Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. In this lesson, we will gain an understanding of why search engines are necessary to help us find things on the World Wide Web. We will conduct our own searches and break down, in detail, the steps needed to find things on the web.

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4 Questions

Q1.
How would you find information on the internet? Tick 3 options.
Correct answer: Read a news website
Correct answer: Type a website URL
Correct answer: Use a search engine
Use a spreadsheet
Q2.
How does a search engine find new web pages? What does it use?
Index
Search engine
Virus
Correct answer: Web crawlers
Q3.
Which of these search terms is likely to produce the fewest results
Car
Red Car
Correct answer: Red sports car
Q4.
When searching on the world wide web, what is a good definition of a 'web crawler'?
A web crawler is an index of pages
Web crawlers are search engines
Correct answer: Web crawlers gather information from the World Wide Web

4 Questions

Q1.
How would you find information on the internet? Tick 3 options.
Correct answer: Read a news website
Correct answer: Type a website URL
Correct answer: Use a search engine
Use a spreadsheet
Q2.
How does a search engine find new web pages? What does it use?
Index
Search engine
Virus
Correct answer: Web crawlers
Q3.
Which of these search terms is likely to produce the fewest results
Car
Red Car
Correct answer: Red sports car
Q4.
When searching on the world wide web, what is a good definition of a 'web crawler'?
A web crawler is an index of pages
Web crawlers are search engines
Correct answer: Web crawlers gather information from the World Wide Web