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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 ______________
What are the following domains names?
.edu –
•"library" is the ________________ name
.com –
•"pages" and "bones" are folder and _______________ names
.gov -.mil -•the second "bones" ______________
.net -•"shtml" is the ___________________
.org --
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:
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•Be _________
•Whenever possible, use _________ and __________ as keywords
•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 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
_____