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Searches |
Searches Section Homework Complete the assignment below. E-mail your answers using this link blick@latech.edu. Note: Do not conduct any searches for Assignment 1. Just write the required expressions. The actual searches are in Assignment 2. Assignment 1 1) Use Boolean operators to construct expressions that you would use in a search engine to look for each of the following: a) Pages that contain the words "apple" and "pie" whether or not they are adjacent to each other. b) Pages that contain references to hot dogs, keeping in mind that some people call them frankfurters and others call them weiners. 2) Use symbols as modifiers to show how you would instruct a search engine in each of the following situations: a) No page containing the word "apple" should appear in the search's results. b) The word "apricot" should appear in each page in the search's results. c) The expression "chocolate cake" should appear in each page in the search's results. 3) Use symbols and Boolean operators as needed to construct an expression that tells a search engine to first find all pages that contain any of the words "movie," "film" and "cinema" and then return only those pages that also contain the word "awards." ==================== Assignment 2 Pick any topic that interests you and about which you would like to learn more. Use the five search engines other than Google with links on the Journalism 222 Single Search Engines page (http://eb.journ.latech.edu/rescourse/srcheng4.html) to find information about that topic. Answer the questions below about your efforts. 1) What was your topic? 2) Name each search engine that you used and tell how many useful sites you found through it. a) AllTheWeb -- b) AltaVista -- c) Ask -- d) Clusty -- e) Teoma -- 3) Sometimes you will find the same site or sites appearing in more than one search engine's results. How many useful sites appeared in a) all five of the engines' results -- b) exactly four of the engines' results -- c) exactly three of the engines' results -- d) exactly two of the engines' results -- e) only one engine's results -- 4) a) Which of those five search engines would you be most likely to use for future research? b) Explain in a paragraph or two why you chose that one. Include specific reasons. 5) a) Which of those five search engines would you be least likely to use for future research? b) Explain in a paragraph or two why you chose that one. Include specific reasons. |