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## Web Search and Evaluation

### Google Search:

*What would you query to see how many pages on the English Wikipedia site contain the exact phrase “Northeastern University”? How many results did you get?*

To see how many pages on the English Wikipedia site contain the exact phrase "Northeastern University", one would have to go on Google and search site:en.wikipedia.org "Northeastern University". By searching for this on the Google search engine you would get about **4,920** results.


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*What would you query to see web pages about the skate fish without mention of the phrase “ice rink”?*

To see web pages about the skate fish without the mention of the phrase "ice rink", one would have to go on Google and search the skate fish -"ice rink", resulting in about 21,800,000 results.


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*What would you query to see web pages about the Northeastern Huskies from the first day of 2001 through the last day of 2002?*

To see web pages about the Northeastern Huskies from the first day of 2001 through the last day of 2002, one would have to go on Google and search Northeastern Huskies, click on tools, select custom range and select January 1st, 2001 to December 31st, 2002. This would result in about 352 search results.


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#### *Top Image of the Exact Phrase "Penguin Pair" with a "Creative Commons" Usage Right:*


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#### *Find a web page of questionable credibility and apply some of the criteria discussed by Valenza and Berkley Library.*

There is a webpage called [Empire News](empirenews.net) which appears to be a reliable news website at first sight until one actually analyzes it. Joey Valenza states, "We were guaranteed a free press, We were not guaranteed a neutral or a true press". This website is a great example of this because although it seems like a reliable news source, all the information on it is false. It would be very easy for a reader to come across one of these news and believe it before digging into it.

For example, one of the news on this website states, "Michelle Obama Files For Divorce After Shocking Revelation; Barack Obama Admits: ‘I’m Gay!’".


To me, this seemed completely fake but I was shocked to see some people in the comments had believed it.




After reading the article and looking through the comments under the news thread, I decided to use one of Valenza's Rules of thumb that states one should check the About and About me pages. This website's About page states, "Empire News is intended for entertainment purposes only. Our website and social media content uses only fictional names, except in cases of public figure and celebrity parody or satirization". This page seems to have tricked some people into believing this fake news because some people didn't evaluate the source. By using Berkley Library's guide to evaluating sources it would have been very easy to realize that this source has no credibility.

Berkley Library's quick guide says that when you encounter a source you should consider who the author is, where it was published, and if sources were cited. It is clear that this source is not credible because there is no information on the author, the website where it was published states that it is for entertainment purposes only, and there were no sources that were cited.

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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?*

Claim (A) is not reliable since the claim was not backed up by a credible source. The source that claims that Joseph Reagle worked at the World Wide Web Consortium is a self-published source. THe English Wikipedia states that self-published sources are usually not reliable.

Claim (B) is not reliable because it is not backed up by any source. Also, the sources that claim that Joseph Reagle wrote this book do not state that his book was "bestselling". In order for this claim to be valid, there must be a reliable source that backs up this claim.

In addition to this, the third source on this Wikipedia page has a 404- Page not found error. I would suggest making the Wikipedia page up to date and finding reliable sources to back up claims (A) and claim (B)

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*According to its history, when was this page **first** created?*

This page was first created on August 1st, 2011 by user Tom Morris.