Using Online Search Tools to Locate Information – Quiz

  1. Which best describes an online search engine?
  1. A tool that goes out onto the Internet and finds what you are looking for.
  2. A database of different information websites.
  3. A collection of websites.
  4. A program that crawls the Internet looking for and gathering information from websites.
  1. What is meant when a web page has been indexed?
  1. Information on the website has been stored by the search engine.
  2. The website has been deleted.
  3. The site is scheduled to be crawled.
  4. The site has been modified.
  1. The programs that collect information on web pages to be stored by the search engine are called what?
  1. Seekers
  2. Ants
  3. Spiders
  4. Beatles
  1. The information provided to a search engine so it can locate your web pages is called the…
  2. search field
  3. search query
  4. keyword
  5. results
  1. The keyword search method will return what?
  1. Web pages that have the exact words in the search query in the exact order.
  2. Only web pages that contain all the words in the search query.
  3. Web pages that contain any of the works in the search query.
  4. Nothing will be returned.
  1. When looking up web pages with specific wording, which type of phrase would be most appropriate?
  1. Phrase search
  2. Directory search
  3. Keyword search
  4. File type search
  1. What does the Boolean search filter do?
  1. Allows you to save your searches.
  2. Return web pages with specific phrases in them.
  3. Stores information about websites to the search engine.
  4. Specifies specific words to include or exclude.
  1. Which search query would return ONLY web pages that include the term “webmaster” as well as the term “certification”?
  1. webmaster OR certification
  2. webmaster certification
  3. webmaster AND certification
  4. webmaster NOT certification
  1. Which search query would return web pages that include the term, “web” as well as the term “degree,” but eliminate the pages that have the term “programming”?
  1. web AND degree OR programming
  2. web degree NOT programming
  3. web AND degree NOT programming
  4. web or degree
  1. Which search query would return PDF files of a webmaster job description?
  1. filetype: pdf webmaster job description
  2. pdf webmaster job description
  3. file: webmaster job description
  4. webmaster job description pdf

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