Search Engines, Digital Literacy & Data

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What is an advantage of using the internet for research?

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It is easy to access current information very quickly

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Automatically browses the web and stores information about the pages it visits. Every time it visits a webpage, it makes a copy of it and adds its URL to an index. Once this is done, it follows all the links on the page, repeating the process of copying, indexing and then following the links. It keeps doing this, building up a huge index of many web pages as it goes.

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web crawler or spider

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If a website blocks webcrawlers from visiting, will it be added to the index of web pages?

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no

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A program that allows you to search the Internet for information.

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Search Engine

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This type of search engine has the ability to search several search engines at one time.

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Metasearch engine

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What does it take to publish a website?

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A credit card, a domain name, and a site builder

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A commercial website.

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.com

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United States Government Website. Options: .com, .gov, .edu, .org

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.gov

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Website affiliated with an educational institution.

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.edu

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Website that is usually associated with a non profit. Options: .com, .gov, .edu, .org

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.org