INF103 Week 2 - Quiz

Question 1

Of the following individuals, who was the most recent to develop information searching tools online?

Correct!

Brin

Bush

Wells

Otlet

Question 2

In 2007 Google Maps unveiled Street View. What does this feature allow you to do?

You Answered

View real-time streets

Correct Answer

View homes

View Satellite images

View maps

The answer can be found in Section 6.4 in Digital Literacy

Question 3

Google uses what strategy for matching web pages to your searching requests?

AdWord

Bookmarks

Correct!

PageRank

Past history

The answer can be found in Section 6.4 in Digital Literacy

Question 4

Which of the following locations represents the greatest danger in encountering misinformation?

Peer reviewed journal

University press

Correct!

Blogs

Library

The answer can be found in Section 6.1 in Digital Literacy

Question 5

Google’s main model for generating profit is:

Correct!

AdWords.

Applications.

Indexing.

Searches.

The answer can be found in Section 6.4 in Digital Literacy

Question 6

Vannevar Bush imagined a desktop computing machine that would allow people to access data stored in various information centers throughout the world. This device was called a:

PC.

Laptop.

Mainframe.

Correct Answer

Memex.

The answer can be found in Section 6.2 in Digital Literacy

Question 7

A custom information field that helps users to find a specific document is called a:

template.

database.

record.

Correct!

taxonomy.

The answer can be found in Section 6.2 in Digital Literacy

Question 8

Which of the following is NOT an example of a metasearch engine?

Searchengineland

Soovle

Correct!

Google

Forelook

The answer can be found in Section 6.4 in Digital Literacy

Question 9

What is the name of the personal digital assistant in Apple’s smart phone?

Sally

Suzi

Sarah

Correct!

Siri

The answer can be found in Section 6.4 in Digital Literacya.

Question 10

Which of the following is NOT a Google product?

Correct!

Facebook

You Tube

Scholar

Books

The answer can be found in Section 6.4 in Digital Literacy