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# Web Search and Evaluation 
### Gabriella Playa
### COMM 1255
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## **Google Search**
1. **"Northeastern University"**
I used the refined search symbol: ""Northeastern University" site:English Wikipedia." I ended up getting 4,990 results once I narrowed down my search. 

![](https://i.imgur.com/5egqGK1.png)


2. **"Skate Fish - Ice Rink"** 
- Google Advanced Search 
- ["skate fish" - "ice rink"](https://www.google.com/search?as_q=%22skate+fish%22+&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=%22ice+rink%22&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=&cr=&as_qdr=all&as_sitesearch=&as_occt=any&safe=images&as_filetype=&tbs=)
- [skate fish - "ice rink"](https://www.google.com/search?q=skate+fish+-+%22ice+rink%22&oq=skate+fish+-+%22ice+rink%22&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60.8843j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8)


5. **Northeastern Huskies**
- From the first day of 2001 to the last day of 2002. 
I used Advanced Google Search to search for the Northeastern Huskies. It was condensed down to sports content, rather than the academic content I got when I looked up "Northeastern University."
![](https://i.imgur.com/9QO1D6U.png)

4. **Penguin Pair**

 <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/davidstanleytravel/15798589947" title="King Penguin Couple"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/8646/15798589947_7b6d029ae8_z.jpg" width="640" height="480" alt="King Penguin Couple"></a>

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## **Web Credibility**
["The FDA Urges Against The Dangers Of Cooking Chicken In NyQuil"](https://www.delish.com/food-news/a41300303/nyquil-chicken-fda-warning/?utm_medium=social-media&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=socialflowTWDEL&src=socialflowTW)
One of the first guidelines from Berkley Library is to check who published the article. The article was published by "delish", which appears to be a "how-to" cooking and food website filled with multiple types of articles concernining cooking tips, recipe ideas, food trends, and more. The person who wrote the article is Danielle Harling, a lifestyle writer. This interested me because I had heard of this "trend" a few times, but the way it was written about in the article made it seem like it was almost an epidemic that was killing everyone who partook in it. 

Valenza also says thar we must identify the *type* of writing that we are reading. Danielle states that the point of the article is to summarize a somewhat dangerous trend, which the FDA gas supposedly issued another warning against. It's a short article, but Danielle quotes a lot of the FDA's message warning teens and those participating in the trend that boiling any medicine can harm your lungs and allow high levels of the drug to enter your system through the vapor from the NyQuil. 

I followed another one of Valenza's tips and triangulated my search. I went on [Snopes](https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/09/22/nyquil-chicken-challenge/) and looked up information about the so-called "NyQuil Chicken Challenge." Snopes states they haven't seen evidence that the "trend" actually exists extended beyond a few meme posts. They included a few screenshots with silly tweets about "NyQuil Chicken", and included the same message from the FDA that "delish" includded in their article. 

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## **Wikipedia Evaluation**
 
 This page in terms of the "Wikipedia Verifiability", each one of the claims made about Professor Reagle are verifiable through the resources provided at the bottom of the page. You can see that he has published a book titled "Good Faith Collaboration", worked at W3C, etc..

The first change I would recommend on the Wikipedia page is a little misspelling I noticed on the word "focused", spelled like "focussed" within the article. It was a small change to make, but since it was the first sentence on the page I noticed it. I would also say there should be more sources included to support that what is written on the page is true. The writing is very concise and not much elaboration is provided, making it look more unreliable. 

- The oldest version of the webpage was created/edited on August 1, 2011. 



