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When a question on Kaun Banega Crorepati stumps you, do you...
a) look in your dusty 24-volume EB?
b) phone a friend?
c) fire up your favourite search engine?


Google is a digit followed by innumerable
zeroes and Yahoo is a brute

a) so?
b) Of course, I know that.
  My dad’s a mathematician and my mom’s a English lit professor
c) Google is a search engine and Yahoo! is a directory.

When a friend mentions the word spider
a) you say eeeeeeeeeeeks!
b) you discuss zoology
c) you launch into a spiel about bots and indexes

Webcrawler is a
a) you guys have a spider-fixation or wot?
b) Eeeeks
c) a metasearch engine

Natural language is
a) your mother tongue
b) the language that comes to you naturally
c) a way of formulating queries on search engines
like Alta Vista and Ask Jeeves

When at first you don’t succeed, do you try, try till you succeed at the same search engine or switch to another one?
a) are you questioning my brand loyalty?
b) All search engines are alike
c) You try a couple of times with variations of your keywords, and
then, if you still have no answers, you switch to another search engine.

Khoj is..
a) a hindi movie starring rishi kapoor
b) the hindi word for find
c) an Indian search engine

Boolean is
a) does it have something to do with gold?
b) Was never very good at algebra!
c) An advanced technique to refine searches, using +, -, etc

BullsEye is
a) the way you like your eggs
b) something through which a bull views the world
c) a powerful search tool you can download for free to your desktop