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100
ISP (Internet Service Provider
What is a paid connection to the internet?
100
A piece of equipment that connects a computer to the internet.
What is a modem?
100
A software application used to send and retrieve information on the Internet.
What is a browser?
100
An item on a Web page that links to another web page.
What is a hyperlink?
100
A web page that contains information in many forms.
What is multimedia pages?
200
A large data base used to look for information on the internet.
What is a search engine?
200
The slowest and least expensive type of modem.
What is a telephone modem?
200
This connection relies on POTS.
What is a dial-up connection?
200
POTS
What is Plain Old Telephone Service?
200
Dial Up modems connect at this speed.
What is 56 thousand bits per second (56kbps)
300
The connection is always on, uses digital technology, do not interfere with telephone service, faster than POTS.
What is DSL (Digital Subscriber Line)?
300
Uses a TV cable to connect to the internet.
What is a cable modem?
300
Uses a satellite dish to connect to the internet.
What is a satellite modem?
300
A search engine that is like an enormous spider which crawls the web looking for information.
What is Google?
300
Words a search engine uses in its search for relevant web pages.
What are keywords?
400
Searches that allow you to indicate exactly what you want the engine to search for and what you want it to ignore?
What is an advanced search?
400
Named after the nineteenth-century mathematician.
What is Boolean logic?
400
A form of algebra in which all values are reduced to true or false.
What is Boolean Logic?
400
Boolean operators.
What phrases or symbols used for searching?
400
Boolean operators used that include two or more keywords.
What is And, +, &?
500
Boolean operators that search for web pages with one or both keywords.
What is OR, ^?
500
Boolean operators that find results with one but not another keyword.
What is NOT,-?
500
To find information from a specific web site.
What is term plus web site? "pet care" www.hsus.org?
500
Who wrote the information.
What is authorship?
500
Determining if someone is wanting you to purchase their product or whether the information is biased.
What is sponsorship or publishing?
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