LRC Search Engine - Quick Quiz 

If you have worked through the previous pages, try to answer the following questions ...

Which of these is not a famous search engine?

 Google 
 AlltheWeb
 Insofaras 
 Yahoo 


What is the Boolean method for excluding items from a search,
eg. looking for pages about cats but excluding those that
mention dogs?

 using X, eg. cats X dogs
 using NO, eg. cats NO dogs
 using NOT, eg. cats NOT dogs
 using EXCLUDE, eg. cats EXCLUDE dogs


How would you phrase a search for web pages that mention 
both dogs and fleas, but specifically exclude pages 
that mention cats?

 fleas AND cats AND dogs
 fleas OR cats OR dogs
 (fleas OR dogs) NOT cats
 (fleas AND dogs) NOT cats

Correct - we made this one up.
No - this is actually a search engine ...
go to http://www.uel.ac.uk/lls/
and click Search for a list of
search engines
Correct - 'NOT' excludes results
Wrong ... try again!
Correct ... this is the right answer
Wrong ... think about it and try again!