| A | B |
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| A method of viewing data on the Internet by typing a URL into the URL box and going straight to the website. | Direct addressing |
| A method of viewing data on the Internet by using virtual museums or research centers. | Online references |
| A method of viewing data on the Internet by using a website designed to find information based on keywords. | Search engines |
| www.yahoo.com is an example of accessing a website on the web by using this method. | Direct addressing |
| HotBot is an example of a(n): | Search engine |
| www.si.edu/activity/planvis/museums/start.htm is an example of viewing data using a(n): | Online references |
| The following character tells the search engine to limit a search to web sites containing two or more specified words. | + |
| following character tells the search engine to broaden the search to find sites that contain any of the words in the criteria. | a space |
| The following character tells the search engine to exclude unwanted sites. | - |
| When using a search engine to search for information, characters can be combined to produce very precise criteria. | True |
| A user can use search characters for any search engine. | False |
| When evaluating websites it is most wise to check for: | Up-to-date and factual information |
| A listing which gives the reader a literary analysis of the website is called: | Annotated web listing |
| Two types of catalogs. | Hierarchical and Subject |
| Two types of search engines. | Subject-and-Keyword and Multi-threaded |
| Search engines are also called: | Spiders or Web crawlers |
| Build their own catalogs by gathering information and organizing it from other sites prior to being asked for a specific search string. | Subject-and-Keyword |
| Slower search engines because they don't maintain their own catalog--Search for specific strings only when asked. | Multi-threaded |
| Words or phrases used to narrow a search area. | Text string |
| Broadest kind of search; uses only one or two keywords. | Simple search |
| Uses Boolean operators (and, or, not, etc.) and grouping operators (double quotes, parentheses). | Complex search |
| Two types of searches: | Simple and Complex |
| Causes of error messages in a search | Typos, proper capitalization or proper nouns, spelling and variations. |
| Examples of error messages in a search. | Site is busy or down, site no longer exists, server unavailable or not found, file not found. |
