This ancient counting device is part of the history of humankind's search to rapidly calculate--something the Internet does very quickly. It is probably of Babylonian origin, and it's still used in many places, including China.
What is an abacus?
100
This word means "the most important words you use to perform a search in a database or on the Internet."
What are keywords?
100
This is the field of study that made George Boole famous.
What is mathematics?
100
This is a word--similar to a keyword--that describes what you're searching for.
What is a subject or a subject heading?
100
This is that the letters "www" stand for.
What is World Wide Web?
200
One of the first large-scale computer networks--ARPANET--was used for this purpose.
What is the military?
200
True or False: The best way to get exactly what you want on the Internet or in a database is to type in the whole sentence that describes what you're looking for.
What is False?
200
Boole named 3 "operators" that can be used to apply to logic problems that relate pieces or sets of information to other pieces or sets of information. Name the 3 Boolean operators.
What are "and," "or," and "not?"
200
This is the best way to ensure that you have found the highest quality research materials.
What is use different types of sources?
200
This is what the term "url" stands for. It's another way of saying "the website's address."
What is Uniform Resource Locator?
300
True or False: technologies such as telephones, radios, and televisions helped along the development of the Internet.
What is True?
300
What Boolean operator does a search engine automatically insert between 2 words that are next to each other?
What is "AND."
300
This is the way you represent the "not" operator in a search engine.
What is, by using the "-" sign NEXT TO the word you want to eliminate?
300
True or false: the search "animals" is a narrow search.
What is False?
300
The http:// part of a web address stands for the words "hyper text transfer _____." Fill in the missing word.
What is "protocol?"
400
Early Internet users needed to use one of these devices to translate a telephone signal into a signal that could access computer networks.
What is a modem?
400
You do this if you want to search in a search engine for an exact name or expression just as it appears, such as World Wildlife Fund.
What is put quotation marks around the phrase "World Wildlife Fund?"
400
These 2 Boolean operators make a search result larger.
What are "and" and "or ?"
400
True or false: the search string "endangered water mammals Florida" will produce a fairly narrow search.
What is True?
400
There are 3 words that sound alike but are spelled differently. Only one of them refers to a web location. The words are cite, site, and sight. Choose the correct word.
What is site?
500
This company produced the first successful personal computer for home use.
What is Apple Computer Company?
500
Google feels that its algorithm for searching is so accurate that the first 10 results will be the best matches for your search. Name the term for Google's brand of returning search results.
What is relevance ranking?
500
This one Boolean operator makes a search result narrower, or more specific.
What is "NOT?"
500
This might happen if you use a single-word search, such as "tigers?"
What is, get results that don't match what you're thinking of--such as Detroit in addition to wild tigers?
500
The name of the search engine "Google" is supposedly the misspelling of a mathematical number. Name and spell that number.