Which of the following is not a search engine?
Correct answer: BBC
The BBC website has news and other features
What happens if you click "I'm Feeling Lucky" on a Google search?
Correct answer: You go to straight to the top site
What are search terms?
Correct answer: The words you type into a search box
Also known as keywords
What symbol is commonly used on the button you click to perform a search?
Correct answer: magnifying glass
The web address for Google is https://www.google.co.uk. What does https tell you?
Correct answer: data is encrypted
Sites that are not encrypted have addresses starting with http
Who owns the Bing Search Engine?
Correct answer: Microsoft
Which of the following is not a search category on Google?
Correct answer: Documents
You can use a phrase search on Google by enclosing your search terms in quotation marks - "". What does this do?
Correct answer: Finds pages with the search terms in that precise order
After you type your search terms and perform the search, Google shows you a list of results. How can you visit one of the pages on the results list?
Correct answer: Click on the blue text at the top
What checks does Google make on the search results?
Correct answer: none of the above
How can you exclude the word music from the results on Google?
Correct answer: Put a dash directly before the word
When you search on Google, roughly how many web pages does it check?
Correct answer: 1,000,000,000
Google searches billions of pages
How can you check the information on a web page is reliable?
Correct answer: All of the above
Google sometimes includes adverts among the search results, where do these appear?
Correct answer: At the top, marked as 'sponsored'
How did Google get its name?
Correct answer: the number googol
Who are the founders of Google? More than one answer may be correct.
Correct answer: Larry Page and Sergey Brin
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