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How was the Excite search engine unique for its time?

 

• It did not provide a ranking system
• It ranked search engine results based on statistical analysis of word relationships
• It collected titles and headers of web pages using a linear search method
• It listed results as they were discovered on the Internet

 

 

What does a robot determine about a new website once it has analyzed it? (Select all that apply.)

 

• The relevance of content to a user’s search
• The quality of the site’s content
• What the site is about
• What topics the site should rank for

 

 

Google’s version of sponsored links that appear for certain keywords is called:

 

• Excite
• AdWords
• Overture
• AdVerbs
• AdSense

 

 

According to this course, which of the following is the first true “search engine”?

 

• ALIWEB
• ARCHIE
• ARPANET
• WWW Wanderer
• SMART

 

 

The person widely referred to as the creator of the World Wide Web is:

 

• Alan Emtage
• Vannevar Bush
• Gerard Salton
• Ted Nelson
• Tim Berners-Lee

 

 

True or False: Search engines have evolved to the point where the relevance and density of keywords are no longer a ranking factor for websites.

 

• True

 

• False