WWW+Search+Strategies


 * Activity #1: ** I briefly explored Yahooligans!, Awesome Library and Ask Jeeves for Kids. I like how Yahooligans broke the results into different categories such as “in movies,” “in jokes,” “in encyclopedia,” etc. to help navigate children to the information they are seeking. I like how Awesome Library has filtered out junk and been customized for the convenience of students, parents and teachers. I like how AJ for Kids automatically shows a brief description of the topic and provides pictures immediately after you hit “search” and then it is followed by several links to websites. All three of these seem like they would be fairly easy for a child to use.


 * Activity #2: ** Heart Disease without quotations gave me 15,561 hits. “Heart Disease” gave me 14,268 hits. Wow, that’s over 1,000 less hits. Awesome!


 * Activity #3: ** I am going to create my Pathfinder on Dolphins so I used that term. The Boolean operators help refine searches, but aren’t 100% on point. For example, when I typed in Dolphins NOT Football, the hits went down by thousands, but I still saw a few sites listed that were about the Miami Dolphins.

Domain Name: HUNGRY-GIRL.COM Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC. Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com Referral URL: http://www.networksolutions.com Name Server: NS.RACKSPACE.COM Name Server: NS2.RACKSPACE.COM Status: clientTransferProhibited Updated Date: 04-oct-2006 Creation Date: 03-oct-2002 Expiration Date: 03-oct-2013
 * Activity #4: ** There is a website, [|www.hungry-girl.com], that I use as an additional resource to the Weight Watchers program. When I searched for the owner I got the following information…

**.aero**- for the air transport industry
 * Activity #5 ****: ** Use your developing search skills to find the intended use of the following:
 * .asia ** - for Asia
 * .biz ** - for business use
 * .com ** - for commercial organizations, but unrestricted
 * .coop ** - for cooperatives
 * .edu ** - for post-secondary educational establishments
 * .gov**- for governments and their agencies in the United States
 * .info ** - for informational sites, but unrestricted
 * .jobs ** - for employment related sites
 * .k12 ** - for K-12 educational establishments
 * .mil ** - for the U.S. military
 * .mobi ** - for sites catering to mobile devices
 * .museum ** - for museums
 * .name ** - for families and individuals
 * .net ** - originally for network infrastructures, now unrestricted
 * .org ** - originally for organizations not clearly falling within the other gTLDs, now unrestricted
 * .pro ** - for certain professions
 * .sch ** - for a subdomain to represent primary and secondary schools
 * .tel ** - for services involving connections between the telephone network and the Internet
 * .travel ** - the source for all things travel related

Activity #6 ****: **  I searched “host:au physicians,” Australia Physicians and AltaVista found 1,070,000 results.
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Activity #7 ****: **  I searched “host:museum + country music,” Museums involving country music and AltaVista found 817 results.
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Activity #8 ****: **  (1) The time tool is nice, but I think it mostly covers large cities in other countries. I typed in a few small Italian towns that I visited during my study abroad and their weather conditions did not come up. (2) The calculator is amazing for solving math equations! I simply had to type in an equation and the answer pops up. (3) I like the Unit Conversion tool. This will be handy for altering recipes in the kitchen. (4) The people profiles tool made me aware that my name is plastered on the internet (primarily with OSU related stuff). When I typed in my deceased grandfather's name, his name and a picture of his head stone at the cemetery was put on someones website which I was not aware of before. (5) The synonym and dictionary definition searches are very convenient. They are much quicker than grabbing a dictionary or thesaurus and looking up words.
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