B+-+Peetz+Cuties

 **Peetz Cuties** -Carole Meier, Kathy Trum, DeAnn VanHouten, Laura Nicholson, Kati Knaub

Browser questions

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1. Is Firefox Better than Internet Explorer? WHY?
== **Firefox** was **better than** all the previous versions of **Explorer**, but Windows upped their game with the current version. Basically, **Firefox** was **better** for the inter-window tabs, but now **Explorer** has the same function. ask.com - Kati ==

3. What does the ~ mean in a web site address? .com - Carole Meier
== 4. What are the different types of Domain Name Extension (name 10 of them) generic domains without sponsers are .biz .com .edu .ed .gov .info .int. .mil .name .net .org generic with sponsors .aero .asia .cat .coop .jobs .mobi .museum .pro .tel .travel - Laura Nicholson ==

** 5. **** How do Search Engines Work? **>>>>Please type in your answer with the web site and your name
==** They are special sites on the web that are designed to help people find information stored on other sites. Must of the time you can just go to one of the many search engine options and type in what you are looking for and it will give you tons of options to use. 1. they search the Internet -- or select pieces of the internet -- based on important words. 2. the keep an index of the words they find, and where they find them. 3. they allow users to look for words or combinations of words found in that index. - howstuffworks. com - DeAnn VanHouten **== [|**Google**] - [|www.google.com] [|**Yahoo! Search**]- [|search.yahoo.com] **Default operation**: Multiple search terms are processed as an __And__ operation by default. So adding more terms should get fewer results. 1) Search engine w/ page title, Keyword, URL, file size, cache link, and a more pages link. 2) Image databases 3) Video databases 4) Yahoo Directory 5) Local and Yellow Page 6) Yahoo! News 7) Yahoo! Shopping [] (Kathy)
 * 1) ** What are the Noteworthy features of each search engine? **
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 * Noteworthy features: **
 * 8. **** What are the Noteworthy features of each search engine? **
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 * Noteworthy features: **
 * Boolean Searching**: Yahoo supports Boolean operators & nested searching. AND, OR, NOT,, -
 * Proximity Searching**: Phrase searching is available by using "double quotes" around a phrase.
 * Case Sensitivity**: Yahoo has no case sensitive searching. Using either lower, upper, or mixed case will result in the same hits.
 * Field Searching**: Yahoo! Search supports several field seaches. Such as intitle, inurl, link, site, and etc.
 * Limits**: Yahoo! has limits for language, domain, date, file type, country, and adult content.
 * Stop Words**: Some common words are supposedly ingored and can be searched with a+ in front, but it seems all words are now searchable.
 * Sorting**: Results are sorted by a relevance algorithm. Pages are clustered by site. Only one page per site will be displayed.
 * Display**: Yahoo! provides results in seven categories:

>>>>Please type in your answer with the web site and your name A global internet search engine. Features shortcuts to CNN, Baags, (allows you to discover and share images,videos,and articles about your favorite subjects), BBC(international news), Amazon, Weather.com, Ebay - All are on the homepage for easy access.You can also edit and/or delete each or add a shortcut to your favorite webpage. Prefereces will let you search the web for pages written in any language or specific language.- [|www.exalead.com/search/] - Carole Meier >>>>Please type in your answer with the web site and your name Altavista – [|www.altavista.com] Can search worldwide/USA in all languages Toolbar features are websearch, translation avoid popup blockers and allows you to highlight Answers page_- can post a question Directory - Yahoo directory (host this weeks suggested sites) Shopping page - clothing, electronics, computers, home & garden, green center, deals Travel page - hotel,flight and car rentals Yellow page- look up like a yellow page People finder- search US phone and address and email address Can go to TOOLS - advanced search, web master search, text only search, translate and converter Images page - photos and graphics News page - Top stories, business Laura Nicholson
 * 9. **** What are the Noteworthy features of each search engine? **
 * [|Exalead] - ** [|www.exalead.com/search/]
 * Noteworthy features **
 * 10. **** What are the Noteworthy features of each search engine? **
 * Noteworthy features **

10. ASSIGNMENT: using the search box on the search engine : [|**Google**] - [|www.google.com]
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 * Connecticut Compromise** How many? 2,080,000 hits. - DeAnn VanHouten

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Now try searching for the same subject as a phrase, enclosed in quotes: 11. ASSIGNMENT: using the search box on the search engine : [|**Yahoo! Search**]- [|search.yahoo.com] __ 6,450,000 (Kathy) __Now try searching for the same subject as a phrase, enclosed in quotes: 12. ASSIGNMENT: using the search box on the search engine :
 * "Connecticut Compromise"** How many? _
 * 16,400** for **"[|Connecticut] [|Compromise]"**. - Kati Knaub
 * Connecticut Compromise** How many? _
 * "Connecticut Compromise"** How many? ___48,800 - Carole Meier__
 * [|AltaVista] ** http://www.altavista.com/
 * Connecticut Compromise** How many? ___7,220,000 Laura Nicholson__

Now try searching for the same subject as a phrase, enclosed in quotes: Search engines use location and frequency of keywords when ranking web pages. If keywords appear in headlines or close to the top of the page, it is ranked higher than if the keywords appear lower in the page. Search Engines will analyze how often keywords appear in relationship to other words in the web page. Those with higher frequency often are deemed more relevant. - searchenginewatch.com - DeAnn VanHouten
 * "Connecticut Compromise"** How many?__ 48,400 - DeAnn VanHouten
 * 13. HOW DO SEARCH ENGINES RANK WEB PAGES?**
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Answer the question and put the web site after your answer and your name
Try finding answers to these questions by browsing directories, using search engines, or even using the links to different web sites found in your documents that were downloaded for the first class.
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17. Find out which Milwaukee County Parks have tennis courts and which ones are lighted?
== 25 parks have tennis courts for a total of 130 courts in all but only only the following ones are lighted by electricity Dineen, Humboldt, Jackson, Kosciuszko, Lake, McCarty, McKinley,Noyeo, Sheridan, Sherman. The other ones are lighted by sun light so hurrry up! (Laura Nicholson) ==

== 26. Find a home remedy for getting rid of fruit flies. Fruit flies love beer and wine so pour some into a dish and leave it on your counter or can also cover the dish with plastic wrap and poke tiny holes in it. The fruit flies go in but can't get out. - [|www.ehow.com/how_2072487_flies_easy_cheap_safe_clean.html] - Carole Meier ==

== 28. How many words are there in the English language? There is no single sensible answer to this question. It is impossible to count the number of words in a language, because it is so hard to decide what counts as a word. Is dog one word, or two (a noun meaning 'a kind of animal', and a verb meaning 'to follow persistently')?The Second Edition of the //Oxford English Dictionary// contains full entries for 171,476 words in current use, and 47,156 obsolete words. - askoxford.com - DeAnn VanHouten ==

==// 29. //// Who are the KNIGHTS OF THE GOLDEN CIRCLE || || The **Knights** of the **Golden** **Circle** (KGC) was a secret society originally founded to promote the interests of the Southern United States. ask.com - Kati || //==

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