Chapter 5

Which research practice will help ensure that highly reliable information is obtained?

all of the above

Identify a method used to find authoritative information

choose information from respected organizations

A search engine consists partly of a:

crawler and a query processor

If quotes surround the search phrase, "human powered flight," the search would find pages associated with the:

exact phrase human powered flight

A search using the logical operator OR requires:

one of the words to be found on the page

Which search technique will help avoid over constraining?

Begin with an inclusive search and add more words one at a time

Which of the following is an effective technique in using the hit list?

Skim top-level information and decide which links to explore further

One example of descriptive text is anchor text, which is:

highlighted link text, specified inside <a...> tags, describing the page to which it links

In a Web search, a match to a query is known as a(n):

hit

A weakness of Wikipedia is that:

the content is not validated by experts