Internet Search - BP

Search engines are designed to

_______ and ______ which web

pages you can browse to find information.

• hide

• find

• remember

• delete

What are the TWO most important keywords in the search, "What is the capital of Florida?"

• What

• capital

• is the

• Florida

Which strategy is most likely to

improve a search engine search?

• Only use 1 keyword in your search

• Type the same keywords in a different order

• Ask the same thing in another language

• Add more keywords to search for the information you want

If you accidentally type

chicken noodle soap

into a search engine, which results

are most likely to show?

• Soap that smells like chickens

• Recipes for chicken noodle soup

• Tips for how to wash chickens

• How to cook with soap

What can you conclude about a term that a search engine automatically fills in for you?

• Lots of other people have also been searching for the term recently

• The search engine is smarter than you

• Pirates told Siri to put it there.

• The search engine doesn't have clue what you are looking up

Searching for "outer solar system," with the quotation marks, will give you results that...

• Only shows Star Wars movies

• will have no results at all, the page will be blank

• contain the whole phrase, "outer solar system"

• Only shows videos of solar systems

When typing in what you are searching for, you can use + and - with your keywords . What does using + and - do for your search?

• They help identify important keywords to use and not use

• They erase all keywords

• They search for only math problems

• They pay you money to use those words

Which search terms will return the best hits about Yoda in movies?

Pick 2 answers

• Baby Yoda

• Yoda

• + movies

• -television

Which search term will return results about when George W. Bush was a Texas governor, but not when he was President?

• "George W. Bush" +Texas +President

• George W. Bush as President

• "George W. Bush" +Governor

  -President

• George W. Bush

Web pages near the top of search results

are usually the most:

• likely to be what you are searching for

• likely to be

  old and

  out-of-date websites

• searched for by robots and aliens

• likely to only include TicTok videos