List 4 major search engines and a major directory.
Search engines; Yahoo, Google, Answers.com, Wikipedia, Bing
Major directory;
What is a blog?
Blog is a type of website or part of a website.
Why might you use quotation marks when conducting a search?
If you are searching for something in quotation marks you are searching for that phrase verbatim. If you were to search for "Literacy", you would find a page with that exact text somewhere on it.
URL is an acronym for…
Uniform Resource Locator - I did Google it :)
Identify three Boolean search terms.
I don’t know.
How do you find the owner or publisher of a Web site?
Isn’t it bottom of the page? Like “Simple template by Josh Peterson. Powered by Blogger.”
Identify these extensions and what they represent:
.org - organization .com - company
.sch -school .k12 - schools are using
.edu -education .gov -government
.ac - ? .net - network
.mil - ? .co - company also?
How do you find out who is linked to your school’s Web site?
I have no idea.
What clues in a Web address might indicate you are on a personal Web site?
I don’t know.
How would you conduct a search for the following: a list of Web sites of all the academic institutions in South Africa? (Hint: South Africa’s country code is .za)
I would google it.
How do you find the history of any given Web site?
In the “About us” part?
How would you conduct a search for the following: US higher education Web sites that contain the word turtle?
I don’t know.
How do sites get to the top of a result list in Google?
I think, the popularity of the item searched/ bookmarked/ linked is the factors.
Summary
After taking the quiz and checking my answers, I can tell that I’m somewhere between digital immigrant and digital native. I believe why I couldn’t answer some questions just because I never need to know and use it before. Now, I know where to look for find the owner or publisher of a Web site “www.easywhois.com”.
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