USING SEARCH ENGINES
                            W12c Review

Answers are at the end of the document.

1. Using lower-case letters in the search window of most search 
engines, what case or cases are matched in the documents being 
searched? ______________

2. What is the effect of putting "quotes" around a phrase in many 
search engines? 
__________________________________________________

3. When using search engines to search for multiple words (not in 
quotes), what effect does the order of the words have? 
__________________________________________________

4. What are some steps you can take if a Search engine returns no 
"hits" in response to your query? 

5. Can search engines ever return too much information? In what 
way?

6. Explain "Boolean search" found in the "advanced" section of 
some search engines.







































ANSWERS

1: both (upper and lower case)

2: the phrase is treated as a group, rather than as individual 
words

3: Documents with words in the same grouping are listed first, 
but all documents with any words in the search list will be 
returned.

4:  Check your spelling, try another search engine, use fewer 
words in a quoted query, use more words in an unquoted query. 

5: If a lot of "hits" are returned, you may not have time to 
check them all.

6: Boolean searches make use of the three Boolean operators: AND, 
OR, NOT, which allow you to specify more precisely what you are 
looking for.