LETS TRY A SEARCH!!!!:   Print out this page.  Then Go to Alta Vista  URL: GO TO www.altavista.com [You must be in Advanced Search mode]

Search Example #1: A good habit for searching is to write out your search statement and identify searchable terms.  Ranking (Sort By) allows you to choose the order of your results by weighting chosen words.  Try the same search but rank it differently and see what changes

I'm researching the status of Tigers as an endangered species and the habitats they live in.

Search Example #2: Proximity Searching using NEAR

Find a web page where the word baseball is within 10 words or Montreal.  Sort the search so that Montreal is ranked higher in the search results.

Search Example #3  

Using this search engine, find a site that gives the who won the Home Run Title of the National League in 1955.  Give the Title of the Web site and the URL

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Search Example #4

I've heard about "cookies." Apparently they reside on my personal computers hard drive and record where I've "traveled" on the Internet. Find out some information about this and privacy issues.  Write out a short definition of a "cookie" from your search results.  Give the source and URL.

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Question #5
 Use Google  http://www.google.com/  to find an image of a train in Vermont (click on the images tab) Give the url of where the page resides.  Not the Google URL

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Question # 6 URL search -Using Google
A Find out how many web sites link to www.smcvt.edu

Give the answer: _______________________________________

B. Do your own URL search give url and how many sites link to it

Give url and # ____________________________________

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Question # 7 - Do the same search you did in Question 1 in Google  - USE Advance Search  Note that advance search allows you to use boolean searching without using and, or nesting

Compare and Evaluate the results with the same search in AltaVista

A.  Number of hits ______________________________

B. Descriptions in the "annotations" _____________________________

C. Does Google support Wild cards / truncation? ______________________________

D. Can you find your search words in the documents found? ________________________

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Answers to Questions 8 and 9 are to be sent via EMAIL

Question # 8
What is your favorite search engine?  Send this to me (url) via EMAIL sburks@smcvt.edu   with a short 1 or 2 paragraph description of this search engines virtues.      

Question # 9
Send to me via EMAIL sburks@smcvt.edu   the 5 Internet Sites you use most frequently.   I'll post this information (anonymously) on a web page available from our syllabus

Include the NAME of the Internet Site and the URL

NOTE: the best way to send an URL is by COPYING and PASTING the URL into a document.  Never type out an URL if you can help it, because one often makes typing mistakes.