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Internet and Search
This includes questions from Google Search, Internet, Evaluating Websites
Question | Answer |
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A word or a phrase you search for in Google when you have a question | query |
3 ways you can help determine the credibility, validity, or reliability of a website. | 1 -Author has credentials within topic 2- Information is current 3- The information can be verified |
Globally interconnected computer networks | Internet |
Program used to view HTML documents, or the World Wide Web (examples: Firefox, Safari, Chrome)? | Browser |
What is the set of documents residing on the internet that are formatted in hypertext? | The World Wide Web or www. |
What is a website called that retrieves and displays results from data, documents & files from a computer network (the Internet) or database? | Search Engine |
A URL (uniform resource locator) or the address of a website is | the Web Address |
True or False Google Analyzes web pages for "Relevance" | 1) analyze the web pages for relevance ranks the web pages - in terms of their relevance 2) Evaluates each site’s reputation - how often other websites link to it 3) |
Name two things that will change which websites Google will give you in your search results? | 1)Word order - (blue sky, sky blue); 2)Every word - (a, the, and); |
2nd thing Google does when you enter a query search after it looks at relevance | Rank Ranks the web pages |
Programs that looks at all the links on a webpage in order to find more webpages to index. | Spiders |
Google Operator: excludes unwanted words in your search | - (minus sign) |
Google Operator: links words to include BOTH in your search | AND + (plus sign) has to be all caps no spaces between + and the word |
Google Operator: searches for words in the exact order | " " (put your phrase in quotes) no space after first quote, no space before last quote |
True or False Can you pay Google to have your website show up first in the search results? | False - Google Search does not look at who pays them. Companies can pay to have adds show up on the sides, but not in the results. |
What is the Visible Web? | Websites that have been indexed by Google or other search Engines |
Google Operator: Using dots between numbers will give you any results between those numbers. | 2-3 dots in between numbers will search for any numbers between those 2 numbers |
Bing, Google, Yahoo are all examples of ________________ _____________. | Search Engines |
Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, and Google Chrome are all examples of a ____________________. | Internet Browsers |
Difference between a Webpage and a Website | Webpage is what you see on one screen. Websites include many webpages |
Google Operator: brings up the same results that have the tag or label | # hashtag |
Google Operator use this when you want to search for a price | $ dollar sign use before a number to use as a price search |
What is the World Wide Web? Hint: does not mean the same as Internet | Documents that are located on the Internet and written in hypertext This is what the Spiders index when they go through the Internet. |
True or False If you are logged in to your Google Account, all of your searches are saved. | True - Google keeps track of almost everything. |
True or False - Capital letters will change your search results | False - capital letters do not affect search |
True or False - Small words do not affect your search. | False - small words like (a, the, and ) will give different results Ex. - who, a who, the who |
True or False - question marks change search results | False - punctuation does not affect search results Exceptions are the Google Operators |
True or False - word order changes your search results | True - the order you place your words in the Google search will have an impact on search results |
True or False - A professional looking website is a good way to determine a website's credibility. | False - just because a website looks good does not mean that the information is totally credible or truthful |
The quality of being trusted, convincing, or believable | Credibility |
The quality of being logically sound, legally binding | Validity |
Consistency of a measurement Ex. Other websites have similar information | Reliability |
True or False - When evaluating a website, looking for the author and a way to contact them can help determine credibility. | True - you will still need to research if the author is an authority in the topic, but this can help determine credibility. |
True or False - To determine the reliability website, it can help to look at the dates. | True - although the date does not indicate information is accurate |
True or False - When evaluating a website, it is always a good idea to check other websites to see if you can verify the accuracy of information. | True - anyone can create a website |