Name: _________________________________________________
Instructions: The following exercises ask you
to find information on the Web using a variety of different
search tools, using subject directories and keyword searches.
Use a multiple search engine such as Dogpile,
to locate the answers to the even numbered questions below.
Use another search tool--either a directory search
tool like Yahoo!
or a single search engine such as Google--for
the odd numbered questions below. If you are unsuccessful
with one type of search tool, then try another. For each
question you will need to:
- Write
down which search engine(s) you used
- For
each search, write down the URL (web address) of the
answer page(s) (It often begins with "http://
..." )
- Write
down what you used as keywords (specific search terms
and symbols in order they were typed), and/or write
down which subject categories you used (if you used
a directory like Yahoo!).
Search
Engine Exercises:
- Pick
2 search engines and identify 4 different advanced
search features each can perform (beyond simple
word and phrase searching). Write down names of the
search engines and these features:
- Using
Google, find the Web sites for at least 2 different
national telephone directories (online directories
that have addresses and phone numbers for most everyone
in the country). Name the 2 directories and give their
URLs below. See if your own phone number is available
on these directories and indicate either "yes" or
"no" next to the directory's URL.
- Find
official government information related to
federal income taxes which talks about either
the Child Tax Credit or the Child and Dependent
Care Credit for the 2003 tax year.
Write the URL and the name of the website providing
this information below.
- Find
the website for the South Bend Tribune or your
hometown newspaper's web site. Write down the URL,
the date of the online issue you found, and the title
of the cover story for the issue.
- Locate
a public library home page in either the town you
were born in, the town you grew up in, or find the
webpage for Allen County Public Library (Ft. Wayne).
Write down the URL of the library you chose, and find
the name of the library's director.
- Find
a page that provides a table of contents for
a recent issue of a peer-reviewed scholarly online
journal in either nursing, psychology, sociology,
economics, biology, or history. Write the name of
the journal, the URL of the website, and the title
of one of the articles.
- Find
the fulltext of one of Shakespeare’s
plays (Such as Hamlet or Othello).
Write down the URL for this website.
- Find
out the size and weight of NASA's Cassini
satellite used on a mission to Saturn. Write down
this information and the URL of the webpage providing
this information.
- Using
Google, find the official home page of Representative
Chris Chocola (U.S. Congressman, Representative
for Indiana, Democrat, 3rd District). Write down the
URL of this site. For what Indiana company did Chocola
serve as CEO?
- Using
Dogpile, find a site that lists the ISBN (International
Standard Book Number) for a recent edition of "A
Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations
(Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)"
by Kate L. Turabian. Write down the
URL for this website and the ISBN number for this
book. Hint: You might end up at one of the online
bookstores.
Extra
Credit:
- Find
any page that gives information on the Top Search
Terms used by Search Engines. Write down
the URL of the website and the first term listed.
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