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# Web Search and Evaluation

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Google has become the world's most used and valued search engine, and it has not just done by giving you thousands of results of the topic you requested; however; by also allowing users to carefully make advanced searches and give them the freedom to choose how they like their web search results.

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## Google Search

- **What would you query to see how many pages on the English Wikipedia site mention “Northeastern University”? How many results did you get?**
- Using the following search criteria - '"Northeastern University" site:en.wikipedia.org'
- Got About 5,310 results in 0.73 seconds
- **What would you query to see Web pages about the skate fish but no pages about an “ice rink”?**
- In [Google's Advanced Search](https://www.google.com/advanced_search), go to 'All These Words' query and put in Skate Fish however put Ice Rink in 'none of these words' query.
- You could also do this by searching 'Skate Fish -"Ice Rink"'
- **What would you query to see Web pages about the Northeastern Huskies from the first day of 2001 through the last day of 2002?**
- Northeastern Huskies daterange:2001-01-01..2002-12-31
- Or I could go to the Tools section under the search bar then Instead of Any Time, keep the custom time range to when I want my search queries.

**Find me the top image of a pair of penguins with a “free to use, share or modify, even commercially” license, sometimes referred to as “labeled for reuse with modification.”**

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## Web Credibility

- **Find a Web page of questionable credibility and apply some of the criteria discussed by Valenza and Berkley Library.**
- [65 Mind-Bending Photos That Require an explanantion](https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewziegler/confusing-photos?origin=web-hf)
- This Article contains several illusion-types photos which makes you look twice
- These do not seem credible to me at all (most probably photoshopped)
- Possibly Done to increase views, get more advertisement money, or second guess the readers to tune into their media outlets even more
- No credible citations, sources to the pictures are there but mostly from random sites and reddit threads, which may not be trusted.

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## Wikipedia Evaluation

- **A version of the “Joseph Reagle” Wikipedia article stated (a) I worked at the World Wide Web Consortium and (b) my book Good Faith Collaboration was “bestselling.” How does these claims relate to the policy of Wikipedia:Verifiability? Would you suggest any changes to the page?**
- The Wikipedia Page makes both claims (a) and (b).
- (a) is definitely undisputed and holds true to Wikipedia's reliability claims. This is because it is addressed through the w3c webpage itself and is cited in the wikipedia page.
- (b) might not be fully true because the claims have been made without any accurate sales data or width distribution which would suggest the reliability of being a "best seller". The book definitely does exist though.
- Changes could possibly be to change the technology review web link with a one that works because the current one says that the page is not found.
- **According to its history, when was this article first created?**
- 1st August 2011.