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This includes questions from Google Search, Internet, Evaluating Websites

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A word or a phrase you search for in Google when you have a question   query  
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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  
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Globally interconnected computer networks   Internet  
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Program used to view HTML documents, or the World Wide Web (examples: Firefox, Safari, Chrome)?   Browser  
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What is the set of documents residing on the internet that are formatted in hypertext?   The World Wide Web or www.  
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What is a website called that retrieves and displays results from data, documents & files from a computer network (the Internet) or database?   Search Engine  
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A URL (uniform resource locator) or the address of a website is   the Web Address  
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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)  
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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);  
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2nd thing Google does when you enter a query search after it looks at relevance   Rank Ranks the web pages  
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Programs that looks at all the links on a webpage in order to find more webpages to index.   Spiders  
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Google Operator: excludes unwanted words in your search   - (minus sign)  
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Google Operator: links words to include BOTH in your search   AND + (plus sign) has to be all caps no spaces between + and the word  
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Google Operator: searches for words in the exact order   " " (put your phrase in quotes) no space after first quote, no space before last quote  
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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.  
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What is the Visible Web?   Websites that have been indexed by Google or other search Engines  
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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  
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Bing, Google, Yahoo are all examples of ________________ _____________.   Search Engines  
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Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, and Google Chrome are all examples of a ____________________.   Internet Browsers  
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Difference between a Webpage and a Website   Webpage is what you see on one screen. Websites include many webpages  
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Google Operator: brings up the same results that have the tag or label   # hashtag  
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Google Operator use this when you want to search for a price   $ dollar sign use before a number to use as a price search  
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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.  
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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.  
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True or False - Capital letters will change your search results   False - capital letters do not affect search  
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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  
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True or False - question marks change search results   False - punctuation does not affect search results Exceptions are the Google Operators  
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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  
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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  
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The quality of being trusted, convincing, or believable   Credibility  
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The quality of being logically sound, legally binding   Validity  
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Consistency of a measurement Ex. Other websites have similar information   Reliability  
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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.  
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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  
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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  
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