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What action can you take to aid in the process of having web crawlers, spiders, or robots discover your site?

 

• Perform a search query
• Add your site to free services like Google Webmasters Tools
• Submit your site directly to a search engine

 

 

In the early 1990s, what was a primary debate regarding the identity of the Internet?

 

• Should it charge for user usage?
• Should it continue to exist, or was it already obsolete?
• Should it restrict access to users based on geographical location?
• Should it be monetized or remain a free exchange of information?

 

 

In which of the following ways did the Yahoo search engine revolutionize web searching?

 

• It created directories for users to navigate
• It was the first to index titles and URLs
• It was the first to analyze word relationships
• It created headers to simplify searches

 

 

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