CIW Lesson 6 - Part B
What do you need to do to evaluate the accuracy and value of information you have found on the Internet?
Discern between fact and opinion.
Excite
Search engine that allows both keyword and conceptual searches.
Search engine that ranks the relevance of a particular site according to the keywords entered by the user and it's relevance based on the number of links that point to it.
Bing
Search engine that use your keywords you're searching into queries to find more relevant information.
Yahoo
Search engine that was originally intended to be an index providing several links relating to topics on the Internet that were of interest. Directory search.
How are search engines useful to perform job tasks?
Search engines are useful for finding any type of data you need from the Internet.
Zotero
Software that organizes the information you find and store it on your local hard drive.
Boolean operator
Symbol or word used in web searches to narrow search results.
In which instance would using an advanced web search technique be most appropriate?
When conducting an Internet search for a complex subject, or to narrow the results of a standard search.
What is an example of an open-peer reviewed source?
Wikipedia
What can you use to help you determine how closely a site matches the topic for which you are searching?
A relevancy score based on how frequently your specified keywords are found in the site.
What is an example of a secondary resource?
Biographies
NOT
Boolean operator that excludes keyword(s) that you specify.
(Parenthesis)
Boolean operator that indicates the order of multiple Boolean operators.
"Quotation Marks"
Boolean operator that is used to narrow your search to yield Web pages that contain only the keywords as they appear together in the specified order.
AND
Boolean operator that specifies the search engine to include both keywords specified in your search.
OR
Boolean operator that specifies the search engine to search one keyword or the other or both indicated in your search.
How do error pages occur?
By clicking a dead link.
How do unexpected Web pages and advertisements occur?
By clicking a link for a site that was added to a search engine's database by its spider program.
What is an example of a popular resource?
Newsweek
When specifying keywords to conduct an Internet search, which of the following parts of speech will be most useful?
Nouns
Open peer-reviewed resource
Online resource in which content is subject to review by anyone.
Authoritative peer-reviewed resource
Online resource that accepts input only from scholars and recognized authorities.
What are examples of primary sources?
Physical objects and relics.
What is the purpose to cite information you obtain from an Internet search?
To avoid plagiarizing someone else's work.
Which of the following general rules should you follow when entering keywords in search engines?
Use UPPERCASE letters when typing Boolean operators.
