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Searching the Internet
Please look over the following website http://www.sc.edu/beaufort/library/pages/bones/bones.shtml to answer the follow questions. Each lesson has valuable information to learn about searching the internet.
bare bones Lesson 1: Search engines
WHAT ARE SEARCH ENGINES? Define
There are two types of search engines: 1 2 ______
HOW DO SEARCH ENGINES WORK? Search engines compile their databases by employing "______" or "______" ("bots") to crawl through web space from link to link, identifying and perusing pages.
HOW DO SEARCH ENGINES RANK WEB PAGES? In ranking web pages, search engines follow a certain set of ______.
ARE SEARCH ENGINES ALL THE SAME? Search engines use selected ______ to search their indexes for matching ______and ______, presenting their findings to you in some kind of relevance ranking
WHEN DO YOU USE SEARCH ENGINES? Search engines are ______, phrases, quotes, and information buried in the full-text of web pages
WHAT ARE METASEARCH ENGINES? ______ engines do not crawl the web compiling their own ______
HOW DO METASEARCHERS DISPLAY THEIR RESULTS?
Metasearch engines present the results of their searches in one of two ways: ______.
WHAT ARE SUBJECT DIRECTORIES? Subject directories, unlike search engines, are ______and maintained by ______, not electronic spiders or robots.
HOW DO SUBJECT DIRECTORIES WORK? When you initiate a keyword search of a directory's contents, the directory attempts to match ______ with those in its written descriptions. Subject directories come in assorted flavors
bare bones Lesson 5: Evaluating Web Pages
READING WEB ADDRESSES:
First, you need to know how to read a web address, or URL (Universal Resource Locator). Let's look at the URL for this tutorial:
http://www.sc.edu/beaufort/library/pages/bones/bones.shtml Here's what it all means:
•"http" means ______ and refers to the format used to transfer and deal with information
•"www" stands for ______ and is the general name for the host server that supports text, graphics, sound files, etc.
•"sc" is the ______ name and usually designates the server's location
•"edu" is the ______ name (see below)
•"beaufort" is the ______
•"library" is the ______ name
•"pages" and "bones" are folder and ______ names
•the second "bones" ______
•"shtml" is the ______
YOUR SEARCH RETURNS A "404 -- FILE NOT FOUND" MESSAGE This message tells you that the file you seek has been ______. Go back to the search engine and do a phrase search or a field search on the title. Try ______ the URL to see if the file might still be on the same server. Try your search on Google, which maintains cached copies of pages.
BARE BONES LESSON 6: CREATING A SEARCH STRATEGY
CREATING A SEARCH STATEMENT:
1. •Be ______
2. •Whenever possible, use ______and ______ as keywords
3. •Put most important terms first in your keyword list; to ensure that they will be searched, put a _____ in front of each one
4. •Use at least ______ keywords in your query
5. •Combine ______, whenever possible, into phrases
6. •Avoid _____ words, e.g., water, unless they're part of a phrase
7. •Write down your search statement and ______you type it into a search engine query box
Bare Bones Lesson 8: Searching with Boolean logic and proximity operators
Boolean logic takes its name from British mathematician ______ (1815-1864), who wrote about a system of logic designed to produce better search results by formulating precise queries. He called it the "______”
BOOLEAN "AND" The Boolean AND actually ______ your search by retrieving only documents that contain every one of the keywords you enter. The more terms you enter, the narrower your search becomes.
BOOLEAN "OR" The Boolean OR ______your search by returning documents in which either or both keywords appear.
The Boolean NOT or AND NOT (sometimes typed as ANDNOT) ______ your search by returning only your first keyword but not the second, even if the first word appears in that document, too.
IMPLIED BOOLEAN OPERATORS Implied Boolean operators use the ______(+) and ______ (-) symbols in place of the full Boolean operators, AND and NOT. Typing a (+) or (-) sign in front of a word will force the ______or ______ of that word in the search statement.
Similarly, putting double ______(" ") around ______ words will force them to be searched as a phrase in that exact order.
bare bones lesson 11: ASK.com
Ask debuted in ______ and was purchased by Ask Jeeves later that year. Although it supports only ______ Boolean searching,
bare bones lesson 15: Google
Google was created in the winter of ______by graduate students at ______University. Today it lays claim to being the largest of all the search engines, indexing over ______ pages on the Web.
bare bones lesson 17: Yahoo!
Yahoo! Directory, was created by Stanford graduate students, ______and ______, and was launched in _____