Deck 2: Constructing Complex Searches

Question 1

Whenever you connect keywords in your search with AND you are commanding the search engine to find either of the keywords on a web page.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Since search engines handle large amounts of data, most of them do not support Boolean logic or complex query statements.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

When included in your search, Boolean operators act like commands to the search engine.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Some search engines allow OR searching via pull-down menus or check boxes with words like "any of the words" or "some of the words".

Question 5

Some search engines allow AND searching with check boxes or pull-down menus with words like "must include" or "must contain".

Question 6

Some search engines allow AND NOT searching via pull-down menus or check boxes with words like "with the words" or "must include".

Question 7

A good time to include OR is when your initial search finds too many results.

Question 8

A way to visualize how Boolean operators work is by using drawings called Venn diagrams.

Question 9

Each time you add OR to your search, you are expanding the search to include more Web pages.

Question 10

In a Venn diagram, the section where two circles overlap is called the union of the two sets.

Question 11

Use the AND NOT operator if your initial search returns too many irrelevant results.

Question 12

You use the AND operator to combine synonyms.

Question 13

Forcing the order of operation means that you use quotation marks in your search in order to command the search engine to look at the words inside the quotation marks.

Question 14

AND NOT broadens your search so that you find more pages than if you hadn't used it.

Question 15

The best time to use AND is when your initial search found too few results.

Question 16

Each time you add the operator AND to your search you are narrowing the search.

Question 17

A search engine usually reads your search query from right to left.

Question 18

The Boolean term that many search engines automatically use for your query is called the default operator.

Question 19

Boolean operators indicate how the different keywords relate to each other in a search query.

Question 20

Whenever you connect keywords in your search with OR, you are commanding the search engine to find both of the keywords together on a Web page.

Question 21

Combining Boolean operators and filters is made easy from Advanced search pages.

Question 22

The last two or three letters in a URL is the domain.

Question 23

Using AND NOT is one way to focus your search.

Question 24

Combining keywords with OR should retrieve more relevant results.

Question 25

Boolean operators can be typed in all capital letters or not, depending on the search.

Question 26

Before you type your search query, you can choose filters to block out large areas of the Web from you search.

Question 27

Venn diagrams do not represent the use of filters.

Question 28

To search for solar panels on Google's Advanced Search form, you would enter "-solar-panels".

Question 29

When you have trouble remembering how Boolean operators work, quickly sketching a Venn diagram representing your keywords can be very helpful.

Question 30

Individual U.S. states and countries other than the U.S. use two letter domains.

Question 31

John Venn and George Boole were English mathematicians who developed Venn diagrams and Boolean logic to be used for online searching.

Question 32

Boolean operators are one syntax search engines understand.

Question 33

If you narrow your search it means you should have fewer results returned.

Question 34

Three letter domains in the U.S. indicate the type of organization hosting the site, such as .org and .com.

Question 35

You can perform a search with more Boolean operators from an Advanced search page than from the Basic search page.

Question 36

Using AND in your search can force a search engine to look for stop words.

Question 37

Filters can only narrow a search.

Question 38

Filters can focus a search.

Question 39

In a URL the country code is always three letters, like .fra for France, or .gbr for Great Britain.

Question 40

A good way to remember what searches you have performed and where is to keep a search log during a project.

Question 41

A search engine's ____________________ pages are a good place to find out how to search that tool effectively.

Question 42

Whenever you connect keywords in your search with OR, you are commanding the search engine to find ____________________ of the keywords.

Question 43

A mathematical syntax that a search engine can use to perform searches is called ____________________ logic.

Question 44

Three common Boolean operators are _____________, _____________, and _____________.

Question 45

The area where sets overlap is called the ____________________ of the sets.

Question 46

The Boolean operator that a search engine automatically supplies in your search query is the ____________________ operator.

Question 47

Most search engines will allow the symbols + and - instead of the words AND and AND NOT.

Question 48

The + (plus sign) is sometimes used for the Boolean operator ____________________.

Question 49

Metasearch engines allow you to search multiple search engines simultaneously.

Question 50

"Must include" or "must contain" are alternate ways of expressing the Boolean operator ____________________.

Question 51

When you use the Boolean symbols + and -, you should not leave a space between the symbol and the word it is connecting to the search.

Question 52

Each time you add AND to a search you are ____________________ the search.

Question 53

"All of the words" is another way of expressing the Boolean operator ____________________.

Question 54

A way to visualize how Boolean operators work is using drawings called ____________________ diagrams.

Question 55

The best time to use AND is when your initial search finds too ____________________ results.

Question 56

Whenever you connect keywords in your search with AND, you are commanding the search engine to find ____________________ of the keywords on every Web page it returns.

Question 57

When using Advanced search pages you don't need to type in the Boolean operators because they are assumed.

Question 58

It is a good idea to make a habit of using the + sign in front of words in phrases when you put a phrase in the OR search text box on an Advanced search page.

Question 59

Complex queries are sometimes called _______________________.

Question 60

Although a metasearch engine can do many parallel searches, it is actually accessing less of the Web than single search engines.

Question 61

Non-profit Web pages often end in ____________________.

Question 62

Each time you add ____________________ to your search, you are expanding the search to include more Web pages.

Question 63

University domains often end in ____________________.

Question 64

The AND NOT operator ____________________ your search.

Question 65

Using parentheses ____________________ the order of operation in your search query.

Question 66

"Must not include" is an alternate way of expressing the Boolean operator ____________________.

Question 67

Government Web pages often end in ____________________.

Question 68

A search engine normally reads a query from ____________________ to ____________________.

Question 69

A good time to use OR is when your initial search finds too ____________________ results.

Question 70

"At least one of the words" is an alternate way of expressing the Boolean operator ____________________.

Question 71

"Without the words" is another way of expressing the Boolean operator ____________________.

Question 72

The ___________________ copy is a copy of the Web page that Ixquick has made. It is not the original, but can be useful if the original site is down.

Question 73

The OR operator is often used to combine ____________________.

Question 74

You may need to use ____________________ around groups of words when creating searches that contain more than one Boolean operator.

Question 75

"Any of the words" is another way of expressing the Boolean operator ____________________.

Question 76

A(n) ____________________ is a program that a search engine uses to screen out Web pages.

Question 77

If you use ____________________ in your search, the keyword that follows will not appear on any of the Web pages returned.

Question 78

Metasearch engines do not search the Web itself, but other search engines' _________.

Question 79

The - (minus sign) is a variation of the Boolean operator ____________________.

Question 80

Web sites located in countries other than the United States end in ____________________ letter country codes.