Esteban Is Studying the Various Ways of Searching for Information

question 114

Multiple Choice

Esteban is studying the various ways of searching for information on the Internet. He has asked you to come over and help quiz him, and you've agreed.
-Next, you show Esteban a copy of your favorite book, Paint and Parachutes. The cover is torn, and you'd like to buy another one. You ask him to search for the book on the Web, but the search results have been unhelpful. They only provide links to Web sites describing paint, or parachuting, not the book. You ask Esteban for the most likely reason this happened. Esteban tells you that ____.

• A) there probably is no such book
• B) the search engine probably saw "and" as a stop word and only searched on "paint" and "parachutes" separately
• C) there were too many letters in the query
• D) none of the above

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