Quiz 3: Searching and Metasearching

These quizzes are your tools to determine whether you've learned the material – 
they aren't grades that go to the instructor.

True or false?
1. Spiders and bots assign keywords to the web pages they find.   True   False
2. Stop words include words such as "the," "a," "above," "an," and "in."   True   False
3. Metatags are multiple tags within an HTML document.   True   False
4. The search expression "NASA PHOTOS AND "STAR" NOT "TREK" should result in hits with all the words included on every page found: "NASA," "PHOTOS," "STAR" and "TREK"   True   False
5. The example above demonstrates nested Boolean logic.   True   False
6. To find sites about the rock group Pearl Jam, you should structure your search like this: PEARL AND JAM   True   False
7. The search engine process that returns just one instance of each web page is called "duplicate detection."   True   False
8. Returning hits on a topic and including links to similar, but different keywords is called "proximity searching."   True   False
9. Truncation will allow you to find the word "forms" if you do a search for "form."   True   False
10. If you don't type anything between two keywords (MIGRAINE HEADACHE for example), the search engine will assume you want to find pages with EITHER migraine OR headache in them.   True   False

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