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Lexie's father is turning 50 in a couple weeks. She wants to mark the day with a very special gift. Her father is a huge baseball fan, so she decides to get him an autographed baseball. But not just any baseball--she wants one autographed by someone from their hometown team that was playing in the majors when her father was born. -Lexie has found a Web site listing the baseball players she was looking for. But she wants to make sure that the information is accurate. Which of the following is NOT a way to help evaluate this?

A) evaluating the Web page's authorship
B) evaluating the Web page's content
C) evaluating the Web page's appearance
D) evaluating the Web page's meta tags

E) A) and B)
F) None of the above

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Meta tag text does appear on a Web page when a Web browser loads it. _________________________

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B) False

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When performing a basic search with Bing, you first type in your search expression and then click a button to begin the search; when performing a basic search with Google, you ____.

A ____ operator lets you search for terms that appear close to each other in the text of a Web page.

An exploratory question is an open-ended question that can be harder to phrase than a specific one.

A basic search page includes a ____ box for entering a search expression and a command button to begin the search.

One team working at the University of ____ has created an experimental Web site that allows visitors to search the deep Web. The home page of this site is called DeepPeep.

Boolean operators are also known as tertiary operators. _________________________

Clicking a ____ takes you to a Web page that no longer exists or has been moved.

Clustering is an effective tool when a word in a search expression has multiple meanings.

A search engine searches ____ to find a match for the query.

Esteban is studying the various ways of searching for information on the Internet. He has asked you to come over and help quiz him, and you've agreed. -You tell Esteban that he needs to use the Internet to find the data of the first moon landing by U.S. astronauts. Since this is a very simple, specific question to ask, you tell him that he should use the most basic Web search tool available to find a Web site with the answer. You ask him what that is, and he replies, ____.

All of the following are Web search tools EXCEPT ____.

A spider is a program that automatically searches the Web to find new Web sites.

In Boolean algebra (named after British mathematician George Boole), all values are reduced to one of two values.

If, while performing a search on a specific question, you find that you're heading in the wrong direction, the text describes this as encountering a(n) ____.

Although no major search engine has yet been able to make a truly successful natural language query interface, the mathematical software company ____ has a Web site that offers a natural language interface to a database of collected facts.

A major component of all Web pages, which can be used to evaluate the quality of the page, is the Web page's ____.

A good example of an exploratory question would be, "____".

A(n) ____ operator clarifies the grouping within a complex Boolean expression and is usually indicated by the parentheses symbols.