Internet Search PreTest

Barbara Khirallah

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  1. Information retrieved using one search engine is the same as information retrieved using any other search engine.

    2. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  2. Search engines are software programs that retrieve the location of any information located on the Web.

    3. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  3. Search engines rank pages based on the frequency of keywords found on a given webpage.

    4. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  4. Yahoo is more useful than AltaVista for browsing in general or for narrowing a broad topic.

    5. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  5. Search input, civil war, will yield the same results as search input, "civil war".

    6. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  6. If you need answers to common questions, Ask Jeeves is a good place to start.

    7. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  7. A Hot Bot search gives you a choice between Google, FAST, Inktomi, and Teoma - the four search engines on the Web.

    8. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  8. If you need to search the largest amount of the Internet, your best bets are Magellan, MetaCrawler, and Yahoo.

    9. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  9. Good places to browse educational topics and resources are: Schrock's Guide, Blue Web'n, and Connections +

    10. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  10. Google, Yahoo and MSN Search are rated as the top performers on the "perfect page test" by SearchDay, a free newsletter from Search Engine Watch

    11. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  11. If you know the date of an event and are looking for more information, Hot Bot Super Search can limit searches by date.

    12. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  12. A Spider is software that scans documents and adds them to an index by following links. Spider is often used as a synonym for search engine.

    13. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  13. If you need to do a pinpoint search because your terms are narrow, Alta Vista's massive and fast indexer of full text, is a very good search engine to choose.

    14. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  14. If you are short on time and looking for quality, evaluated sites with both reviews and ratings, good tools are Magellan and Web Crawler.

    15. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  15. MetaCrawler can search by continent and is thus good for locating web pages from a given geographic region.

    16. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  16. You may search for words in proximity to one another [within 10 words] on AltaVista and Yahoo using the following format: mary~lamb.

    17. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  17. You may search for related words such as woman or women on both AltaVista and Excite using the following format: wom*n.

    18. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  18. You can do a natural language search on InfoSeek. This means you can input information in the following format: Where was President Abraham Lincoln assassinated?

    19. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  19. You can create and edit a list of useful sites for your students using your browser.

    20. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  20. There are Web Watchers and Personal Spiders to monitor the Internet for you, to check for new information, and to keep your web sites updated.

    21. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

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