Exam 3: Searching the Web

Most search engines recognize the Boolean operators AND, OR, and FOR.

Sometimes a search engine will include stop words in its search if you include them as part of a phrase enclosed in ____.

The specific purpose of a meta tag is to inform Web robots about the content of a Web page.

A(n) ____________________ engine combines the power of multiple search engines.

The expression "____" would return pages containing both "woman" and "women."

The first step in evaluating a Web research resource is to determine who authored the page. _________________________

Effective Web search strategies for a Specific Question -In the accompanying figure, Box 1. represents ____.

MATCHING Identify the letter of the choice that best matches the phrase or definition. -a listing of hyperlinks to Web pages that is organized into hierarchical categories

In addition to identifying the author's identity and qualifications, author information should include details about the author's ____________________-either as an employee, owner, or consultant-with organizations that might have an interest in the research results.

In general, a Web page that has ____ inbound links is given a higher ranking than a page that has ____ inbound links.

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 search engine that Lexie uses produces no useful results. Lexie knows of other search engines. But she then thinks that using a(n) ____ might help her cover her bases by checking multiple search engines at once.

A ____, or spider, is a search engine program that automatically searches the Web to find new Web sites and update information about old Web sites.

A ____ Web page is an HTML file that exists on a Web server computer.

Esteban is studying the various ways of searching for information on the Internet. He has asked you to come over and help quiz him, and you've agreed. -Next, you show Esteban a copy of your favorite book, Paint and Parachutes. The cover is torn, and you'd like to buy another one. You ask him to search for the book on the Web, but the search results have been unhelpful. They only provide links to Web sites describing paint, or parachuting, not the book. You ask Esteban for the most likely reason this happened. Esteban tells you that ____.

One of a spider's most important tasks is to ____ information in a search engine database when a Web site no longer exists.

All search engines use the same rules to evaluate search expressions.

MATCHING Identify the letter of the choice that best matches the phrase or definition. -a Web page indexed in a search engine's database containing text matching a query

Boolean algebra uses ___.

Web search tools include four broad categories of sites: search engines, ____________________, metasearch engines, and resources such as Web bibliographies.

A ____ eliminates Web pages from search results.