Monday, August 3, 2009

13th Day of Class: Search Tools

Today we covered bulletin boards, first search tools, Yahoo (now powered by Bing), Google (pagerank, ads), MSN Search (now Bing), Baidu (in China),

Watched YouTube video "Microsoft Bing #2 Commercial (Cure for Search Overload Syndrome)"

Next assignment will be to put some search terms, Kale will provide, in multiple search engines and report results, ads, etc... differences.

Assignment 10: Delicious









I have created a Delicious account. =)

Flickr.com images ( Search Criteria )
1. A Hawaiian sunrise ( Turtle Bay, Hawaii )
2. A pumpkin bigger than a person ( Giant Pumpkin )
3. Canadian farm? ( Kallie Sophie )

digg.com high score that doesn't deserve it
Title: (307 diggs today) How are you? You know... just hangin
It's a picture of a goat hanging from a telephone wire. It's a crude picture, somewhat strange, which is why it is getting diggs, probably by a lot of kids.

What are some pros and cons of social bookmarking?
Pro's: Easily share websites and interesting information with people who have similar interests.
Con's: There's too many links sometimes and there are times they don't work because a change in a page.