Lesson 2

Question 1

What is the difference between a search engine and an internet browser?

Answer 1

Internet browsers are tools used to connect to the internet from a device. Search engines are tools within the browser to find information stored on the internet

Question 2

What search engines do browsers prefer?

Answer 2

Google Chrome prefers Google. Internet Explorer prefers Bing. Microsoft Edge prefers Bing. Safari prefers Google.

Question 3

What are common search engines and academic search engines

Answer 3

Common: Google, Bing, Yahoo Academic: Refseek, Seek Education, VirtualLRC.com

Question 4

What is a metasearch engine?

Answer 4

A search engine used to search several search engines at once such as Duckduckgo.com, Search.com, Dogpile.com

Question 5

What are the 5 different ways search engines perform similar tasks?

Answer 5

Crawl, Index, Match, Locate, Display

Question 6

Define crawl

Answer 6

automated spiders systematically browse websites and build lists of keywords

Question 7

What is a bibliography?

Answer 7

An alphabetical list of sources used for a research project

Question 8

What is research database?

Answer 8

Provides organized information about related subjects

Question 9

What is Boolean logic?

Answer 9

Uses the operators and, or, and not to get more exact search results

Question 10

What is a keyword search?

Answer 10

Uses specific terms to search databases

Question 11

What is plain language search?

Answer 11

The most common way to search any website or search engine; consists of a simple word, phrase, or question

Question 12

What is a biased source?

Answer 12

Prejudiced in favor of or against one thing, person or group usually in a way that’s considered unfair

Question 13

What is a reliable source?

Answer 13

A source that’s consistently good in quality and can be trusted

Question 14

What is worldcat and what is it used for?

Answer 14

An international database of libraries and their catalogs that have registered with worldcat

Question 15

Which symbols are used in a truncation search?

Answer 15

?*$!#

Question 16

What are “wildcards” and why would you use them?

Answer 16

?!$# but they only replace ONE LETTER of a word. Still used in words that are spelled different but mean the same thing.

Question 17

Why would plus (+) and minus (-) be used in an internet search?

Answer 17

\+ = Searches for both words on either side of the mark and not just the two words combined but also separately to widen the search
- = the word following the mark is to be excluded from the search

Question 18

What are databases and what are they used for?

Answer 18

They search only information contained within the database

Question 19

What is Boolean logic and which words are used in Boolean searches?

Answer 19

Uses operators such as and, or, and not to provide a more specific search

Question 20

Why should you have a library card?

Answer 20

You can access online databases, place holds on materials, provide the library with purchasing suggestions for future materials, you can request resources via interlibrary login

Question 21

What is Power Search and what kind of searches can it perform?

Answer 21

A tool that searches access all of the library’s subscription Gale databases to access it.

Question 22

List some examples of keyword searches

Answer 22

Passport renewal, how do I get a passport?, where are passports issued?