1. List 4 major search engines and a major directory.
Yahoo, google, bing, altavista. Yellow Pages.
2. What is a blog?
A blog is like something you read, write, or edit a shared on-line journal.
3. Why might you use quotation marks when conducting a search?
Use “quotation marks” to ensure your keywords appear in your search results.
4. URL is an acronym for…
Uniform Resource Locator
5. Identify three Boolean search terms.
and, or, not
6. How do you find the owner or publisher of a Web site?
Go to www.easywhois.com
7. Identify these extensions and what they represent:
.org .com
.sch .k12
.edu .gov
.ac .net
.mil .co
.org – organization
.com – company
.sch – school (used outside of US)
.k12 – most US school sites
.edu – US higher ed
.gov – US government
.ac – higher ed outside of US
.net – network
.mil – US military
.co – Company
8. How do you find out who is linked to your school’s Web site? Go to altavista In the search box type link school’s address.
9. What clues in a Web address might indicate you are on a personal Web site?
Look for a tilde “~” or the “%” sign or a personal name “jdoe” or the word “user” after the domain name and the first forward slash “/
10. How would you conduct a search for the following: a list of Web sites of all the academic institutions in South Africa? (Hint: South Africa’s country code is .za)
11. How do you find the history of any given Web site?
Go to www.archive.org and type the URL of the web site you would like to research into the search box.
12. How would you conduct a search for the following: US higher education Web sites that contain the word turtle?
Go to Alta Vista and type “host:edu + turtle” in the search box.
13. How do sites get to the top of a result list in Google?
Having a certain amount of views and or the person has to use keywords.
