Advanced Google Session Quiz
Test what you've learned about using Google to search Smarter - Better - Faster.
- 1.Which option will improve your chances of finding useful material on Google? (More than one answer)
- A.
Plan your search
- B.
Just look at the first result
- C.
Search for synonyms
- D.
Type in your assignment question, exactly as it appears on the handout
- 2.If I want to find a definition for "semiotics" on Google, I should type
- A.
Define: semiotics
- B.
Define = semiotics
- C.
Definition: semiotics
- D.
Define*semiotics
- 3.What is the problem with searching for articles on Google Scholar? (You can select more than one response)
- A.
Google Scholar won’t find nearly all of the articles to which the library has access
- B.
Google Scholar is in BETA or ‘testing mode’
- C.
Google Scholar is sometimes slow on my computer
- D.
There are no problems with searching for articles on Google Scholar
- 4.Google is a good source for…
- A.
Books
- B.
Facebook
- C.
Journal articles
- D.
Community and government reports which you may not find in the Library catalogue
- 5.What searches the Internet to find websites which are indexed in Google?
- A.
Librarians
- B.
Spider or web crawler
- C.
Google monster
- D.
Information Technology staff who work for Google
- 6.Select words which would work well as phrase (more than one answer)
- A.
“television”
- B.
“public relations”
- C.
“bill gates”
- D.
“media violence kids”
- 7.How would you search for material on the French Revolution, between the years 1790-1794?
- A.
French revolution 1790-1794
- B.
French revolution (1790-1794)
- C.
French revolution 1790..1794
- D.
French revolution 1790*1794
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