Week 4 tute...

The Internet and its History...
I really didn't know too much about its history - I can just remember being allowed to open a Hotmail account and since that blessed night I'd be emailing all my little girly friends the weekly goss.

Its amazing to see what is possible with the internet now... in the 21st Century.
With one click 100,000,000 websites will list in front of you for one query, any question under the sun you have can be answered and you can even watched videos from around the world. This therefore will be the topic of my essay: the evolution of the Computer! (In my later blog I will list the 3 academic articles that relate to my topic.)

The Scavenger Hunt: (all found via Ask.com)
1. The weight of the world's biggest pumpkin is 1502 pounds to date.
Resource: http://www.bigpumpkins.com.au

2. Grant Hackett is contactable via his management:
International Quarterback Pty Ltd, Suite 9, 36 Agnes Street, Fortitude Valley, QLD 4006
Telephone: (07) 3252 2311
Resource: http://www.celebrity-addresses.com

3. The giraffe's prehensile tongue, measures approximately 18 inches in length.
www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/t-giraffe.html

4. Ontology is a structured way of speaking to describe a concept or method.
http://magpie.ucalgary.ca/magpie/help/magpie_ontology_definition.html

5. 'Transfer' produced in 1966 was David Cronenberg's first full length feature film.
http://www.salon.com/people/bc/1999/11/30/cronenberg/

6. Hacker's Manifesto was originally written in 1986 by Loyd Blankenship
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=550465

7. The entertainment industry decided to use '555' as the beginning digits for all phone numbers in America several years ago, because viewers were memorizing the phone numbers actors used and calling them. No actual phone numbers in the U.S. begin with '555'.
http://www.briomag.com/briomagazine/soulfood/A0005924.html

8. Taking a ferry is the cheapest form of travel from Crete to Rhodes.
http://www.athensguide.com/ferries.html

9. The Seeker's "I'll never find another you" was number 1 this week on the Australian Pop Chart in 1965.
http://www.onlineweb.com/theones/1965_1969.htm

10. The Black Assassins
http://www.griffith.edu.au/school/art/staff/stockwell.htm

Search engines....

• Search engines maintain databases of websites and use software programs to collect information asked for by the user.
  
• They rank the information retrieved based on the relevancy to the search terms used, frequency of keywords on a search page, popularity of site listed in relation to search terms, etc.
  
• Sites listed at the top of search results indicate that they have the higher frequency of keywords on the page, the site is highly popular, the site is a sponsor of the search engine, etc.
  
• Ask.com and Google are my favourite search engines. Google compiles information from everywhere and anywhere and allows a broader search. Whereas, Ask.com allows specific questions to be answered. Both search engines are effective and useful in different ways.
  
• Search Engines in current news stories:
  
• "Google omits controversial news stories in China" (http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6426)
• "Is Google too powerful?" (http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_15/b4029001.htm)
• "Ask.com becoming the search engine that could (http://news.com.com/Ask.com+becoming+the+search+engine+that+could/2100-1038_3-6132473.html)
• "AltaVista to climb new heights with IPO" (http://news.com.com/AltaVista+to+climb+new+heights+with+IPO/2100-1040_3-265557.html)

Wow... the internet truly is a big deal.