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Unit 3 Competency 1 Finding Information on the Web Directions: You will learn how to find information on the web. Answer all questions below. There are 30 questions in this activity. 1. Save this document in your directory as Finding_Information_on_the_Web_1st initial and last name. (ex.: Finding_Information_on_the_Web_JSmith) 2. Hold the Ctrl key and left click the hyperlinked word(s) – blue words that are underlined – or the web address to visit the websites. 3. You can key your answer or copy/paste. Question/Hyperlinks Your Answer/Response 1. See how the Web works. Click on the start button and then next to answer the following questions: a. To access a website, your first enter its address, called a ______________, in the Address box of your browser. b. The http:// indicates that the browser and web server will communicate using______________________. c. The www indicates a resource is on the _________________. d. The learnthenet.com, called a _______________, identifies which computer, called a web server, hosts the site. e. Your web browser sends the request to the appropriate _____________ on the Internet. f. The web server locates the files, then ____________ them to your computer. g. Your web browser assembles the page on your __________. 1a. URL (Uniform Resource Locator) b. Hypertext Transfer Protocol c. World Wide Web d. domain name e. web server f. downloads g. screen 2. A web browser is the software program you use to access the ____________________. World Wide Web 3. Although many different browsers are available, ______________, _____________, and ___________ are most popular. Microsoft Internet Explorer, Firefox, Netscape Navigator 4. Learn about the toolbar of a web browser. Answer the following questions: a. The _______ button (the arrow pointing to the left) returns you the previous web page you've visited. b. Use the _________ button to return to the page you just came from. c. ______ takes you to whichever home page you've chosen. (If you haven't selected one, it will return you to the default home page, usually the Microsoft, Netscape or Google website.) d. ________ or ________does just that, loads the web page again. Why would you want to do this? Sometimes all of the elements of a web page haven't loaded the first time, because the file transfer was interrupted. e. _______ lets you make a hard copy of the current page loaded in your browser. f. If you can't connect to a site or if the page is loading very slowly, use the _______ button and try again later, especially if you are trying to access a popular site. g. _________ or __________ lets you can record the addresses of 1 a. back b. forward c. home d. reload, refresh e. print f. stop g. bookmarks, favorites Unit 3 Competency 1 websites you want to revisit. 5. At the bottom of your web browser you'll find the __________. You can watch the progress of web page transactions, such as the address of the site you are contacting, whether the host computer has been contacted and the size and number of the files to be downloaded. 6. On the simplest level, the Web physically consists of your ____________, web browser software, a connection to an ___________ service provider, computers called _________ that host digital data and routers and switches to direct the flow of information. 7. The "glue" that holds the Web together is called ________ and __________. This feature allows electronic files on the Web to be linked so you can jump easily between them. 8. Web pages are written in a computer language called _________________ or __________. 9. Each web page has a unique address, called a ______ or _________________ that identifies where it's located on the network. 10. A __________ has one or more related web pages, depending on how it's designed. 11. When you browse the World Wide Web you’ll see the term home page often. Think of a home page as the __________ of a website. status bar personal computer, Internet, servers hypertext, hyperlinks Hypertext Markup Language, HTML URL, Uniform Resource Locator website starting point 12. How can you tell which text are links? ________ appear in a different color from the rest of the text--typically in blue and often underlined. 13. Learn about the Anatomy of a URL. Answer the following questions: a. http:// -- Short for Hypertext Transfer Protocol, this indicates a __________ or _____________. b. www. -- This indicates a page on the ___________. (These days, the "www" is optional.) c. learnthenet.com/ -- Called the ___________, it often indicates the name of a company, university, or organization. It can also tell you the country of origin. d. www.learnthe net.com/ -- Together, these indicate the ___________ name. 14. You enter the URL of a site or web page by typing it into the ______________ of your web browser. text links 15. A URL usually has no ___________. A URL always uses ___________ slashes (//). spaces, forward 16. Identify the following solutions to these Error Messages: a. 400-Bad Request There’s something wrong with the address you entered. b. 401-Unauthorized You can’t access a website because you’re not on the guest list, your password is invalid or you have entered your password incorrectly. c. 404-Not Found Either the web page no longer exists on the server or it 2 a. b. c. d. Web document, directory World Wide Web domain name web server address bar a. Check the address carefully, especially if the address is long. Make sure that the slashes are correct (they should be forward slashes) and that all the names are properly spelled. b. If you think you have authorization, Unit 3 Competency 1 is nowhere to be found. 17. Do you think you know Web basics? Find out by taking the quick quiz. Key your score in the answer column. 18. See how the search engines works. Click on the start button and then next to answer the following questions: a. Search engines use software called __________, which comb the Internet look for documents and their Web addresses. b. The documents and Web addresses are collected and sent to the search engine’s _________ software. c. The indexing software extracts information from the documents, storing it in a __________. The kind of information indexed depends on the particular _______________. Some index every word in a document; others index the document title only. d. When you perform a search by entering keywords, the database is searched for documents that _________. e. The search engine assembles a _____________ that lists the results as hypertext links. 19. You've probably heard of ________________ such as Yahoo!, Google, and Ask.com. There are literally dozens of these tools to help you locate what you're looking for. 20. Search engines break down into two types: _____________ and _______________. 21. Directories, such as Yahoo, are good at identifying _________________. Like a card catalog in a library, they classify websites into categories, such as accounting firms, English universities and natural history museums. The results of your search will be a list of websites related to your ______________. 22. But what if you want specific information, such as biographical information about Leonardo da Vinci? _______________ are the way to go, because they search all the contents of a website. Indexes use software programs called ___________ and _____________ that scour the Internet analyzing billions of web pages, newsgroup and blog postings, and indexing all of the words. 23. Indexes like __________ and MSN Search identify the text on individual pages of a website that match your search criteria, even if the site itself has nothing to do with what you are looking for. You can often find unexpected gems of information this way, but be prepared to wade through a lot of __________ information too. 3 try typing your password again. Remember that passwords are case sensitive. c. Check the address carefully and try entering it again. You might also see if the site has a search engine. If so, use it to hunt for the document. (It's not uncommon for pages to change their addresses when a website is redesigned.) Scores will vary a. spiders b. indexing c. database, search engine d. match e. web page search engines directories, indexes general information, search term Web indexes, spiders, robots Google, irrelevant Unit 3 Competency 1 24. Search results are usually ranked in order of ____________--the number of times your search term appears in a document--or how closely the document appears to match a concept you have entered. 25. Because there is so much information online, usually you will want to limit the scope of your searches. How do you do this? This is a good point to digress to talk about _____________ operators. 26. Boolean logic uses words called operators to determine whether a statement is true or false. The most common operators are ______, _____ and _____. These three little words can be enormously helpful when doing online searches. 27. Capital Sensitivity--If a search keyword is __________, the search engine will return only documents containing the capitalized word. 28. When using search terms containing more than one word, enclosing them in _______________, returns documents containing the exact phrase only. 29. Some engines offer a variation of the Boolean operators AND and NOT. A ________ symbol preceding a word (with no space between) requires that the word be present in documents. A ________ symbol preceding a keyword ensures that the word is not present in returned documents. 30. Try your luck at the Net Hunt 1.0. It’s not what you know, but knowing how to find the information you need. Use the Search box to help you find the answers. Key your score in the answer column. 4 relevancy Boolean And, or, not capitalized quotation marks +, - Scores will vary