Exam 3: Searching the Web

What is the difference between a specific question and an exploratory question?

A Web ____________________ is a listing of hyperlinks to Web pages that is organized into hierarchical categories.

MATCHING Identify the letter of the choice that best matches the phrase or definition. -a word or phrase entered into a search engine

Many search engines allow you to restrict your search by using search "sifters."

The main weakness of a Web directory is that ____.

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. -At last, Lexie is satisfied with her list. She now still needs to buy a baseball. After doing more Web searches, she has narrowed the list to four favorite players. She now must search the Web to find (1) a collectibles store that carries (2) a stock of vintage autographed baseballs and has (3) one of the four names on her list. She will most likely need to use her search engine's variant of the ____ and ____ Boolean operators to meet all of these requirements.

Most search engines use ____ to indicate search terms that must be matched exactly as they appear.

____ Web pages are created "on the fly" from databases.

A(n) ____________________ ad appears in a box on a Web page, usually at the top but sometimes along the side or the bottom of the page.

Awesome Library is an example of a(n) ____.

On Wikipedia, contributors may post and edit articles anonymously, in which case the author is only identified by ____.

A static Web page is an HTML file that exists on a(n) ____________________, and can be found and examined by search engine robots.

Name and briefly describe the four major components of any Web page that you can use to evaluate the quality of the page.

George Boole developed the branch of mathematics and logic known as Boolean ____.

According to the text, Boolean operators are also called ____ operators.

In most practical applications of Boolean algebra, all values are reduced to one of two values: ____________________ and ____________________.

Hackers and other developers of malware tend to occupy a space of the Internet known as the "deep Web."

Search engines that include the wildcard function most often use "@" as the wildcard character.

Name and define the four broad categories of Web search tools.

You can find Web bibliographies on specific subjects by entering a search term along with the words "____" into a search engine.