Search

What does the acronym 'URL' stand for?

• Universal Resource Locator

• Uniform Resource Locator

• Uniform Resource Listing

• Universal Resource Listing

Which search engine owns the web browser Mozilla Firefox?

• Google

• Bing

• Microsoft

• Yahoo

What is the name of the algorithm that powers Google Search?

• RankingSearch

• RaiSearch

• PageRank

• RankSearch

What is a query in information retrieval?

• A type of database

• A branch of mathematics

• A document on a website

• A request for information

When a query produces too many results, search engines can use ______ to narrow the number of results.

• natural language processing

• popularity analysis

• faceted search

• geolocation

What type of search accommodates typos, misspellings and alternative spellings?

• Image search

• Comparative search

• Fuzzy search

• Stemming

Which of these is an example of a specialty search engine?

• Bing

• Exalead

• Google Search

• Dogpile

What is a query operator used to exclude certain words from the search query?

• NOT

• AND

• XOR

• OR

What does a hierarchical search involve?

• Categories and subcategories

• Fuzzy search

• Pattern matching

• Individual words

Which of these is used to search information in databases?

• Description logic

• Natural language processing

• Query language

• Search engine