and provide new ____ that keeps them fresh.

A browser plug-in is a software component that enables dynamic, animated display and functionality within a Web ____________________.

Facebook has grown to become an online directory where people of all ages turn to find long-lost friends.

The My Yahoo! portal page allows users to customize the location and content of each region on the page.

AJAX is often used to facilitate user interactions, such as offering typing suggestions as a user enters data in text boxes on a(n) ________ in a Web page.

A(n) ____________________ technique is often implemented on search engines to help the user decide on a search term.

To simplify the problem of having multiple browser windows open at the same time, tabbed browsing became a common interface element.

Web applications, hosted on a Web server, access data stored in a database client available on the World Wide Web.

-Although many people use the terms World Wide Web and ____ interchangeably, there is a difference, as shown in the accompanying figure.

An environment that supports creating and running software applications is known as a computing ____________________.

-The site in the accompanying figure displays a list of services that you can add to ____.

Yahoo! offers more than a search engine and ___.

A blog application receives the data from the database server and assembles it into the blog's ____.

The fact that users of Web 2.0 sites can contribute to their ____________________ makes popular Web sites today very different from early Web sites.

Wikipedia is a collaborative online ____________________ that relies on its contributors to write, review, and update the millions of articles it contains.

Predictive look-ahead, or ____, provides suggestions of valid responses based on letters that a user enters in a text box.