- Which of these groups list search engines and a major directory?
Your answer:
A9, Yahoo, Google, Open Directory
AltaVista, AllTheWeb, LookSmart, Beaucoup
Ask Jeeves, Hotbot, Teoma, DMOZ
All Of The Above
- What is a blog?
Your answer:
A movie from the fifties
short for weblog - a type of journal on the web
A jellied mass that lives in the ocean
A type of bicycle that originated in Asia
- Which of these keywords will return the best results for research on Native American tribes living in the Southwest?
Your answer:
American Southwest Native
Native American Southwest
"Native American" +Southwest
Southwest American Native
- URL is an acronym for . . .
Your answer:
Uniform Resource Locator
United Research Locations
Unlimited Research Lookup
Unicorn Resource Learning
- Identify three Boolean search terms
Your answer:
NEITHER, NOR, AND
EITHER, OR, PLUS
WITH, BUT, ALSO
AND, OR, NOT
- If you go to www.easywhois.com and enter the URL of a web site you would like to research, what information do you receive?
Your answer:
The owner and publisher of a Web site
The date the site was publisehd
Famous celebrities who have visited the Web site
Rogue groups that link to the site
- Which of these groups are all legitimate top domain extensions?
Your answer:
.uk, .post, .https
.org, .k12, .ac
.url, .http, .gov
.mil, .ed, .www
- If you go to Alta Vista: www.altavista.com and do a link: command search followed by your school's address, what will you find out?
Your answer:
Who has visited your site in the last 10 days
Who is linked to your school's Web site
Who published your Web site
What fond is used in the heading
- A tilde "~" or the "%" sign with a personal name after the domain name might indicate what?
Your answer:
You are on a PERSONAL Web site
The site is using a more fancy font than most
The site belongs to an educational institution
The site will be coming down in three days
- If you go to a site such as adwords.google.com, search for "global warming," and see a calculator for "cost per click," or go to www.overture.com, do a search for "global warming," and see "Max Bids" in the top right corner, what do you think this means?
Your answer:
Advertising is free in Google.
Search terms are available for purchase on the Internet.
No one pays any attention to ads in Google.
No one pays any attention to search terms.
- If you go to Alta Vista and type "host:ac.za" in the search box what do you think will be the information returned? (.za is a country code on one of the largest continents)
Your answer:
Number of air conditioned theatres in New Zealand
A list of Web sites of all the academic institutions in South Africa
Number of Zoomerang accounts on the Web
Links to charter academies on the west coast
- Which of these sites would you use to find the history of a site to see how it has changed over time?
Your answer:
The Wayback Machine at www.archive.org
History.Google.com
Yahoo's Yellow Pages Directory
The New York Times Learning Network
- if you go to Alta Vista: www.altavista.com and type "host:edu + turtle" in the search box, what results will be returned?
Your answer:
Web sites with K12 schools making reference to sea turtles
Higher education Web sites with a swim team
Australian turtles on Edmund Island
US higher eduation Web sites that contain the word turtle.
- How do sites get to the top of a results' list in Google?
Your answer:
Google ranks results based on popularity - the higher the number of links to a site, the higher the rank
A random sampling of voters pulled from the American Idol call-ins
Number of hits from the last year's statistics
A formula produced by Keebler University statisticians based on ads clicked per minute