Use Best Search Tools Chart from Infopeople, or the search engine presentation to help you answer these questions. Copy & paste this page to a Word document, fill in answers, save to your H: drive, print, & submit the completed quiz to your teacher.

1. Which search tools are selected by humans (hand-picked), and searched by subject categories rather than full-text? _____ (a. search engines  b. metasearch engines  c. subject directories)

2. Which search tools are quick and superficial searchers, don't own their own database, and rely on other search engines for their list of results? _____ (a. search engines   b. metasearch engines  c. subject directories)

3. Which search tools search the full text of web pages and own their own databases? _____ (a. search engines  b. metasearch engines  c. subject directories)

4. Name three true search engines _________________ _________________ _________________

5. Name three metasearch engines ________________ _________________ _________________

6. Name three subject directories ________________ _________________ _________________

7. Name two "invisible web" search engines ___________________ ___________________

8. Which search engine analyzes links from other websites and organizes them by number of links made? It also has several specialized searches. ___________________

9. Which search engine provides good answers for simple questions, and also has safe, entertaining games for kids? ___________________

10. Which subject directory searches a large database of commercially submitted sites, and is better for researching business and products than scholarly topics? ___________________

11. Which metasearch engine organizes search results from other search tools into clusters of topics? It's a good source for current events and complex topics. ___________________

12. What is the invisible web? ________________________________________________________