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Typo Grade XII (Ch-5)

The document provides an overview of search engines, their importance, and how they function, highlighting the need for search engine optimization. It also explains Boolean operators used in search queries, defines e-commerce, and categorizes its different types. Additionally, it discusses the use of phrase searches to refine search results.

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Typo Grade XII (Ch-5)

The document provides an overview of search engines, their importance, and how they function, highlighting the need for search engine optimization. It also explains Boolean operators used in search queries, defines e-commerce, and categorizes its different types. Additionally, it discusses the use of phrase searches to refine search results.

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Grade -XII

Unit-5 : Internet Search


Review Questions

Q1: What is Search Engine? Give three examples.


Ans1: A Search engine can be defined as a tool to search these disorganized sources of
information available on the Internet. Using a search engine is pretty simple. Just type inthe data
to be searched, the space provided at the search engine’s current page, and clicksearch. The
result will be displayed with information corresponding to the search in the
form of a list of web-sites that match that word or phrase. A search engine is a critical toolin
finding information, products, and businesses on the web. Some of the popular Search
Engines on the Internet are:

• Google https://www.google.com/

• Bing https://www.bing.com/

• Yahoo https://search.yahoo.com/

• Baidu http://www.baidu.com/

Q2: Why Search Engine is needed?


Ans 2: Today’s consumers rely on search engines to help them find everything from restaurant
recommendations to B2B software providers. This means that regardless of what your business
offers, your target audience is likely searching for products or services like yours on search
engines like Google. And if you want to attract them to your site, you need search engine
optimization.
To Google Something”
According to Google, they are seeing over one trillions searches performed each year. That is
about three billion searches a day. Needless to say, you are not alone when it comes to finding
useful information via a search engine. Search Engines are right at your fingertips and have
become a part of the daily life of most. They have become readily accepted in contemporary
culture that the word Google now appears in the dictionary. Not defined only as a noun, but also
as a verb as in “to Google something.”
A Filter of Sorts…
Essentially, a Search Engine acts as a filter for a wealth of available information on the Internet.
Search Engines allow users to not only quickly, but also easily, find the information that is of
interest or value to them. It also eliminates the need to wade through numerous amounts of
irrelevant web pages. It is safe to say that the goal of a Search Engine is to providethe user with
search results that lead to relevant information on high quality websites. The ideal word here
being “relevant”. In order for a Search Engine to attain and retain a market, they need to make
sure to deliver results that are relevant to what the user is searching for. Thisis accomplished by
maintaining databases of web pages. Search Engines use complex algorithms to assess websites
and we pages in order to assign them a ranking for relevant searchphrases.

Q3: Name three Boolean operators used with keywords while using Search Engines.
Ans 3: Boolean Operators AND, OR and NOT are used to connect words and terms in the query

AND Operator

AND is the default operator in search engines. So whenever more than one
keyword is typed, the search engine will automatically connect them with the AND
operator. This search will retrieve records with BOTH search terms present. It is used
to narrow the search.
Example: Wind AND Fire
OR Operator

By using OR operator search results will contain either one or several or all of the
search terms. It is best used when one want to pull together results on similartopics.
OR operator is used to EXPAND the search.
Example: Wind OR Fire

NOT Operator

It is used to exclude keywords from search. It is best used when the search is
ambiguous. Instead of NOT – (dash) can also be used. NOT operator is used to narrow
the search by eliminating term.

Example: Wind NOT Fire or Wind -Fire


Q4: What is E-Commerce?

Ans 4: A broad definition of e-commerce is: “The marketing, promoting, buying & selling of
goods electronically, particularly via the Internet”. A narrower definition is “the trading of
goods and services in which the final order is placed over the Internet”. In fact E-
Commerce is the subset of E-Business.

Q5: Name the different types of E-Commerce.


Ans 5: It is necessary to consider the various forms that Internet Commerce embodiesin
order to understand the implications for taxation. E-commerce can be categorized in four
ways:
• Business to business (B2B); www.vendome.niit.com
• Business to consumer (B2C); www.indiatimes.com
• Consumer to business (C2B); www.makemytrip.com
• Consumer to consumer (C2C); www.ebay.in

Q6: What is the use of Phrase search?

Ans 6: Search syntax involves using quotation marks (") around a specific phrase.
Phrases are very useful at narrowing down search results to pages that contain the exact,
specific string of characters written as a phrase.
Example: If "Padma Shri Award Winners 2014" is searched for, the search resultsnow will only
bring back pages that have all these words in the exact order that istyped them in.

Fill in the Blanks

1. When a request is sent from the browser, it is processed that retrieves the
information and provides it back to the browser.

2. A network of networks is called Internet.

3. B2B is called Business to business

4. There are three type of search engines.

5. E-Commerce is the subset of E-Business.

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