Tutorial task week 4

Scavenger Hunt Answer these questions without using Google, and then write your answers in an entry in your blog. Make sure to reference the source where you found your answer.

I used www.Altavista.com to find the answers to these questions:

1. What is the weight of the world's biggest pumpkin?
1131 Pounds
2. What is the best way (quickest, most reliable) to contact Grant Hackett?
He can be contacted by mail Posting to the Miami Swimming ClubPO BOX 2461BURLEIGH QLD 4220
3. What is the length of a giraffe's tongue?
A giraffes tongue is 18 inches long.
4. How would you define the word "ontology"? In your own words, what does it really mean ?
Theoretics that studies human nature and existence
5. What was David Cronenberg's first feature film?
Transfer, released in 1966.
6. When was the original "Hacker's Manifesto" written?
The Conscience of a Hacker (a.k.a. The Hacker Manifesto) is a small essay written January 8, 1986.
7.Why do all phone numbers in Hollywood films start with "555"?
555 was used as a prefix to prevent actors etc, being rung up and harassed. Movie makers were encouraged to use the 555 prefix for the actors safety.
8. What is the cheapest form of travel from Crete to Rhodes?
Row row row your boat...
9. What song was top of the Australian Pop Charts this week in 1965?
The beatles Rock and roll music.
10. Which Brisbane band was (still is?) Stephen Stockwell a member of?
The black assassin

More questions to answer:

• A search engine is a program designed to help find information stored on a computer system such as the World Wide Web, inside a corporate or proprietary network or a personal computer.
• Serach engines rank their stuff after the key word you write in the search box and to how many links the stuff that comes up have about that. What comes up is not neccesarily what you are searhing for bacause you get the pages with the most links, not the ones with the most correst answer to your request. This is also what makes one page more "useful" than a nother one. Always check your references and how correct the material you get is compared to other stuff you might find.
• I always use google, yahoo, or wikipedia cause it is easy to find what you are searching for and it has references that I can check against other material to see if it is ringht and important to what I need to find out. I am just not very familiar with other engines so thats why i use the ones i use, and i am satisfied most of the time using them.
• "Aussie search engine 'wows' Google"http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/aussie-search-engine-wows-google/2006/05/29/114875487917

"Google and Dell, eBay and Yahoo couple up http://au.news.yahoo.com/060529/20/z5ou.html

"Google knocks Microsoft off Dell PCs" http://www.arnnet.com.au/index.php/id;133336956;fp;2;fpid;1