311 Final 2025/2026 Exam All Answers
and Illustrations Given
Which of the following is NOT one of the text operations performed by
search engines? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Relevance feedback: detecting which
documents a user accepts or rejects from a result set
According to Matt Cutts in Google's "How Search Works" video, what is the
ballpark number of questions that Google "asks" about a document to
determine its relevance score for a user's query? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔200
What is the purpose of the retrieval/matching algorithm in a search engine?
- 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔To calculate which documents match a query.
The little software program that follows links around the Web to discover
new and updated pages for search engine indexes is called - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Crawler
What type of index is the basic type of index commonly used by search
engines where each entry in the index consists of a token and document
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, ID's that correspond to that token? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Inverted/Reverse
index
Which of the following is the best definition of a token in a search engine? -
🧠 ANSWER ✔✔An algorithm that ranks documents
Which of the following is the starting point for calculating the relevance
score of a document for a query? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Matching algorithm
In the 60 Minutes segment that was assigned for this unit's reading memo,
a tech leader, a lawyer, and an EU commissioner spoke up criticizing
Google for which of the following categories of unethical business
practices? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Undermining the competition
If one person labels the Info Sci program as coming from the iSchool and
another person labels the Info Sci program as coming from the College of
Information Studies, this is an example of which kind of vocabulary
problem? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Synonymy
Your grandma told you she likes a TV show called Ruby and thinks you
might enjoy it too. When you search Google for Ruby, you get a bunch of
hits about the ruby programming language, the gemstone called ruby,
some towns named Ruby (Alaska, Nebraska, etc.), and even a Pokemon
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and Illustrations Given
Which of the following is NOT one of the text operations performed by
search engines? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Relevance feedback: detecting which
documents a user accepts or rejects from a result set
According to Matt Cutts in Google's "How Search Works" video, what is the
ballpark number of questions that Google "asks" about a document to
determine its relevance score for a user's query? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔200
What is the purpose of the retrieval/matching algorithm in a search engine?
- 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔To calculate which documents match a query.
The little software program that follows links around the Web to discover
new and updated pages for search engine indexes is called - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Crawler
What type of index is the basic type of index commonly used by search
engines where each entry in the index consists of a token and document
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, ID's that correspond to that token? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Inverted/Reverse
index
Which of the following is the best definition of a token in a search engine? -
🧠 ANSWER ✔✔An algorithm that ranks documents
Which of the following is the starting point for calculating the relevance
score of a document for a query? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Matching algorithm
In the 60 Minutes segment that was assigned for this unit's reading memo,
a tech leader, a lawyer, and an EU commissioner spoke up criticizing
Google for which of the following categories of unethical business
practices? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Undermining the competition
If one person labels the Info Sci program as coming from the iSchool and
another person labels the Info Sci program as coming from the College of
Information Studies, this is an example of which kind of vocabulary
problem? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Synonymy
Your grandma told you she likes a TV show called Ruby and thinks you
might enjoy it too. When you search Google for Ruby, you get a bunch of
hits about the ruby programming language, the gemstone called ruby,
some towns named Ruby (Alaska, Nebraska, etc.), and even a Pokemon
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