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# Web Search and Evaluation

## Google Search

After reading the articles, I learned to clarify my Google search skills and use Google's [Advanced Search](https://www.google.com/advanced_search) feature. 

If I were to query how many pages on the English Wikipedia site mentioned "Northeastern University" I would ensure it looks like [this](https://i.imgur.com/LcELw44.png). The most crucial parts of filling it out is the "exact word or phrase" line and the "site or domain" line. I ended up receiving 63,400 results results. This means that "Northeastern University" has been specifically mentioned on the English Wikipedia site 63,400 results times. 

If I were to search up web pages about the skate fish but not an "ice rink" it would look like [this](https://i.imgur.com/N0dDPNm.png). In this case, I only need to use the top areas and fill in "this exact word or phrase" and "none of these words". I received 82,300 results for this, possibly indicating that words like "skate" and "fish" can be very frequently mentioned on a variety of sites. 

If I were to find pages about Northeastern Huskies from the first day of 2001 to the last day of 2002 it would look like [this](https://i.imgur.com/ZTuYKyY.png). 

The top image of "a pair of penguins" with a "free to use, share or modify, even commercially" license is [this](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/00_2304_Eselspinguine_in_der_Antarktis.jpg/800px-00_2304_Eselspinguine_in_der_Antarktis.jpg). 

## Web Credibility

A web page I thought had questionable credibility was [this one](https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-recorded-51-homicides-last-month-amid-crime-surge-the-most-in-4-years-report), which talks about rising crime in Chicago. Using the Rules of Thumb mentioned in Valenza's work, the URL looks accurate and is from a notable news network; the story is written well, but I have researched elsewhere and can conclude that the source may have a right-leaning bias. The article mentions a report from Chicago police. There is no reason to doubt this report, and it matches up to official reports given in the last two years. Going through the six main guides from Berkeley, most either overlap with Valenza's article or are quite obvious, like relevance. This article could be relevant to those in cities, or those interested in this topic. 

## Wikipedia Evaluation

When looking at the ["Joseph Reagle"](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joseph_Reagle&oldid=620740325#cite_note-2) page on Wikipedia, I see that the article states he worked at the World Wide Web consortium. I think this lines up with the [Wikipedia:Verifiability](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability) page as the "creator of the work" is included as a reliable source, so it would make sense that their website is too. However, the claim that Reagle's book is bestselling is not reinforced by any verifiable information. 

This article was first created by [Tom Morris] in 2011 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tom_Morris). HE is a Wikipedia administrator who has created at least 130 articles. 
