# Web search and evaluation

### Google Search

Because of the thousands of results that pop up when searching one given topic, Google has made a guide on how to “refine your search” – a way to have your search results be more catered to what you’re looking for.

This is what I searched up to look for the words "Northeastern University" on wikipedia.org.


I ended up getting 11,500 results. This is much less than the 18,500,000 search results I get when I just type in "Northeastern University" in the Google search bar.

When typing in skate fish without mentioning the phrase "ice rink" advanced search by Google narrowed down the search results to just 124,000.

And when looking for web pages about the Northeastern Huskies from the date January 1st, 2001 - December 31st, 2002, this is what I got:


### Web Credibility

The internet is a large and mysterious place. Some may think the internet is scary. Thousands of things can go wrong while scrolling through the internet. One wrong click and your computer can get highjacked, information can get stolen, blackmailing can occur, etc. People also think the internet is confusing and hard to use, which I can sympathize with. As someone who has grown up in a post-internet world, I easily judge people for being technologically inept. But thinking about how far this technology has come and thinking about things that I find confusing about the internet I understand how and why there could be so much confusion with things about the internet. One of the examples of this confusion is in the article [“Truth, Truthiness, Triangulation: A News Literacy Toolkit for a ‘Post-Truth’ World.” ](https://blogs.slj.com/neverendingsearch/2016/11/26/truth-truthiness-triangulation-and-the-librarian-way-a-news-literacy-toolkit-for-a-post-truth-world/)that we read. There is fake news all over the internet and it is hard to decipher between what is real and what is fake sometimes. There are things out there such as hoax sites, satirical sites, and edited images so you really need to be careful when getting information from the internet. For example, [This article](https://www.theonion.com/woman-pepper-spraying-assailant-makes-sure-to-save-enou-1849434726) by The Onion may seem like a normal news article, but when looking deeper into this source, this is what comes up.

As you can see, this is a satirical news source so most if not everything on this site is mad for entertainment. This shows that while browsing the web, we need to take everything with a grain of salt and make sure that we use trusted sources when getting our information.

### Wikipedia evaluation

In my opinion, there is no verifiability on the Joseph M. Reagle Wikipedia page. Although all of this information on the page may be true, there is no way to verify the information unless we go up to a verified source such as Professor Reagle. If I were to make any changes to the page, I would add more information to the page. I would add how long of a member Joseph Reagle was of the World Wide Web Consortium. I would also more details about being listed as one among Technology Reviews. Everything on the page seems a little bit blunt and I think some more detail would not hurt here. It is said in the page history that the date of the page creation was August 1st, 2011.