Google Search - Administrative Support
Practice questions to test your knowledge and improve your understanding.
What happens when you leave the search bar blank and click the Google Search button?
Which of the following will retrieve search results from government and educational sites on the topic of homelessness?
How would you find information about the website wikipedia.org?
How would you search for a page that includes the following terms: dog, cat?
Which of the following would be called stop words?
To search for results related to freedom fighters or insurgents, enter:
True or False: The more words you add into the query, the more you limit the search results
How would you search for the terms breast cancer with Safe Search on?
The "intitle:" search option is used to search _____.
How do you hide personal search results?
If you want to exclude a term, what symbol do you put in front of it?
What is the name of the search engine technology due to which a query for the word 'actor' will also show search results for related words such as actress, acting or act?
What symbol is used for a wildcard search?
Which searching option in Google would be best to search competitive price for a wedding gowns?
Which of the following will retrieve pages containing the exact phrase "all cats are grey in the dark"?
How can you search property sellers of USA?
True or False: The following two search terms will give the same results: "nikon 400" and "nikon $400"
What search will produce the temperatures for each day of next week in Johannesburg?
How can you search mosques of India?
How would you search for web pages that contain the phrases "Rolling Stones" and "Pink Floyd" separated by no more than 4 words?
How would you find Groups messages containing 'alternative music' in the subject?
What does the symbol ~ do when you put it in front of a word in your search?
You are searching for sites that contain stored copies of a specific format of document (for example a .pdf), what is the appropriate Operator?
Which of the following would exclude .doc files from this search's results?
Which of the following would search the EXACT phrase, 'the early bird gets the worm'?
True or False: Google cannot look up stock quotes.
If you google "site:youtube.com bird watching", which will you find in your search results?
What is the shortcut to find the weather near a zip code? (example 90210)
How would you search for local weather for zip code 19104?
You need to find information on the Canon MX340 printer. You only wish to view results from Canon.com websites. Which is the correct entry?
True or False: You can turn off Google Instant.
What happens when you include double quotes around a phrase when searching?
How do you quickly search for the definition of abate?
What is the term for capitalized words that join or separate key words and phrases, such as "AND," "OR" and "NOT"?
True or False: Searching Sqrt (4) gives you the square root of 4.
True or False: Correct punctuation increases the accuracy of your search.
True or false: You can add an alert for discussions.
What's the maximum number of search results Google will display?
Google search does not index some common words (such as "or", "and", "when", and "in") within the webpage. What are these common words called?
A simple search on the keyword "restaurants" will return results ordered by which of the following?
What parameter in a Google query would override language of the interface to German?
There are 7 symbols that Google recognizes to have special meaning. Which of the following symbols is NOT on that list?
How would you search for the phrase "puppy food" in the site dogs.about.com?
How can you find the time in London in a Google Search?
Do you need to log in to a Google account to use Google search?
How do you search the definition of a word?
For which browser does Google support voice search?
To search for "Zune" on Microsoft's official website, what search terms would you use?
How would you search for an exact quote if you only remembered the start, e.g. "a penny saved is a penny earned"?
If your Google search uses confusing or nonsensical search phrases (eg banana wingbat England), what will occur?