1. Types of Search Questions
Specific question-  a question that you can phrase easily and recognize the answer to.  Specific questions require you to narrow the search until you find the answer to your question.  
Exploratory question- an open-ended question that can be harder to phrase.  Exploratory questions start with general questions and lead you to more information about the topic.

2. Five-step web search process:
Determine if the question is specific or exploratory.
Formulate and state the question
Select the appropriate web search tool
Evaluate the search results
Repeat the previous steps until you find the answer

3. Search engine
A special web page that finds other web pages that match a word or phrase you enter.
Results pages-  Web pages that contain hyperlinks to the pages that contain text that matches your search expression.
A web robot (or spider) is a program that searches the web for new websites and updates information on old sites for a database.

4. Search engine
The only price you have to pay to use these tools is to see advertising banners.
Meta tag-  HTML code that is place on a web page to inform web robots about the content of the page
Full text indexing-  storing the entire content of every web page visited in a database.

5. Web Directory
Listing of hyperlinks to web pages organized into categories.  the difference between a search engine and a directory is that people select the web pages to include in a web directory (instead of a robot program).  Yahoo uses real people to do most of the selection and classification of pages.

6. Web Directory
Hybrid search engine directory-  A combination of search engine and directory used for searching the web.
Meta-search engine-  combines the power of multiple search engines.  Each search engine has different strengths

7. Other Sites Many sites contain hyperlinks to other useful sites.
You can store information from pages by:
printing copies of the pages
sending the URLs by
saving the web pages and attaching them to an .

8. Boolean Logic and Filtering Techniques
The most important factor in getting good results from a search engine is to select the search terms you use carefully.
Boolean operators specify logical relationships between the elements they join.  AND, OR, and NOT are recognized by most search engines.  Just include them with your search terms.

9. Boolean Logic and Filtering Techniques
Precedence operator-  clarifies the grouping within a complex expression usually indicated with a parentheses.
Location operator-  lets you search for terms that appear close to each other in the text of a page.  The most common location operator is the NEAR operator which finds only pages in which the terms are close to each other.
Wild character-  allows you to omit part of the search term or terms

10. To conduct a complex search using AltaVista:
Open the AltaVista search engine
Select the Advanced Search option
Choose a language filter
Devise and enter a suitable search expression
Click the Search button
Elevate the results and revise your search expression as necessary

11. To conduct a complex search using HotBot:
Open the HotBot search engine
Open the HotBot Advanced Search page
Set the Loc for field to allow Boolean operators
Choose a date and geographic region filters
Devise and enter a suitable search expression
Click the SEARCH button
Evaluate the results and revise your search expression as necessary

12. To conduct a complex search using Excite:
Open the Excite search engine
Devise and enter a suitable search expression
Click the Search button
Evaluate the results and revise your search expression as necessary

13. To conduct a complex search using Northern Light:
Open the Northern Light search engine
Devise and enter a suitable search expression
Click the Search button
Evaluate the results and revise your search expression as necessary