You Are a Reporter for Your College Newspaper and Planning

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Essay

You are a reporter for your college newspaper and planning some advance columns for a weekly Internet column. You know it would be helpful for your readers to understand what's going on in advanced searches with Boolean logic. It seems too daunting to try to cover in one column, so you decide to start by making notes about what you want to cover in several columns. Record your thoughts about metasearch engines and the pros and cons of using them.

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Definitions:

Market Price

The price in the marketplace at which an asset or service can currently be bought or sold.

Stock Outstanding

The aggregate amount of a corporation's stock currently possessed by all its shareholders, encompassing blocks of shares owned by institutional investors and shares that are subject to restrictions.

Shares Issued

The total number of shares that a corporation has legally distributed to shareholders, which may include shares held by the public as well as restricted shares owned by the company's insiders.

Red Herring

A preliminary prospectus filed by a company with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), usually in connection with the company's initial public offering.