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01 - What are search engines?

 1. The world wide web is a big place. If you know the web address, or ____, of a site you can find it by typing it into the address bar along the top of your browser.

  URL

  WWW

  XYZ

  SERL

 2. You can aslo find pages by following links from other pages but usually it is easier to search for things using a ___________.

  server

  search engine

  yahoo inventor

  game engine

 3. Search engines are programs that are designed to search the internet and scour through billions of web pages for us.
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  True

  False

 4. Search engines are programs that search an index of the world wide web for __________ and display the results in order.

  mathematics

  formulas

  keywords

  chinese words

 5. Search engines scour through all the billions of webpages, looking for information that _________________. This can take seconds!

  matches what you are seeking.

  is not relevant.

  is classified (only available to the government)

  is invisible.

 6. It is useful to think about the words that you use in your search. Too few and you will get too many results, too many and you may ____________.

  get a fine from the police.

  cause the internet to explode.

  get no results at all!

  get all the results that exist on the www.

 7. When you want to find the answer to a question, such as, ?What countries have nuclear weapons?? You need to think about the important __________.

  keywords

  computers

  servers

  websites

 8. When you use a search engine to find information, you type in a search term which consists of one or more keywords that are _______ to the information you seek

  different

  not specific

  general

  specific

 9. One example of a search engine is:

  A keyboard

  Apple Mac server

  Internet Explorer

  Google

 10. Larry and Sergey began working on BackRub, a search engine which utlized backlinks for search. This was the start of what we now know as _________.

  Yahoo

  Google

  a web browser

  the internet