# Web Search & Evaluation

## Google Search

To get results for English Wikipedia pages with the exact phrase "Northeastern University", this is what to search: "Northeastern University" site:en.wikipedia.org

In total, there are 4,890 results. (Fun fact: I'm actually cited on two of these. The pages for former Northeastern athletes Skylar Fontaine and Shawn Occeus each include citations from articles I wrote)

To find results for skate fish without the phrase "ice rink", this is what to search: skate fish -"ice rink"

To find pages about the Northeastern Huskies from 2001 to 2002, I searched for Northeastern Huskies and then customized the date range to search from 01/01/2001 to 12/31/2002.

This is the top result for "penguin pair" with a Creative Commons license:


## Web Credibility

The website of questionable credibility I chose was penenberg.com - the personal site of journalist Adam Penenberg. I used the criteria from the Berkeley reading to determine its credibility. The author is Adam Penenberg, and he used the site to share work that he had done. It was created to share his work, and with the intended audience of potential employers or people interested in his work, as most journalists' personal sites are. What makes this slightly uncredible is that it is published via WordPress, a service where anyone can create a site. That makes it difficult to take it at face value considering someone could be pretending to be Penenberg. The site has not been updated since 2013, and mainly features Penenberg's work and updates from the years leading up to 2013. The sources used are articles that Penenberg wrote - there isn't much to cite, there are just links to these pages.

The Valenza reading recommends checking the author's "About" page - Penenberg's is filled with accurate information about his career, lending it credibility.

Based on the criteria it appears credible - there is a *small* chance someone was pretending to be Penenberg and created this site, but if that were the case, they did not do anything maliciously in his name.

## Wikipedia Evaluation

On Professor Reagle's Wikipedia page, both those claims need to be adjusted and supported. The claim that the book is "bestselling" needs attribution to some source that can confirm that it was, in fact, bestselling. The claim of working at the World Wide Web Consortium needs to be updated because currently, it is attributed to a personal site. Under Wikipedia's guidelines, it does not accept sitations from original research - it must come from a reliable source. Not to say your personal site isn't "reliable", it's just that it would be more easily proven correct if the link was to a staff list for the World Wide Web Consortium.

The page was first created on August 1, 2011.