Internet Communication

What is a search engine?

• A software program that helps people find the information they are looking for online using keywords or phrases.

• A web-based tool that enables users to locate information on the World Wide Web.

• A hardware accessed on the Internet that searches a database of information according to the user's query.

• Allow users to search the internet for content using keywords.

Search engines are able to return results quickly—even with millions of websites online—by scanning the Internet continuously and indexing every page they find. True or False?

• True

• False

Searches always return the results that we are looking for.

• True

• False

Which of the following is not a Search Engine?

• Swisscows

• Bing

• Adobe

• DuckDuckGo

Different users will have different search engines habits. Do you agree? Yes or no.

• Yes

• No

There are 2 common ways to conduct a search. What are they?

• Inserting the images into the address bar.

• Using the search box in the search engine itself.

• Typing the term into the address bar of the browser

• Clicking on enter when you to conduct the search.

When was the first website launched?

• 1980

• 1986

• 1992

• 1991

Which was the 1st Search Engine in history?

• Bing

• Yahoo!

• Google

• Safari

The number of websites grew every year. True or False?

• True

• False

Indexes and indexing are not derived from the idea of encyclopedia. True or False?

• True

• False