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Case 3-1 Your best friend is a social studies teacher at the neighborhood middle school. He asks you to recommend a general-purpose search engine for his personal online research and a specialty search tool that is appropriate for his students to use in the classroom for their online research projects. -Which of the following search tools is the better choice for the teacher's students to use in the classroom?

A) Ask.com
B) Fact Monster
C) Gigablast
D) Bing

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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When searching for information, such as an email address or telephone number, it is more efficient to use a specialized directory, such as an online white pages directory or ____ directory.

A) stop word
B) primary source
C) search query
D) yellow pages

E) A) and B)
F) B) and D)

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Most directories have strategic partnerships with search engines.

To quickly display the Find bar in Internet Explorer and Chrome , press the CTRL+F key combination.

Which of the following are social media aggregators?

The Previous and Next buttons, which you can click to move to the previous or next instance of the keyword on a page, are elements of the Internet Explorer Find bar.

Shopping search engines aggregate information about consumer products and services, and help online shoppers compare models, prices, shipping costs, and other variables.

Bot is short for _________________________.

____ is a specialty search tool designed for kid-friendly searches.

A(n) _____ search typically generates thousands of hits and requires a review of multiple webpages to gather appropriate information.

Using human editors to compile a directory's index of web resources is an advantage because of the time it takes for human editors to review new webpages and add them.

LexisNexis, ingentaconnect, and FindLaw are three examples of services ​, which offer access to specialized information collections.

It is important to review the source of each hit returned by a metasearch engine to eliminate _________________________ listings that might not be the most relevant to your search query.

Two widely used resources for finding information on small and large businesses are Hoover's and Dun & Bradstreet.

FindLaw is a useful portal for finding information about laws and court cases, but is not used for locating an attorney.

The _________________________ operator indicates a keyword that must appear in a search results hit.

The first step in determining the quality of the information on a webpage is to examine its authority.

The more keywords included in a query, the more focused the _________________________ will be.

A search _________________________ uses software called a spider, bot, or web crawler that browses the web, automatically adding the URLs and other information about webpages to a searchable index.

The more ____ used in a query, the more focused the search results will be.