world wide web midterm – Flashcards

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All of the following buttons can be found on the Firefox Navigation toolbar EXCEPT ____.
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Firefox
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A text file that contains HTML tags is called an HTML ____.
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document
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The two most common transfer protocols used on the Internet are File Transfer Protocol and Hexadecimal Transfer Protocol.
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False
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In Internet Explorer, the Favorites Center has three tabs: Favorites, ____, and History.
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Feeds
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You use the ____ to enter URLs directly into Firefox.
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Location bar
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In Internet Explorer, click the Print button on the Favorites bar to print the current Web page with the default print settings
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False
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When you are using InPrivate Browsing, the "InPrivate is turned on" page displays in the browser window, the InPrivate label is on the page tab, and the InPrivate indicator appears ____ the Address bar.
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to the left of
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Firefox stores a copy of every Web page it displays on your computer's hard drive in a(n) Temporary Internet Files folder
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True
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The HTML ____ tag enables Web designers to link HTML documents to each other.
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anchor
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In Internet Explorer, press ____ to open the Help window.
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F1
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Hypertext links also are called hyperlinks or links.
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True
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Your browser stores the location of each Web page you visit during a single session in a(n) ____.
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history list
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The text describes ____ different definitions for the term "home page."
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three
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U.S. copyright law has a fair use provision that allows a limited amount of copyrighted information to be used for purposes such as news reporting, research, and scholarship
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True
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In Firefox, to save just an image from a Web page, first you ____ the image.
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right-click
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The Address bar is located in the Internet Explorer ____ toolbar.
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Navigation
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When you hover your mouse pointer over a hyperlink, the pointer changes to a(n) ____.
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hand with a finger pointing
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A(n) ____ is a small file that a Web server writes to the disk drive of the client computer, containing information about the user.
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cookie
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In Internet Explorer, click the Print button on the Favorites bar to print the current Web page with the default print settings.
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False
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The HTML hyper tag enables Web designers to link HTML documents to each other.
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False
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Internet Explorer offers a(n) Retry button to load a new copy of the Web page that currently appears in the browser window.
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False
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The history list, which you open by clicking the History tab in the ____ Center, is useful when you know you visited a site recently, but you did not create a favorite and you cannot recall the URL of the site.
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Favorites
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When computer networks are connected to each other, the system is called a(n) ____.
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internet
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The menu bar is hidden by default in Internet Explorer.
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True
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A Web page is a document that has been created using HTTP.
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False
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The very first time Firefox starts, only the Firefox button and the ____ toolbar are displayed in the program window.
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Navigation
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The History tab records your browsing activity by organizing and storing the URLs of the Web sites you have visited by all of the following except ____.
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popularity
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Apple's browser is called ____.
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Safari
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A Web client is the software that you run on your computer to make it work as a Web browser.
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False
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A Web browser is ____ that allows your computer to connect to, locate, retrieve, and display Web content.
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software
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All of the following buttons can be found on the Firefox Navigation toolbar EXCEPT ____.
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Firefox
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The private browsing mode in Firefox is called ____.
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Private Browsing
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In the Address window, if you were to type simply nbc.com, Internet Explorer will convert it to ____ and load the home page at that URL.
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http://www.nbc.com
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Page tabs allow you to have multiple Web pages open at once, and to easily navigate among them.
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True
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Thanks to improved technology, email attachments no longer contain viruses.
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False
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As with most file-sharing sites, part of the user and terms of service agreements that you must accept when creating a Windows Live account prohibit you from uploading ____ to the Windows Live site without authorization.
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copyrighted material
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A ____ version of a message excludes ads and other content on the page, such as links.
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printer friendly
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When you delete an email message that contains an attached file, you also delete the file that is attached to the message.
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True
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After uploading a file to SkyDrive, you can add comments to it, but you cannot rename the file.
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False
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A ____ message is a copy of the sender's original message with your inserted comments.
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quoted
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When you don't need a message any longer, you can delete it by opening the message and then clicking the Recycle link on the Hotmail menu bar.
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False
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As you use Hotmail email to communicate with business associates and friends, you might want to save their contact information in your ____ list to make it easier to enter addresses into the header of your email messages.
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contact
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When sending business correspondence, use a(n) comma to indicate a brief pause in a sentence, or to join or separate sentence parts.
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true
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If you receive an email message from a sender that you don't recognize and the message contains an attached file, you should ____.
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avoid opening the file until you are sure that it doesn't contain a virus
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Some mail servers will reject messages with too many recipients (usually ____ or more).
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50
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Protocols are rules that determine how the Internet handles message packets flowing on it.
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True
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In an email, the message body contains the actual message content.
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True
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A ____ might appear at the bottom of an email message and contain standard information about the sender.
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signature
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All of the following are typical parts of an email message EXCEPT ____.
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salutation
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You cannot attach more than one file to an email message.
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False
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In Hotmail, if you want to forward the message to several people, type their addresses, separated by periods.
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False
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To reply to a message, click the Reply link on the Hotmail menu bar to reply only to the sender.
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True
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Bcc email recipients are unaware of other Bcc recipients.
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True
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In Hotmail, you can create a group of contacts, called a category or ____ list, and use the category to address messages to a group of recipients.
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distribution
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In Hotmail, when you delete a message or folder, you are simply moving it to the Deleted folder.
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True
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The following are generally accepted rules for email messages EXCEPT ____.
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always forward new information about viruses and hoaxes
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An email sender's local network sends the message to the sender's mail ____.
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server
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A file that has been attached to an email message will be received by those recipients in the ____ line(s) of the message header.
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To, Cc, and Bcc
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Protocols are rules that determine how the Internet handles message packets flowing on it.
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True
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POP (or POP3) is an extensively used protocol for handling incoming email messages.
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True
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Some email programs let you define and use a(n) queue to move incoming mail into a specific folder.
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False
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When forwarding a message, Windows Live Hotmail includes the original message in the message display area and adds a blank line ____ so you can add an optional message to provide context for the recipient.
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above it
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When you ____ a message, a copy of the original message is sent to the new recipient(s) without the original sender's knowledge.
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forward
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____ are rules that determine how the Internet handles message packets flowing on it.
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Protocols
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Boolean algebra uses ___.
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logical relationships
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The procedure of converting a natural language question into a search expression is called parsing.
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True
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An HTML file that exists on a Web server computer is known as a(n) dynamic Web page.
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False
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Meta tag text does appear on a Web page when a Web browser loads it.
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False
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A ____, or spider, is a search engine program that automatically searches the Web to find new Web sites and update information about old Web sites.
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bot
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Regarding search engines, the term "search expression" means something different from the term "query."
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False
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Web pages included in a Web directory are organized into categories before visitors use the directory.
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True
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A spider is a program that automatically searches the Web to find new Web sites.
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True
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If, while performing a search on a specific question, you find that you're heading in the wrong direction, the text describes this as encountering a(n) ____.
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blind alley
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In Boolean algebra (named after British mathematician George Boole), all values are reduced to one of two values.
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True
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____ Web pages are created "on the fly" from databases.
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Dynamic
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A ____ eliminates Web pages from search results.
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search filter
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A(n) ____ tag is HTML code that a Web page creator places in the page header for the specific purpose of informing Web robots about the content of the page.
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meta
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A ____ operator lets you search for terms that appear close to each other in the text of a Web page.
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proximity
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Wikipedia relies on contributions from anyone for its entries.
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True
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____ is a way of grading Web pages by the number of other Web pages that link to them.
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Page ranking
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A Web search engine is a Web site (or part of one) that finds other Web pages that match a word or phrase you enter.
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True
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A ____ is a listing of hyperlinks to Web pages that is organized into hierarchical categories.
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Web Directory
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Regarding search engines, the term "stemming" means ____.
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searching for variants of keywords
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A good example of a specific question would be, "____".
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How many sonnets did Shakespeare write?
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Clustering is an effective tool when a word in a search expression has multiple meanings.
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True
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Regarding search engines, the term "search expression" means something different from the term "query."
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False
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A hyperlink to a Web page that no longer exists or has been moved to another URL is called a(n) ghost link.
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False
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Some search engines group their search results into globs.
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False
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George Boole developed the branch of mathematics and logic known as Boolean ____.
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algebra
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It is possible for a legitimate not-for-profit company to be using a .com domain rather than .org.
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True
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The combination of search engine and Web directory is sometimes called a(n) ____.
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hybrid search engine directory
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Hackers and other developers of malware tend to occupy a space of the Internet known as the "deep Web."
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False
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Clustering provides a(n) ____ filtering effect.
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Automatic
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Sometimes a search engine will include stop words in its search if you include them as part of a phrase enclosed in ____.
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quotes
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The expression "____" would return pages containing both "woman" and "women."
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wom*n
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