Fundamentals: Take the quiz - Google News Initiative

TAKE A SHORT QUIZ TO REVIEW WHAT YOU LEARNED.

Which Advanced Search technique is most likely to improve the efficiency of your research?

Specifying a custom date range

Using modifiers, including site:, filetype:, + and -

Putting quotations around your search term

Increasing the number of search terms

QUESTION 2 OF 9

When you find an image in social media and you want to fact check it, what’s the first tool you should use?

Image Search

News Archive

Street View

Reverse Image Search

QUESTION 3 OF 9

Which of these most accurately describes what you’ll find on Google Trends?

Trending articles, queries and total number of searches on a topic

Trending queries, most relevant articles, interest over time, interest by region, and related topics

Rankings of the most popular websites related to your query, with interest by region and over time

Trending queries, most searched articles, related topics, total number of searches

QUESTION 4 OF 9

If you want to monitor breaking news on a topic, what service should you sign up for?

Google News Lab Alerts

Google Media Updates

My Google News

Google Alerts

QUESTION 5 OF 9

Where can you learn about proper citations for using Google products in your reporting?

google.com/brandguidelines

google.com/publishers

google.com/journalists

google.com/permissions

QUESTION 6 OF 9

If you want to build a custom map that takes your readers to the heart of your story, which tool would you use?

Google Maps

Google Trends

Google My Maps

Google Street View

QUESTION 7 OF 9

Google Trends is useful for comparing the relative popularity of queries. How many groups of terms can you compare and how many terms can be in each group?

3 groups of 10 terms

5 groups of 25 terms

4 groups of 15 terms

6 groups of 10 terms

QUESTION 8 OF 9

Google Scholar features articles published by universities and researchers. What other type of content does it feature?

Government records

Court transcripts

U.S. case law

International case law

QUESTION 9 OF 9

If you’re interviewing a subject who speaks a foreign language, which function of the Google Translate app will be most helpful?

Word Lens

Instant Dictionary

Downloading a language pack

Conversation mode

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