Search Quiz

 

True or False

The Yahoo search engine and the Yahoo search directory are the same. 

True or False

It is a good idea to use more than one search engine if you want the greatest coverage because the search engines do not all deal with the same areas of the Internet. 

True or False

There are special blog search engines that can help in a search for blogs on a topic. 

True or False

A search directory is a database that has references to websites that were selected and classified by people as opposed to robots.  It is a hierarchical database of this information. 

True or False

Two popular search directories are:  Yahoo and Open Directory. 

True or False

Metasearch engines search multiple search engines and directories to find the information you are looking for.

True or False

It is recommended that you use search directories when you know exactly what you are looking for and search engines when you only have a general idea and want to drill down through the hierarchy. 

True or False

If I do a search for Oracle MySQL Access most of the search engines will act like there is an invisible AND between these and will return pages that contain references to all three databases. 

True or False

Writing a search for Bristol Community College and “Bristol Community College” will get the same results in most search engines. 

True or False

If a search engine is case sensitive, you will get the same results whether you enter “George Washington”, george washington, or “GEORGE WASHINGTON”. 

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How should I write the search if I want articles that reference either Oracle or MySQL or Access?

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I can you find information on John Quincy Adams that is stored as John Quincy Adams and John Q Adams?  Show me two approaches you could use. Test them and tell me what search engine you used and whether they worked equally well.

For the following searches, assume you are using a search engine that supports Boolean logic.

True or False

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If you entered the following search

“Revolutionary War” (“Bunker Hill” OR Yorktown)

you would get pages that had to do with the Revolutionary War and either the battle at Bunker Hill or the battle at Yorktown.  Test it and tell me if the results confirm this explanation. Tell me what search engine you used.

True or False

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If you entered the following search you would get recipes that contained either chicken and saffron or lamb and mint.  Essentially it grouped chicken with saffron and lamb with mint and looked for either combination. You might also get them all or something like chicken and lamb and mint. 

(chicken AND saffron) OR (lamb AND mint)

Test it and tell me if the results confirm this explanation. Tell me what search engine you used.

True or False

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If you entered the following search at Yahoo, you would get recipes with chicken and saffron but not lamb

(chicken AND saffron) –lamb

Do not copy and paste the hyphen, type it in at the search engine

Test it and tell me if the results confirm this explanation. Tell me what search engine you used.

True or False

If you run these two searches on an engine that supports NEAR then plague NEAR Europe will get fewer hits.

plague NEAR Europe

plague Europe