Case-Based Critical Thinking Questions
Karen is learning about searching the Internet and collaborating with other people online.Karen has now narrowed her search for the Web site with her postings about Bill quite a bit. But the search results are still too numerous. She keeps seeing the word lyrics showing up in her searches. Since the "Lover's Lane" Web site she wants to find doesn't involve lyrics or songs, she wants to remove such Web sites from her search. She can do this by adding the word lyrics to her search with a ____ symbol in front of it.
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Case-Based Critical Thinking Questions
​Karen is learning about searching the Internet and collaborating with other people online.Karen has now narrowed her search for the Web site with her postings about Bill quite a bit. But the search results are still too numerous. She keeps seeing the word lyrics showing up in her searches. Since the "Lover's Lane" Web site she wants to find doesn't involve lyrics or songs, she wants to remove such Web sites from her search. She can do this by adding the word lyrics to her search with a ____ symbol in front of it.
A)-
B)#
C)˜
D)*

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

By adding the "-" symbol in front of the word "lyrics" in her search, Karen is telling the search engine to exclude any web pages that contain that word from her search results.