Staying safe online 7: Searching the Web

Which of the following is often used for finding a web page containing certain information?

• web browser

• search term

• search engine

• steam engine

When a user searches using a search engine, what does the search engine actually search?

• the search engine's database

• the whole of the World Wide Web

• page ranking

• spiders or crawlers

A search engine's database includes the first sentence on the page and the date the page was posted. Which two of the following will it also include?

• telephone number

• business address for written correspondence

• web address/URL

• heading/headline for the page

A 'crawler' is a program in a search engine that looks through the text and follows the links on a page and sends details back to the search engine? What other name is used for this?

• caterpillar

• spider

• worm

• creepy crawly

A friend has just published a new website about motocross in the Borders. When you search for motocross Borders, your friend's site doesn't appear in the list of search results. Which three of the following might be reasons for this?

• the site isn't in the search engine's database

• the site isn't very good

• the crawler has never visited the site

• the site isn't linked to by another/many sites

Which of the following are three logical operators?

• PLUS, EITHER, NOT

• AND, EITHER, MINUS

• AND, OR, NOT

• PLUS, OR, NOT