Chapter test: Search Engines and Search Operators

10 questions

1Shodhganga, the repository of Indian doctoral theses, is maintained by: ANCERT BINFLIBNET CAICTE DNAAC

2The automated program that visits web pages and follows links to collect information for a search engine is called a: ACrawler or spider BCompiler CFirewall DBrowser

3To search for an exact phrase, the search terms should be enclosed in: AParentheses BSquare brackets CQuotation marks DCurly braces

4The part of the web that is not indexed by search engines, such as e-mail inboxes and password-protected databases, is known as the: ASurface Web BDeep Web CDark Web DIntranet

5Consider: 1. Adding more search operators generally narrows the results. 2. The OR operator broadens the results. 3. Quotation marks search for the words in any order. Which are correct? A1 and 2 only B2 and 3 only C1 and 3 only D1, 2 and 3

6Which search operator is used to restrict results to a single website or domain? Ainurl: Bsite: Crelated: Dintitle:

7An officer wants only PDF copies of office memoranda on leave travel concession from a particular government website. Which query is most appropriate? Aleave travel concession office memorandum pdf Bsite:example.gov.in "leave travel concession" filetype:pdf Csite: example.gov.in leave travel concession filetype: pdf Drelated:example.gov.in leave travel concession

8What is the correct order of the three stages of a search engine? AIndexing, crawling, ranking BCrawling, indexing, ranking CRanking, crawling, indexing DCrawling, ranking, indexing

9When a query is typed, a search engine actually searches: AThe entire internet at that moment BIts own previously built index of crawled pages COnly government websites DThe browser history of the user

10An assistant searching for registrar gets many results about film registrars. Which query best excludes the unwanted results? Aregistrar + film Bregistrar -film Cregistrar OR film Dregistrar "film"

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