Exam 3: Searching the Web

A ____ is a Web page that is indexed by a search engine and contains text matching a specific search expression.

MATCHING Identify the letter of the choice that best matches the phrase or definition. -a program that automatically searches the Web to find new Web sites

Dogpile was one of the first metasearch engines on the Web.

Regarding search engines, the term "stemming" means ____.

Lexie's father is turning 50 in a couple weeks. She wants to mark the day with a very special gift. Her father is a huge baseball fan, so she decides to get him an autographed baseball. But not just any baseball--she wants one autographed by someone from their hometown team that was playing in the majors when her father was born. -Lexie finds a search engine she wishes to use. She begins typing in her query. She wants to find a Web site that will list (1) major league baseball players in (2) her hometown team that were playing in (3) the year her father was born. She will most likely need to use her search engine's variant of the ____ Boolean operator to meet all of these requirements.

Wikipedia relies on contributions from anyone for its entries. _________________________

Lexie's father is turning 50 in a couple weeks. She wants to mark the day with a very special gift. Her father is a huge baseball fan, so she decides to get him an autographed baseball. But not just any baseball--she wants one autographed by someone from their hometown team that was playing in the majors when her father was born. -The first thing Lexie needs to do is find out the names of the baseball players who were on the roster in the year that her father was born. She connects to the Internet, and starts planning her search. The question she wants to answer is ____.

-In the accompanying figure, which search expression returns pages that must include all of the search terms?

A search filter eliminates Web pages from search results. _________________________

Clustering provides a(n) ____ filtering effect.

A(n) ____ is the right to have a link to your Web site appear on the search results page when a user enters a specific search term.

A(n) ____ question is a question that you can phrase easily, and one for which you will recognize the answer when you find it.

Open Directory Project information can be found in ____ databases.

MATCHING Identify the letter of the choice that best matches the phrase or definition. -to search for variants of keywords

-In the accompanying figure, which search expression returns pages that include any of the three search items?

____ was the first search engine to use page ranking.

A metasearch engine does have its own database of Web information. _________________________

Web ____________________ are also called resource lists, subject guides, clearinghouses, and virtual libraries.

A Web search engine is a Web site (or part of one) that finds other Web pages that match a word or phrase you enter. _________________________

The three Boolean operators recognized by most search engines are ____.