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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: ________ and ________
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
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•Put most important terms first in your keyword list; to ensure that they will be searched, put a _____in front of each one
•Use at least ________ keywords in your query
•Combine ________, whenever possible, into phrases
•Avoid ________ words, e.g., water, unless they're part of a phrase
•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 ________by formulating precise queries. He called it the "________."
BOOLEAN "AND" The Boolean ________ 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 ________your search by returning documents in which either or both keywords
appear.
The Boolean ________ or ________ (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 ________. 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
________ what year.