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A(n) ____________________ is a ranked order.

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Subject guides focus your search toward more reliable or ____ resources.

A) expert
B) narrow
C) subjective
D) biased

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Portals or vortals are sometimes considered a type of specialized search engine.

Clicking through topics and subtopics arranged hierarchically is known as "____."

____________________ search engines are similar to regular Web search engines, except, like some subject guides, they limit the Web pages they search by subject.

Large gateways, called ____________________, create access to different segments of government information.

Match each term with the most accurate description below.

Some of the most authoritative and current information hidden in the invisible Web is stored in ____ databases.

Match each term with the most accurate description below.

Match each term with the most accurate description below.

Most subject guides' engines still search only their hand-selected indexes.

You are a reporter for your college newspaper and planning ahead for some columns for a weekly Internet column. The only questions you ever get are about one or two search engines and your experience tells you that few of your fellow students know anything about subject guides. You decide to make notes about what you would like to cover. Record the basic information you want to cover when you write about distributed subject guides.

You are a reporter for your college newspaper and planning ahead for some columns for a weekly Internet column. The only questions you ever get are about one or two search engines and your experience tells you that few of your fellow students know anything about subject guides. You decide to make notes about what you would like to cover. Record the information you want to cover when you write about annotations.

Describe subject guides.

A ____ library, such as ipl2, exists solely to bring together valuable Web sites and reference tools on just about any topic.

You are a reporter for your college newspaper and planning ahead for some columns for a weekly Internet column. The only questions you ever get are about one or two search engines and your experience tells you that few of your fellow students know anything about subject guides. You decide to make notes about what you would like to cover. Record the information you provide when you describe portals to your readers.

Specialized search engines are available for a wide variety of topics.

____ return fewer results than search engines, but the results are more likely to be reliable and useful.

A search with federal and the name of the state or province usually finds the official home page in the first few results.

Two tools that focus on the same narrow area are exactly alike.