1. List 4 major search engines and a major directory.

-Google, AllTheWeb, AskJeeves, and Altavista
-Yahoo

2. What is a blog?

-A blog is a type of website that is usually arranged in chronological order from the most recent post at the top of the main page to the older entries towards the bottom

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3. Why might you use quotation marks when conducting a search?

-To find words that appear adjacent to each other

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4. URL is an acronym for…

-Uniform Resource Locator

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5. Identify three Boolean search terms.

-AND, OR, and NEAR

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6. How do you find the owner or publisher of a Web site?

-Go to www.easywhois.com and enter the URL of the site you would like to research.

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7. Identify these extensions and what they represent:

.org - non-profit organization

.com - commercial

.sch - school (used outside US)

.k12 - school (mostly US)

.edu - educational

.gov - government

.ac - higher ed outside of US usually used with country code

.net - network

.mil - military

.co - company

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8. How do you find out who is linked to your school’s Web site?

-Go to the search engine Alta Vista and do a link: command search. In the search box type link:www.montgomeryacademy.org (or other school address).



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9. What clues in a Web address might indicate you are on a personal Web site?

-Look for a tilde “~”, the “%” sign, a personal name, or the word “user” after the domain name and the first forward slash “/“.

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10. How would you conduct a search for the following: a list of Web sites of all the academic institutions in South Africa?

-Go to the search engine Alta Vista and type host:ac.za in the search box.

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11. How do you find the history of any given Web site?

-Use the Wayback Machine. Go to www.archive.org and type the URL of the web site you would like to research into the search box.

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12. How would you conduct a search for the following: US school Web sites that contain the word turtle?

-Go to a search engine and type "host:sch + turtle" in the search box.

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13. If you type "miserable failure" into Google, your first or second result will be George Bush’s official biography. How is this possible?

-Google uses popularity to rank its sites. It also uses key words found all over each website to match it to searches.

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14. What is a wiki?

-A website or similar online resource which allows users to add and edit content collectively.



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15. What is a ning?

-Ning is an online platform for creating social websites and social networks.



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16. What is a news aggregator?

-A news aggregator is software that periodically reads a set of news sources, in one of several XML-based formats, finds the new bits, and displays them in reverse-chronological order on a single page.

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17. What is RSS feed?

-RSS feed is a format for delivering regularly changing web content.



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18. Why use RSS feed?

-It allows you to easily stay informed by retrieving the latest content from the sites you are interested in.

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19. What is social bookmarking?

-Social bookmarking is a way for internet users to store, classify, share, and search internet bookmarks.

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20. What is the advantage of social bookmarking?

-Web sites are tagged by people that understand the content of the sites rather than software that categorize them algorithmically.

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