History
How it Works
Environment
Society
Professional/Career
100

The first search engine, created in 1990 before the World Wide Web.

What is Archie?

100

The process of discovering new web pages by following links.

What is crawling?

100

The most widely used search engine, responsible for major energy use.

What is Google?

100

What search engines provide instant access to worldwide.

What is information?

100

Using search engines to learn about job roles and requirements.

What is career research?

200

The McGill University student who created the first Search Engine.

Who is Alan Emtage?

200

Titles, images, and videos processed during indexing.

What are HTML elements?

200

The resource used to cool search engine data centers.

What is water?

200

The massive network that search engines help users navigate.

What is the internet?

200

Job platforms that rely on search engines.

What are LinkedIn and Indeed?

300

The type of sites Archie indexed instead of web pages.

What are anonymous FTP sites?

300

The final step where results are shown on the SERP.

What is serving?

300

The approximate amount of energy used globally by Google Search every second.

What is 10,800 kWh?

300

The primary forms of media that were once used to convey information before the internet.

What are books, encyclopedias, newspapers, and libraries?

300

How businesses promote services through search engines.

What is online advertising?

400

The software required to access the contents Archie listed.

What is an FTP client?

400

The main factor used to match pages to a search query.

What is relevancy?

400

A global issue worsened by emissions from data centers.

What is climate change?

400

An area that benefits when students and learners can quickly find trustworthy information through search engines. 

What is education?

400

The type of benefit businesses gain from strong online visibility.

What is a competitive advantage?

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