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Search engines

Question 1 of 29

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How is duck duck go different from google or yahoo?

Select one of the following:

  • Google and yahoo are faster

  • Google and yahoo only presents sponsored links

  • Google and yahoo track you searches with the purpose of giving you what you want to see.

  • Google and Yahoo do not track your searches.

Explanation

Question 2 of 29

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Why are you missing things when you search on Google?

Select one of the following:

  • Google is not a good search engine

  • Google is giving you what it thinks you want based on your history

  • Someone has hacked your computer

  • Google doesn't like certain websites

Explanation

Question 3 of 29

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What is meant by the last phrase in this statement?
"The search tools that help us find needles in the digital haystack have become the lenses through which we view the digital landscape. Businesses and governments use them to distort our picture of reality."

Select one of the following:

  • We believe what we want to belive

  • The truth always comes out

  • What businesses and governments let you see online helps you to reach a conclusion on what is true

  • The truth will set you free

Explanation

Question 4 of 29

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What would be a strategy we could use to get more information and perhaps get information business and governments don't want us to have?

Select one of the following:

  • We could always get our information from google

  • We should limit our clicks to the first results in google

  • We should consider other resources of information other than search engines

  • We should allow cookies when we go to websites

Explanation

Question 5 of 29

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What did you need to find something on the internet before there were search engines?

Select one of the following:

  • key words

  • the internet has always had search engines

  • you just need google

  • The web address (the url)

Explanation

Question 6 of 29

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As the web went commercial what appeared to help people find things?

Select one of the following:

  • Google

  • search engines

  • directories (like Yellow Pages)

  • craigslist

Explanation

Question 7 of 29

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What is the difference between a "yellow pages" and our favorite search engine "Google"?

Select one of the following:

  • Google has a directory of sites for you to choose from

  • Google presents its websites in alphabetic order

  • A directory will allow you to choose from websites it has, and it is in alphabetic order

  • A directory finds websites based on key words you enter

Explanation

Question 8 of 29

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How have we given power to our search engine?

Select one of the following:

  • It controls what we like

  • It controls what happens to us

  • It controls the information we recieve

  • It controls our finances

Explanation

Question 9 of 29

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What is the valuable information our search engine is collecting from us?

Select one of the following:

  • Our search and traffic history

  • what degrees we have

  • how many dates we go on

  • when we wake up

Explanation

Question 10 of 29

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How are our searches and traffic history being used against us?

Select one of the following:

  • Search engines use it to determine the advertisement you see

  • search engines send the information to the police

  • search engines save the information

  • the government uses it to check our taxes

Explanation

Question 11 of 29

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What is a sponsored link?

Select one of the following:

  • an advertisement

  • a regular link

  • a video

  • an image

Explanation

Question 12 of 29

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What are the ordinary links that Google searches present?

Select one of the following:

  • Links that are not advertisements

  • Links from advertizers

  • commercials

  • sales

Explanation

Question 13 of 29

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What is “Zyprexa.”?

Select one of the following:

  • A religion

  • A form of martial arts

  • A drug

  • Candy

Explanation

Question 14 of 29

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What was the secret "Eli Lilly and Company" were hiding concerning their great drug "Zyprexa"?

Select one of the following:

  • It was manufactured in china

  • side effects such as causing diabetes

  • It was really just tylenol

  • there was no secret

Explanation

Question 15 of 29

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What are the three things Jen (another name for google or yahoo) is always doing?

Select one of the following:

  • selling to advertizers

  • providing you with links

  • Gather information, make copies, build indexes

  • dreaming

Explanation

Question 16 of 29

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What kind of pages does Jen visit daily?

Select one of the following:

  • encyclopedias

  • other search engines

  • news

  • libraries

Explanation

Question 17 of 29

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Why will Jen decide to visit some sites yearly?

Select one of the following:

  • It does not like them

  • It has not paid its jen subscription

  • It is a seasonal site

  • It has noticed that it rarely changes

Explanation

Question 18 of 29

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Why might Jen not see some pages on the web ever?

Select one of the following:

  • The pages was up for a short time for a specific purpose

  • it is in a foreign language

  • it has obscene content

  • Jen does not work very well

Explanation

Question 19 of 29

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What is meant by Jen "Keep Copies" of websites?

Select one of the following:

  • Copies are printed and sent to Jen's office

  • Jen makes its own version of the site to compete with it

  • Jen downloads a copy of every web page her spider visits

Explanation

Question 20 of 29

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Finish this statement "But caching web pages makes it possible for Jen to have a page that

Select one of the following:

  • is hidden

  • was never on the interent

  • is no longer on the internet

  • should not be on the internet

Explanation

Question 21 of 29

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What is meant by "Bits do not die easily"

Select one of the following:

  • Bits are not alive so they cannot die

  • bits are digital and only need electricity

  • bits of information online can be easily copied to other websites that will keep the information alive even when the original website is gone

  • bits can come back even after they are killed

Explanation

Question 22 of 29

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Describes an index as far as Jen is concerned.

Select one of the following:

  • A list of terms followed by the places they occur.

  • A list of sites

  • categories of sites

  • an encyclopedia

Explanation

Question 23 of 29

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What other information is Jen saving about the text on the web page?

Select one of the following:

  • the size of the font

  • the color of the font

  • the style of the font

  • all of the above

Explanation

Question 24 of 29

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Would Jen provide different results for allergy treatment, if the user types it with quotes such as “allergy treatment"?

Select one of the following:

  • Jen will treat both examples as the same

  • Jen will find more results for “allergy treatment", because she will be looking for the exact term

  • Jen will find less results for “allergy treatment", because she will be looking for the exact term

  • The results for “allergy treatment" will be incorrect

Explanation

Question 25 of 29

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What does relevance mean for search engines?

Select one of the following:

  • results that match the intent of the query (search)

  • links to important sites, like those ending in .gov

  • results that match the intent of advertisers

  • results that match the intent of the government

Explanation

Question 26 of 29

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What is recall for a search engine?

Select one of the following:

  • This is where all relevant documents have been found

  • This is where all relevant documents have been indexed

  • This is where all relevant documents have been presented

  • This is where all relevant documents have been copied

Explanation

Question 27 of 29

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Why is total recall unimportant?

Select one of the following:

  • results would take too long

  • Most users will never look at 1000's of websites

  • some sites are not relevant

Explanation

Question 28 of 29

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What is not included in the relevance calculation?

Select one of the following:

  • the number of times the key words appear in the document

  • whether the key word appear in large text

  • whether the key words appear in the url

  • whether the site is foreign or not

Explanation

Question 29 of 29

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What was one of Google's innovation?

Select one of the following:

  • Page rank

  • releavance

  • recall

  • total recall

Explanation

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