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When searching for information, such as an email address or telephone number, it is more efficient to use a specialized directory, such as an online white pages directory or ____ directory.

A) stop word
B) primary source
C) search query
D) yellow pages

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Bot is short for _________________________.

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_________________________ provides information services to the business, scientific, engineering, financial, and legal communities over the Internet or an internal intranet.

Surround keywords with _________________________ when the keywords must appear together as a phrase.

To locate needed information more quickly, use the ____ to perform a keyword search on a page.

White pages and yellow pages directories include resources, such as Pipl and Wink, for a fee.

Modified True/False Shopping search engines are also known as shopping bots or shopping  wikis .  ______________________

Critical Thinking Questions Case 3-1 Your best friend is a social studies teacher at the neighborhood middle school. He asks you to recommend a general-purpose search engine for his personal online research and a specialty search tool that is appropriate for his students to use in the classroom for their online research projects. Which of the following search tools is the better choice for the teacher's students to use in the classroom?

Briefly describe the Find bar and discuss the elements of the Internet Explorer Find bar.

To quickly display the Find bar in Internet Explorer or Chrome press the ____ key combination.

Reviewing a search engine's _________________________ feature can provide insight for using the search engine and its special features more effectively.

Keywords are entered in a ____ text box or in the Address box.

The more keywords included in a query, the more focused the _________________________ will be.

When searching for a phrase, most search tools allow you to surround the keywords with parentheses.

Examples of ____ include what, where, is, the, of, in, and how.

A ____ is a human-compiled, hierarchical list of webpages organized by category.

A search _________________________ uses software called a spider, bot, or web crawler that browses the web, automatically adding the URLs and other information about webpages to a searchable index.

A completed search query can be reviewed to learn how to create similar searches by typing shortcuts and Boolean operators directly in the search engine's search ____ as shown in the accompanying figure.

A(n) _________________________ search query seeks specific information using keyword combinations.

A ____ is a specific word that describes the information you seek.